Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.
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Examples for "pall"
Examples for "pall"
1A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
1I'm not sure who said 'there are no pockets in a shroud'.
2When the bands of the shroud have been loosened the people say:-
3The sky was wrapped in its evening shroud of deep, mysterious darkness.
4The shroud application represents one of the first, practical uses for FALCON.
5My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
1His head was shaved, and his body wrapped in a dark winding-sheet.
2The mist wrapped them like a winding-sheet, and froze as it fell.
3The Abbey of Saint Cornille sheltered, perhaps, the holy winding-sheet of Christ.
4He was as a mystery in a winding-sheet, crowned with a halo.
5I should stand waiting to see you come out in a winding-sheet.
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