Usage of "winding sheet"

Значения для термина "winding sheet" отсутствуют.

Использование термина winding sheet на английском

The tall and thin one spread the winding sheet over the bran. 
 L'Assommoir 

I can understand it, of course: What man loves his own winding sheet? 
 The lady elizabeth 

A hand projected from beneath the winding sheet and hung near the floor. 
 Les Misérables 

The gloom of the forest fell on her, mournful like a winding sheet. 
 The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows 

Above his head the sky was pale as a winding sheet. 
 The Secret of the Night 

The fog, he declared, felt like a winding sheet, enwrapping and strangling him. 
 Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography 

Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet. 
 Moby Dick 

Thirteen bodies lay stretched in a winding sheet of snow. 
 The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775... 

Sometimes they are dressed in white, sometimes in a winding sheet or burial gown. 
 John Winchester’s Journal 

Naked but for his winding sheet and his vanquished wounds? 
 The White Princess 

Her soul stirred in its despair as the dead might stir in the winding sheet. 
 A Spinner in the Sun 

The tree on top of my garage, the translucent winding sheet out on the road. 
 Back on murder 

Take a winding sheet and squeeze out the blood of the hand to dry it. 
 Book of shadows 

A young girl carried in her arms a dead child, wrapped in its little winding sheet. 
 Hyperion 

Osiris rolls in the winding sheet of the Nile (O moisture of the World!) 
 Unmanned 

You mean, you sewed up his winding sheet. 
 The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 03 

Значения термина winding sheet на английском