How To Use Cerecloth In A Sentence

  • The next day the miraculous body was shewn to the multitude, though it is honestly stated by the chronicler that the whole of it, including the face, was covered with linen, the only flesh visible being through a chink left in the cerecloths at the neck.
  • cerement," the cloth dipped "in melting wax, in which dead bodies were enfolded when embalmed" (_Hamlet_, act i.sc. 4), but the sense of the passage seems rather to point to "cerecloth," "searcloth," a plaster to cover up a wound. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
  • Early on the second day Morgiana went with veiled face to one Baba Mustafa, a tailor well shotten in years whose craft was to make shrouds and cerecloths, and as soon as she saw him open his shop she gave him a gold piece and said, "Do thou bind a bandage over thine eyes and come along with me. Tehran Winter
  • The specimen I enclose, wrapped in a golden cerecloth, and with the remains of his last dinner in the proper region, will prove to you the heights to which the creative power of the true artist may soar.
  • Above her, stern but kindly, hovered an angel, dressed in the traditional cerecloths of angelhood. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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  • Twere damnation To think so base a thought; it were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

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