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 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
Like the embalmment and the tomb, the cerements and the coffin were more or less costly, according to the rank and wealth of the deceased.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
"Incidens": Young reader, you must go back more than a century to understand the "pathology" that is wrapped up in that word like a mummy in its cerements.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
