How To Use cerement In A Sentence
- 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
- One seems to see him, a languid-limbed "revenant," with heavy-lidded drowsy eyes and voluptuous lips, emerging all swathed and wrapped in costly cerements out of the tomb of some Babylonian king. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
- I have often known him select one of the rawest and most ignorant persons in presence, and to him for the amusement of the rest, he has pretended to cause the absent to appear, the distant to draw near, and the dead themselves to burst the cerements of the grave. Count Robert of Paris
- A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave. Nevermore
- Bon j'me suis demandé quand je devrais tuer ma mere mais n'ayant pas envie de finir mes jours dans un HP (parce que sincerement si elle continue j'v la tuer sous une de mes crise de demance violente) je vais allé lui faire son repassage ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
- This was at once both good and bad for the little Emperor, good because it made the bursting of his cerement easy, bad because it made the drying of his wings slow. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
- The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.
- He approached him as if to speak; but the recluse anticipated his purpose, murmuring in stifled tones, from beneath the fold in which his head was muffled, and which sounded like a voice proceeding from the cerements of a corpse, — “Abide, abide — happy thou that mayest — the vision is not yet ended.” The Talisman
- Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form. Nevermore
- The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys. The Body-Snatcher
