Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.
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 .
6 The world emerged as from shrouds and cerements .
7 Young Cheops up stairs, snug in his cerements .
8 Mr. Pett emerged reluctantly from the cerements .
9 London flung off her cerements - erased her plague-marks.
10 She was swathed about in cerements .
11 The tents were like black cerements .
12 His large frame seemed boneless, and, except for the cerements of his mud-stiffened clothing, was limp and sodden.
13 Are but the cerements of Me.
14 Except by their cerements , and the inscriptions on the cases, who could tell which had been the greater?
15 Nobody has dug him up, unwound his cerements , or photographed him, and his ornaments have not been stolen.
16 Genius shines through all cerements .
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