grave-clothes
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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 Marcus Dods
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 Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
They are bound hand and foot as with grave-clothes.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
The raising of Lazarus, who appears at a door in his grave-clothes, while Christ with a wand stands before it.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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