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

For when ye break the cloven earth With your young laughter and endearment, No blossomy carillon 'tis of mirth To me; I see my slaughtered joy Bursting its cerement.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Three cold, bright moons have marched and wheeled;     And the white cerement that revealed     A Figure stretched upon a Shield,   Is turned to verdure; and the Land is now one mighty battle-field.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Carman, Bliss

The prison garb clothed her like a weed; she had the trick of wearing clothes so that they draped the figure, not concealed it, were as wax upon it, not a cerement.

From The Spanish Jade by Hyde, William Henry