A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
And I'll give you ten to one I was there as well, bound in the cerement of faint rain's chill vigil. From Wordnik.com. [10 Today] Reference
This was at once both good and bad for the little Emperor, good because it made the bursting of his cerement easy, bad because it made the drying of his wings slow. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Also, I don't call marriage, for instance, an old cerement. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop. From Wordnik.com. [He] Reference
Was it my brain that reeled — or was it indeed the finger of the enshrouded dead that stirred in the white cerement that bound it?. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter -- an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face. From Wordnik.com. [The River and I] Reference
The moonlight gleamed on the high-pitched red roof, and drenched the garden in whiteness, but the mist which rose from the waters of the moat swathed the walls of the house like a cerement. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand in the Dark] Reference
"The time is not far distant," he said in a letter to John Adams, "at which we are to repose in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall love and never lose again.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919] Reference
The mountain-slopes of Siût are strewn with cerement wrappings, and the débris of mummies broken up for the sake of their funerary amulets by the predatory Arabs; and there is not an ancient burial-ground, or mound, or ruined temple in Egypt where the traveller who has patience enough to grub under the soil beneath his feet may not find relics of the dead and gone past. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
Please RT:) cerement While I enjoy the "Trance Around the World" podcast, US. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Like a white cerement. From Wordnik.com. [Sandhya Songs of Twilight] Reference
Shall pierce the foggy cerement. From Wordnik.com. [Helen Redeemed and Other Poems] Reference
With a cerement from the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Like a mummy's through its cerement. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference
Network of barren thoughts, the cerement wan. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference
Will burst all cerement, even a living grave's!. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
23. cerement. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
"That is no cerement!. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
Over him -- a wind-shaken cerement!. From Wordnik.com. [The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras] Reference
Wound in its viewless cerement-folds accursed -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
I will not, therefore, by useless condolences, open afresh the sluices of your grief, nor, although mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say a word more where words are vain, but that it is of some comfort to us both, that the term is not very distant, at which we are to deposit in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall still love, and never lose again. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
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