shroud

• Very few in the Crimea had the luxury of any better coffin than a blanket-shroud, and it was very good of the grateful fellow to determine that his old friend, the mistress of Spring Hill, should have an honour conceded to so very few of the illustrious dead before Sebastopol So Christmas came, and with it pleasant memories of home and of home comforts. —  Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
• And when they laid the dead body in its shroud, they found on the left arm above the elbow the word "Dolores" marked on the skin, as sailors stamp letters in their flesh. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• "When the sister of charity hides her youth and her sex under a grey shroud, and gives up her whole life to woe and solitude, to sickness and pain, is that unreal because it is wonderful? —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• Then his eye fell on the sea mist which covered the marshes in a white shroud, and he smiled slightly. —  The Shrieking Pit
• The body lay on a rustic couch, enveloped in a white shroud, which is always, according to the usage of the country, prepared long before death, a taper of yellow wax shed its feeble rays on the corpse The grief and lamentations of Guilhem are interrupted by the rites which then take place; the men wringing their hands, and gesticulating, and cursing the cruelty of the world: the women weeping and wailing; and one of those endowed with poetical powers, improvising a lament over the body, uttering her words in a melancholy cadence, deeply expressive of the grief of all Alas, Gratien!' —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre

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