Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.
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Examples for "pall "
Examples for "pall "
1 A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2 A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3 There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall .
4 The pall - bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5 The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall - like .
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 A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave.
2 They fold away from off her like the cerements of death.
3 The moonlight, falling through the thinning forest, showed her white cerements .
4 Sears and John, in those cerements of the grave, with those lifeless faces.
5 There are the remains of a very impressive figure, apparently rising from her cerements .
1 His head was shaved, and his body wrapped in a dark winding - sheet .
2 The mist wrapped them like a winding - sheet , and froze as it fell.
3 The Abbey of Saint Cornille sheltered, perhaps, the holy winding - sheet of Christ.
4 He was as a mystery in a winding - sheet , crowned with a halo.
5 I should stand waiting to see you come out in a winding - sheet .
6 Dead bodies, already stiff, lay half- buried in a winding - sheet of snow.
7 Her long veil was more like a winding - sheet than a bride's wimple.
8 In a few minutes it would be wrapped in its winding - sheet .
9 It is the curtain to his bed of death, his winding - sheet , and grave.
10 It was wrapped in an immense winding - sheet which trailed behind it.
11 December and the old year died out, in a great winding - sheet of snow.
12 The chief figure who haunts it is a living man in a winding - sheet .
13 I rent my winding - sheet , and wrapped in it my lovely Child.
14 His master is taking him off in a winding - sheet of smoke and flame.
15 It is like the tears of a winding - sheet putting themselves into lifelike motion.
16 It is a narrow border of good round a huge winding - sheet of evil.
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