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Meanings of cerement in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pall"
Examples for "pall"
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.
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
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 cerement in English
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-erasedher 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.