cerecloths
- plural of cerecloth.
Example Sentences
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By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
The sepulchre is open, guards asleep or stretching themselves, and yawning all round; and childish young angels look reverently into the empty grave, rearranging the cerecloths, and trying to roll back the stone lid.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram
When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.
From The Red Planet by Locke, William John
