cerecloth
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He was dead; and she saw him lying straight and cold in a padded coffin, with his hands crossed and cerecloth stiffly tying up his jaws.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
It dropped the cerecloth from its fleshless face And smiled on me, with a remembered grace That, like the noontide, lit the gloaming's gloom.
From Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
I cut out of this cerecloth a small square the size of the Bee's thorax; and I insert the magnetised point through a few threads of the material.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
And his grave shall be 'Neath the chestnut tree, Where he met my sister many years ago; Leave that tress of hair On his bosom there— Wrap the cerecloth round him!
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The sepulchre is open, guards asleep or stretching themselves, and yawning all round; and childish young angels look reverently into the empty grave, rearranging the cerecloths, and trying to roll back the stone lid.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
