grave-clothes

Example Sentences

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There could be no mistaking it—it was that of Aunt Joanna, clothed in the tattered sheet that Elizabeth Hockin had allowed for her grave-clothes.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Martha helps to remove the grave-clothes, while Mary, as usual, worships the Master.

From The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Bailey, Henry Turner

The colours most approved for the grave-clothes are white and green.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

Now that we are dressed in these grave-clothes and must do bitter business, we must make up our minds to do it.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

She looks despairingly at the empty grave-clothes which so lately had held all that was dear to her in the world.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus