Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.
1A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave.
2They fold away from off her like the cerements of death.
3The moonlight, falling through the thinning forest, showed her white cerements.
4Sears and John, in those cerements of the grave, with those lifeless faces.
5There are the remains of a very impressive figure, apparently rising from her cerements.
6The world emerged as from shrouds and cerements.
7Young Cheops up stairs, snug in his cerements.
8Mr. Pett emerged reluctantly from the cerements.
9London flung off her cerements-erasedher plague-marks.
10She was swathed about in cerements.
11The tents were like black cerements.
12His large frame seemed boneless, and, except for the cerements of his mud-stiffened clothing, was limp and sodden.
13Are but the cerements of Me.
14Except by their cerements, and the inscriptions on the cases, who could tell which had been the greater?
15Nobody has dug him up, unwound his cerements, or photographed him, and his ornaments have not been stolen.
16Genius shines through all cerements.
Translations for cerement