Cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
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Examples for "shroud "
Examples for "shroud "
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 The body has been undressed and properly laid out in grave clothes .
2 No bones, no mummified flesh, no shrivelled grave clothes , and definitely no Joe.
3 What of the folded grave clothes , and the Forty Days?
4 And the mildewed grave clothes are so offensively odorous.
5 He immediately returned the men to Egypt, each provided with his grave clothes , and wrote: To Pharaoh!
1 I strewed my soul in supplication, and there was talk of winding - sheets .
2 I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding - sheets .
3 Many, too, began to move and throw off their winding - sheets .
4 See, the pale winding - sheets gleaming in the wax-candles!
5 Far off, wool-white winding - sheets of mist were lifting, lagging along the purple hills, clothed with inviolate forest.
1 I took dark winding - cloths and bound them about my head, covering the hair and forehead, all the while watching the effect produced in the mirror.
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