cerements

Example Sentences

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They had probably been attracted by the smell of the mummies and their cerements, that lay strewn about the tent.

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2020

At length the pair return, and when Sirki tries to frighten Grazia back to mundanity by revealing himself in his habitual cerements, she alone of all the company shows no fear of Death.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cerements were laid out, the casket prepared for a routine political burial�this time of Premier Edgar Faure, his eight-month-old government and his policy of reform for Algeria.

From Time Magazine Archive

The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Stripped of the gauzy gewgaws of fancy with which you had complacently adorned it, it lay in its stark cerements of staring simplicity, a hard, terse, graphic, uncompromising fact.

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.