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Meanings of white shroud in English

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Usage of white shroud in English
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For Owein, the white shroud that crept over the landscape brought vision.
Celtic fire
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He saw her lying in an open coffin, wrapped in a white shroud.
Casanova's Homecoming
3
Our helmeted leather-furred flying suits were soon shapeless with a gathering white shroud.
Beyond the Vanishing Point
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A great white shroud covered the corpse, closely outlining some of its contours.
Camille
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Mehsud's body was wrapped in a white shroud with only his head exposed.
Reuters
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His breath formed a white shroud in the air before him.
The grail king
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The buildings we drive past look like dark figures peeking through a white shroud.
Allegiant
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Under its white shroud, how all the valley lived.
Hillsboro People
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Then something curled up past us, like a white shroud, and shrieked as it went up.
Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
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We stood in silence while the pure snow fell and laid its white shroud upon the grave.
Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
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In that mystic light her white shroud seemed diaphanous, and she appeared like a spirit of power.
The Lady of the Shroud
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A white shroud covered the nakedness of the world, and already ice was spread out over the waters.
The Heart of Unaga
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Corpse "enwrapped in white shroud of feathery snowflakes".
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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A crowd of men lifted the body of a women, wrapped in a white shroud, into an ambulance.
Reuters
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A shriek inhuman, vibrating and sudden, pierced like a sharp dart the white shroud of that land of sorrow.
Tales of Unrest
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The men heard the cry, and ceasing their awestruck talk, looked eagerly at the fast-widening rifts in the white shroud.
Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell
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White shroud across language varieties
United Kingdom
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