cerecloth
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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 shut the drawer again hurriedly, and that doll in its silver paper cerecloth haunted me all night.
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
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
It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.”—
From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
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
When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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