grave-clothes
Example Sentences
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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
Peter alone was moved to run to the sepulchre, where he found the empty tomb and the cast-off grave-clothes, and "departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass."
From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lisle, Lionel
Lo, for no noise or light of thunder Shall these grave-clothes be rent in sunder; He that hath taken, shall he give?
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Hush!—was not that low rumbling in the north which men call thunder, the voice of the Giant of Mount Liberty turning suddenly in his grave-clothes to answer the appeal?
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry
His rising would be as the awaking of a man from deep sleep, scarcely knowing what he was doing, tripping and stumbling in the grave-clothes and wondering at the crowd.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus
