winding-sheets

The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Add individual tortures to national degradations, and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the veil, — those two winding-sheets of human devising.

Les Miserables 2008

See, the pale winding-sheets gleaming in the wax-candles!

The Virginians 2006

Those who sacrificed themselves for the peace, the liberty, and the religion of their fellow-countrymen, lay bleaching in the field of death for long, and when at last they were buried by charity, the peasants dug up their bodies, desecrated their graves, and cast them once more upon the open heath for the sorry value of their winding-sheets!

Lay Morals 2005

He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clockbell.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Upon their bodies 'winding-sheets; they that enjoy 'em

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

In the midst of the crowds in the Turkish capital, the women present a curious spectacle, wandering about as they do covered with white dominos, or rather winding-sheets.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

I'm sure there are winding-sheets always if the tallow is poor, and that dog of John Updyke's howls every time they go away and leave him alone.

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry