The dead cerements are rent into cobwebs, and she fronts you in that terrible strength of Nature, which no man has measured, which goes down to Madness and Tophet: see now how ye will deal with her!
The ghost of Chesterfield ought in mercy to have burst from his cerements to have answered it.
I look upon this raiment that I wear, These silks, and these embroideries, and they seem Only as cerements wrapped about my limbs!
But soon as ever the white cock stirs, They take again their cerements white, And in their hands a torch alight.
Then he who found his cerements gone, From out the graveyard gazed and signed His winding-sheet should be resigned.
Then he who found his cerements gone, Ding dong, dong ding dong!
Gazed he in fond and loving wonderment, As one who slumbers under Fancy's spell, On his beloved in cerements snowy white, All in the moonrays pictured there so bright.
Yes, gentlemen, that woman in the nameless grave in yonder arsenal yard, the cerements of which have been broken by the government, comes here to vindicate her child.
Where was the soul that had hung back from her destiny, to brood alone upon the shame of her wounds and in her house of squalor and subterfuge to queen it in faded cerements and in wreaths that withered at the touch?
The priests carefully opened the cerements in which the body was enveloped; and considering, doubtless, that one dead saint possessed no less intrinsic virtue and value than another, they very adroitly substituted the corpse of a female, Sta.
After examination, they retired, satisfied that their favourite saint was inviolate; for the slit which the priests had made in his cerements was behind and out of sight.
As she spoke she held up part of her cerements for me to see.
It was not as if my first idea of death taken from her cerements was negatived.
The cerements of the body proved to be a woven cloth like burlap, and beaver skin.
Remnants of shard and pottery, structure of houses, decorations and woven cloths and skins found wrapped as cerements round the dead all prove that these men were a sedentary and for that age civilized people.
In the ground beneath he seeks his sepulchre, and he knows that at the appointed time he will burst his cerements and fly away.
Why the imago from dark cerementsfree Winging its upward flight from earthly gloom?
John outran his companion, and on reaching the tomb stooped to look in, and so caught a glimpse of the linen cerements lying on the floor; but the bold and impetuous Peter rushed into the sepulchre, and was followed by the younger apostle.
He who could reunite spirit and body could have loosened without hands the cerements by which the reanimated Lazarus was bound; yet He said: "Loose him, and let him go.
In pure cerements shrin'd, 'Twas placed in the bier But, alas!
And women and men stepping forth are descried, In cerements snow-white and trailing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cerements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
