grave-clothes
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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
From the feet to the breast, utterly hiding the grave clothes, and tastefully grouped about his last pillow, were the most beautiful exotic flowers I ever beheld.
From A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by Wheelhouse, M. V.
Then came her women with low sobbing and laid her on her bridal bed and began to make ready the grave clothes.
From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge
