cerecloth

Example Sentences

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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

Within this was a wooden coffin, much decayed, and the body carefully wrapped in cerecloth, into the folds of which an unctuous matter mixed with resin had been melted, to exclude the external air.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 by Various

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 Phillpotts, Eden

Sharp are thine eyes to see a sword through all this wrappage of cerecloth; surely they be of the warrior kin.

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander