Ere the worm pierce your winding-sheet, ere the spider.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Devil] Reference

Disturbing not the leaves which are her winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

And spread a winding-sheet for men upon the fatal Banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

My winding-sheet of youth and hope, into the oaken press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

This body also was wrapped in a white linen winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

I rent my winding-sheet, and wrapped in it my lovely Child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monk] Reference

'The waves became his winding-sheet, the waters were his tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

It is the curtain to his bed of death, his winding-sheet, and grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Notes for General Circulation] Reference

I hastened towards it, having wrapped my winding-sheet closely round me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monk] Reference

When the wind ceased we knew that the winding-sheet would fall from the black sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Story, by Sarban « raincoaster] Reference

But — faugh! — this moral linen of yours smells tainted, just like a winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pillars of Society] Reference

For this purpose it spins a winding-sheet of silk, or digs down into the ground and forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

I have just seen her in her winding-sheet; her face is quite pale now with purple shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Two Brides] Reference

Flight or retreat was hopeless; for all around lay the drifted snow, like a vast winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

I seemed as little capable of a sentiment as a man well could be, this side of his winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

She remembered the winding-sheet, and for the first time in her life shivered with spiritual fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

The count was moving with deliberate steps, the imaginary winding-sheet dragging slowly after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference

She grabbed the dish from the table next to her, showering salt down the front of her winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

“Monsieur Grandet was a knave!” and I, an honest man, shall be lying in my winding-sheet of infamy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eug�nie Grandet] Reference

His covering had fallen off, and his body emerged from it pitiful and appalling as from a winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Darkness] Reference

That grief over which I had lately been weeping, as I wrapped it in its winding-sheet, must be interred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

The stars sent him their trembling rays, and the moon wrapped him in the white winding-sheet of its effulgence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference

A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Everyone smiles upon the new queen; but, in spite of myself, I think of her whom time has just wrapped in her winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But as we wrapped him in his tattered garments that would have to suffice for his winding-sheet, I started back with a thrill of horror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Survivors of the Chancellor] Reference

In the morning, not very many yards away from the door, half-covered by its snowy winding-sheet, lay the stiff-frozen body of a young man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

It was wrapped in an immense winding-sheet which trailed behind it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Companions of Jehu] Reference

But let him beware of to-morrow; I see his winding-sheet high upon his breast. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference

Mecca, where a miracle is to be performed — and classic art called forth from its winding-sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ways of Men] Reference

And yet methinks that but now didst thou talk of 'that Unknown' from which the winding-sheet doth curtain us.    From Wordnik.com.  [She] Reference