But he did not provide rugs and pillows and cerecloth for the souls he ferried across to eternity. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
No one would hide anything of value there, no matter how many folds of cerecloth were wrapped round it for protection. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
Many of the teeth remained, and the left ear, in consequence of the interposition of some unctuous matter between it and the cerecloth, was found entire. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The coffin was completely full, and, from-the tenacity of the cerecloth, great difficulty was experienced in detaching it successfully from the parts which it developed. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised ashrafi, then, once more bandaging his eyes, led him back to the place whence she had brought him. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran Winter] Reference
Wherever the unctuous matter had insinuated itself, the separation of the cerecloth was easy; and when it came off, a correct impression of the features to which it had been applied was observed in the unctuous substance. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
These were an internal wooden coffin, very much decayed, and the body carefully wrapped up in cerecloth, into the folds of which a quantity of unctuous or greasy matter, mixed with resin, as it seemed, had been melted, so as to exclude, as effectually as possible, the external air. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
My fire that mounts out of the cerecloth of the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Poets] Reference
The best is a sort of cerecloth which he prepares specially with a very fine material. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
To think fo bafe a thought: it were too grofs To rib her cerecloth in the obfcure grave. From Wordnik.com. [Works] Reference
So to bed, and there had a cerecloth laid to my foot and leg alone, but in great pain all night long. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
When, by farther removal of the cerecloth, they had disengaged the entire head, they found it to be loose from the body. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
I cut out of this cerecloth a small square the size of the Bee's thorax; and I insert the magnetised point through a few threads of the material. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised Ashrafi; then once more bandaging his eyes led him back to the place whence she had brought him. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Yet it did move, growing nearer and larger, its huge spread of canvas hanging straight as cerecloth on the poles, and its wooden flanks, by and by, showing the scars and rime of a long voyage put behind it. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
An internal wooden coffin was found to be very much decayed, and the body was found to be carefully wrapped up in cerecloth, into the folds of which there had been poured abundantly some unctuous substance mixed with resin. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
The 13-year-old aced "bardiglio" (a type of Italian marble), "cerecloth" (a wax-treated cloth) and "talipot" (a tall palm tree native to India and Sri Lanka) during Thursday's semi-final rounds to qualify for the championship round, which aired at 8 p.m. on ABC. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
They got across in much less time than Walter had occupied in his first passage, and as they reached Appenfell they saw the two boys standing dimly on the verge of the moonlit mist, while all below them the rest of Appenfell was still wrapt, as in some great cerecloth, by the snowy folds of seething cloud. From Wordnik.com. [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference
"Such a cerecloth," said Brother Cadfael very soberly, "may be only too fitting for Brother Humilis. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
A piece of cerecloth, and some linen and lint which we had brought with us in anticipation of possible accidents. From Wordnik.com. [Over Strand and Field] Reference
Waywearer laughed and said: "Sharp are thine eyes to see a sword through all this wrappage of cerecloth; surely they be of the warrior kin. From Wordnik.com. [The Sundering Flood] Reference
Wrap the cerecloth round him!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon] Reference
With the cerecloth risen above thy feet. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Tragedy. James I of Scots.-20th February, 1437] Reference
To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras] Reference
Allow him to drape a cerecloth on my frame. From Wordnik.com. [POEMS BY PHILIP HOBSBAUM, 1963-1972] Reference
Who would cover your face with the cerecloth. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
It dropped the cerecloth from its fleshless face. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Passion] Reference
A cerecloth IFifemcu. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
Searment, cerecloth, or searcloth, ii. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. ". From Wordnik.com. [Adventures Among Books] Reference
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