Cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
1I strewed my soul in supplication, and there was talk of winding-sheets.
2I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets.
3Many, too, began to move and throw off their winding-sheets.
4See, the pale winding-sheets gleaming in the wax-candles!
5Far off, wool-white winding-sheets of mist were lifting, lagging along the purple hills, clothed with inviolate forest.
6Then lap they them very carefully in white skins, and so roll them in mats for their winding-sheets.
7Then lappe they them very carefully in white skins, and so rowle them in mats for their winding-sheets.
8You see them in their winding-sheets, and they are low down if it will only be rather soon.
9Marry come up, with her winding-sheets!
10I passed a miserable night, dreaming of graves, winding-sheets, and funeral-torches, from which I only awoke to receive the morning's despatches.
11The whirling men and women went round and round, with white faces like the faces of the dead, and bodies robed in winding-sheets.
12Also there appeared to me my own sister Bayley and three of her children in winding-sheets, and told me that Goody Nurse had murdered them.
13I could even make out the grinning lean letters of " winding- sheets to be had at Miss Andersen's" on the right of it.
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