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Meanings of black shroud in English

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Usage of black shroud in English
1
Here Alick, show this gentleman in the black shroud to the gentlemen's dressing-room.
Cruel As The Grave
2
And its beam was abruptly stopped by a heavy black shroud.
In the Dark
3
As though caught upon a blast, the black shroud flew toward the Keeper-enveloped it.
The Metal Monster
4
Night had fallen thick and heavy from the mountains, like a dark, black shroud.
The Way of a Man
5
The sea grew indefinite in the dark,-asindefinite as the undulations of a black shroud.
Dan Merrithew
6
It was a long, black shroud standing erect, and beneath which something could be felt moving.
Notre-Dame de Paris
7
Phoria's body had been rescued and lay in state in her pavilion under a black shroud.
Casket of Souls
8
Why was I alone when all London was lying in state, and in its black shroud?
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
9
Her breast was so white; her hands were like marble hands, parting a black shroud upon it.
Whosoever Shall Offend
10
The box was covered with a black shroud and looked big enough for at least two bodies.
The red pyramid
11
The ground dropped away below, transformed into a rumpled black shroud rent by jagged holes and cracks of flame.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
12
One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.
Les Misérables
13
Your children, your children's children, a terrible procession that stretches out and out, marching under a black shroud, unknowing, unknown!
Birthright: A Novel
14
Her mother was folded in a black shroud, looking formless as death, like very death, save that death sheds no tears.
Vittoria — Volume 4
15
The low scud clouds travelling with incredible velocity blotted out the blue sky to the east and darkness fell like a black shroud.
John Henry Smith / A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life
16
She was still in her dinner-gown of black satin, but it was soaked through with the rain and hung about her like a black shroud.
The Vanished Messenger
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United Kingdom
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