cerements

• For some reason the word "cerements" came into his head. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 06 - June 2002
• As the dogmas of the rabbis made even the slightest contact with a corpse or its cerements, or with the bier upon which it was borne, or the grave in which it had been lain, a cause of personal defilement, which only ceremonial washing and the offering of sacrifices could remove, care was taken to make tombs conspicuously white, so that no person need be defiled through ignorance of proximity to such unclean places; and, moreover, the periodical whitening of sepulchres was regarded as a memorial act of honor to the dead. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
• One by one the ghoulish muzzles emerged, peered into the darkness, and were satisfied; then the clumsy, ill-balanced bodies, entangled in loose-folded leathern cerements--the noctule's wing-spread measures a full foot; lastly, the webbed curving triangle of feet and tail Illustration: THE NOCTULES CAME FROM THE HOLLOW OF THE OLD CHESTNUT Each, as it blundered free, clung, for a space, head downwards to the bark, then slacked the grip of its ten toes, unhooked its thumbs, dropped, and flew. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• They attacked me furiously; and as they endeavoured to drag me out of my canvas cerements, I whirled round and round as their flat noses struck against my sides. —  The King's Own
• Or would his belovčd wind herself once more in cerements, would the seal of the Vatican be set upon the stone of monastic rules and regulations, making it fast, secure, inviolable? —  The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century

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