Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.
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.
6Dead bodies, already stiff, lay half- buried in a winding-sheet of snow.
7Her long veil was more like a winding-sheet than a bride's wimple.
8In a few minutes it would be wrapped in its winding-sheet.
9It is the curtain to his bed of death, his winding-sheet, and grave.
10It was wrapped in an immense winding-sheet which trailed behind it.
11December and the old year died out, in a great winding-sheet of snow.
12The chief figure who haunts it is a living man in a winding-sheet.
13I rent my winding-sheet, and wrapped in it my lovely Child.
14His master is taking him off in a winding-sheet of smoke and flame.
15It is like the tears of a winding-sheet putting themselves into lifelike motion.
16It is a narrow border of good round a huge winding-sheet of evil.
Translations for winding-sheet