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

V. Alas, alas, the children! 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 The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Now is the grass all withered up and dead,     And shrouded in its cerement of the snow; Now the enfeebled Sun goes soon to bed,     And rises late and carries his head low.

From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.