grave-clothes
Example Sentences
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Moore never drew on the spot, because "that would have been the essence of rudeness," but he remembered London's buried heroism well, in drawings of catacombish tunnels filled with mummies swaddled in grave clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remembered wondering what it would have been like to witness Jesus roll the stone away from Lazarus’s tomb and watch the dead man walk out, still wearing his grave clothes.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
And were the shrouds or grave clothes of those saints also resurrected? or did they travel about in a state of nudity?
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
Charlotte Clopton was seen leaning against the wall in her grave clothes.
From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William
