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Meanings of pall in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "shroud"
Examples for "shroud"
1
I'm not sure who said 'there are no pockets in a shroud'.
2
When the bands of the shroud have been loosened the people say:-
3
The sky was wrapped in its evening shroud of deep, mysterious darkness.
4
The shroud application represents one of the first, practical uses for FALCON.
5
My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
1
A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave.
2
They fold away from off her like the cerements of death.
3
The moonlight, falling through the thinning forest, showed her white cerements.
4
Sears and John, in those cerements of the grave, with those lifeless faces.
5
There are the remains of a very impressive figure, apparently rising from her cerements.
1
His head was shaved, and his body wrapped in a dark winding-sheet.
2
The mist wrapped them like a winding-sheet, and froze as it fell.
3
The Abbey of Saint Cornille sheltered, perhaps, the holy winding-sheet of Christ.
4
He was as a mystery in a winding-sheet, crowned with a halo.
5
I should stand waiting to see you come out in a winding-sheet.
Usage of pall in anglès
1
A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2
A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3
There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4
The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5
The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
6
On the mountain the black pall was conspicuous against the star-spangled sky.
7
The appeal of that seemed to pall in the course of eternity.
8
Every star in the heavens was hid away as by a thick-pall.
9
The following gentlemen were designated to act as pall-bearers on the occasion:
10
That book spreads the pall of superstition over the colleges and schools.
11
Over the ruins of the elevators hung a pall of heavy smoke.
12
The morning sun arching through the clouds cast a strange, yellowish pall.
13
And to whom do wonders pall more rapidly than the very young?
14
The great sky-high pall of yellow had moved on to the north.
15
The stillness of solitary death clung as a pall about the place.
16
Smoke and the fumes of gasolene hung like a pall above it.
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Translations for pall
català
Pall through the time
Pall across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common