Winding Sheet

Word WINDING SHEET
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A sheet for wrapping a corpse; a shroud. noun

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The word "winding-sheet" in example sentences

Finally, the huge gold coach carrying plaster models of Christ in a real damp fluttering winding-sheet and his disciples. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Carbon dating tests carried out in 1988 indicated that the shroud, long revered as the winding-sheet in which the body of Jesus was wrapped for burial and bearing his imprint, had been made between 1260 and 1390. ❋ Jan (2008)

For the eye of the thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an apron, dismally sponging out their work. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the half-open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom who is gazing into a tomb. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But — faugh! — this moral linen of yours smells tainted, just like a winding-sheet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and which resembled a human form. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ere the worm pierce your winding-sheet, ere the spider ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yes; I felt a cold and fleshless hand cast over me the winding-sheet of experience, dooming me to the eternal mourning into which the first betrayal plunges the soul. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then the women took possession of the chamber of death, removed the furniture, wrapped the dead in her winding-sheet, and laid her upon the couch. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All unconsciously Lucien stood with the palm of genius on the one hand and a shameful ending in the hulks upon the other; and, on high upon the Sinai of the prophets, beheld no Dead Sea covering the cities of the plain — the hideous winding-sheet of ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is the curtain to his bed of death, his winding-sheet, and grave. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Monsieur Grandet was a knave!” and I, an honest man, shall be lying in my winding-sheet of infamy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I have just seen her in her winding-sheet; her face is quite pale now with purple shadows. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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