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Meanings of winding-sheets in English
Usage of winding-sheets in English
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.
6
Then lap they them very carefully in white skins, and so roll them in mats for their winding-sheets.
7
Then lappe they them very carefully in white skins, and so rowle them in mats for their winding-sheets.
8
You see them in their winding-sheets, and they are low down if it will only be rather soon.
9
Marry come up, with her winding-sheets!
10
I passed a miserable night, dreaming of graves, winding-sheets, and funeral-torches, from which I only awoke to receive the morning's despatches.
11
The whirling men and women went round and round, with white faces like the faces of the dead, and bodies robed in winding-sheets.
12
Also there appeared to me my own sister Bayley and three of her children in winding-sheets, and told me that Goody Nurse had murdered them.
13
I could even make out the grinning lean letters of " winding- sheets to be had at Miss Andersen's" on the right of it.