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Example sentences for "winding sheet"

  • Now Lady Maisry is gane hame; Made him a winding sheet; And, at the back o' merry Lincoln, The dead corpse did her meet.

  • And go to the back of Maitland town, Bring me my winding sheet; For it's at the back of Maitland town That you and I shall meet.

  • Cold meal is my covering owre, But an’ my winding sheet; The dew it falls na sooner down Then ay it is full weet.

  • Now Lady Maisry is gane hame, Made him a winding sheet, And at the back o’ merry Lincoln The dead corpse did her meet.

  • Prepare my winding sheet, And at the back o’ merry Lincoln The morn I will you meet.

  • Cold meal is my covering owre, But an my winding sheet; My bed it is full low, I say, Down among the hongerey worms I sleep.

  • Weel brook ye o your brown, brown bride, Between ye and the wa; And sae will I o my winding sheet, That suits me best ava.

  • Cold meal is my covering owre, But an my winding sheet; The dew it falls na sooner down Then ay it is full weet.

  • By the time Morgiana had warmed some water to wash the body, Ali Baba came with incense to embalm it, after which it was sewn up in a winding sheet.

  • Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.

  • To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

  • Virgin Mary's winding sheet, which dropped from her when she was taken up to heaven.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winding sheet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced guard; also told; bake them; each colony; grew dark; intelligent gentleman; large field; looking from; mentioned before; mon cousin; naval cadet; not feel; often referred; one thousand; rique septentrionale; several gentlemen; severely wounded; small iron; thought good; thousands upon; winding sheet; young plants