cerement

Example Sentences

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“Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?”

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement.

From Time Magazine Archive

All then shall speak of me: The tyranny of silence is not lasting, And, though events be hidden, just men's groans80 Will burst all cerement, even a living grave's!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

The ghost-witness of it all, The clock brings its proofs; Moments melt into moments, Like notes of sad music, Like a white cerement.

From Sandhya Songs of Twilight by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal

The best I have within me declares that the fleshly wrapping becomes at the end but a cumbering cerement; that through life, it is a spirit-vault.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar