How To Use Cerement In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave.
Nevermore
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Spiritual bodies are subject to a process of refinement and decay; and the soul, as the winged butterfly to which it is likened, throws off its cerement and assumes a new form.
Strange Visitors
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In an early scene, Hamlet begs the ghost to tell ‘Why thy canoniz'd bones… Have burst their cerements.’
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And I'll give you ten to one I was there as well, bound in the cerement of faint rain's chill vigil.
10 Today
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There is a life-like pliability about it as it falls, and the tight cerements so define the outlines that the action makes me shudder.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Clothes which might as well have been the cerements of a corpse.
Kalooki Nights
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Thereupon his three sons got ready the funeral gear and whatever was suited to his estate for the mortuary obsequies such as cerements and other matters: they washed the corpse and enshrouded it and prayed over it: then, having committed it to the earth they returned to their palaces where the Wazirs and the
Arabian nights. English
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More dramatic yet is the tomb of General William Hargrave, also in Westminster Abbey, by Louis - Francois Roubiliac, in which the deceased is shown breaking free of his cerements, apparently already confident of his salvation.
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Annette, prepared the corpse for interment; and, having wrapt it in cerements, and covered it with a winding-sheet, they watched beside it, till past midnight, when they heard the approaching footsteps of the men, who were to lay it in its earthy bed.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Although it's dressing the corpse in borrowed cerements, I have to say this is almost a convincing reason to re-read "The Outsider.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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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
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And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter -- an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face.
The River and I
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Unfortunately, there are no pockets in the cerements, so I can't bring anything with me to the other side.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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To be cured we we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead.
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The time is not far distant," he said in a letter to John Adams, "at which we are to repose in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall love and never lose again.
History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
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Fallen, she was now the ghost, dressed in cerement cloth, as vacant as the Mary Celeste.
Mordicai: crown me king!
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They are like dead walls and the place they enclose like a vault, and the itinerant drab like a thing in drab cerements (they trail the dust) that ought to be dead wailing for entrance to things, tombed in those walls, that are dead.
This Freedom
