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

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

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

They are seeking Death in life, as best to have; They are binding up their hearts away from breaking With a cerement from the grave.

From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard