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Meanings of winding-sheets in inglês
Synonyms
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 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.
Usage of winding-sheets in inglês
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.