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Sad bourne of all his toils—with all his band To sleep, wrecked, shroudless, on a savage strand!

From Laperouse by Scott, Ernest

It was a choice between life, hope, and her clinging babes, or a lonely vigil by a dying husband, and an unknown, shroudless death in the wintry mountains.

From History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra by McGlashan, C. F. (Charles Fayette)

Dirge for abbess laid in shroud Sweepeth o'er the shroudless dead, Page or lady, as we said, With the dews upon her head, All as sad if not as loud.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett