| 单词 | winding-sheet |
| 例句 | She would not go to her rest until her son, the last of her children, he who would place her in the winding-sheet, should have entered the communion of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z These creatures are credited with opening graves for the purpose of taking out joints of the fingers and toes of dead bodies, with some of the winding-sheet, in order to prepare powders. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z I could implore the Mercy of Allah in thy favour; with my own hands I could enfold thee in thy winding-sheet; I could pray over thy body and place thee in thy grave.' The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z It was white—almost as white as the snow which had so nearly formed her cold winding-sheet; stains of blood were on the blue lips, which she had involuntarily bitten through in that night's agony. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z My choice is made—the hammock for my winding-sheet, the water for my grave, and God forgive you all.” The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z The reduced size of the winding-sheet is to blame for this, by bringing them rudely in contact with their precious burden. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z He then caused himself to be tied up in a winding-sheet. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z The Mater Dolorosa was bowed in her desolation at the foot of the Holy Rood, from which hung only the white folds of the winding-sheet. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z In the morning, the Doctor, as usual, had a coffin and a winding-sheet prepared, and assisted the friends in burying their dead. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z Who would not save sixpence, if he could, even in a winding-sheet! Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Under the stone floor of what had been a prison cell a shallow grave was dug, and the body, with the United States blanket for a 'winding-sheet,' was there interred. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z An hour or two more in my bed of snow, I should have been hidden for ever by a smooth white winding-sheet, and so have kept my tryst with Death. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Mrs. Grice, engaged in a bout of what looked like a game of catch-as-catch-can with Mr. Grice and the tablecloth, immediately extricated herself from her damask winding-sheet and came respectfully to attention. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Frederick entered, livid as a corpse, dragging after him a piece of the bed linen, like a winding-sheet, while Marguerite was trying in vain to hold him back. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z In his morbid fancy the prostrate figure seemed to have already taken the rigid lines of death, the winding-sheet to be even now drawn up round the young haggard face. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z He went his way Across the heath; beyond the hill Dawn found him wrapped from head to feet In winter's snowy winding-sheet. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z She was alarmed to find herself alone, and she shivered a little in the dripping winding-sheet of the mist. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z But I agree with the old saying that ‘Empire is the best winding-sheet.’ The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z May the first hang me, and the last serve as my winding-sheet, if I speak not the truth! Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The body was borne aloft on a bier, which was adorned with gems; the winding-sheet was of purple; his whole army, native and foreign, marched in war array to his grave. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Each soldier wept then like a child—stout hearts were they and brave— The Flag his winding-sheet! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward’s race. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Very well; only that I be given employment and live to see at least one battle, I care not whether I meet my weird in its winding-sheet. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z With these words she struck with her staff upon the stone slab, and immediately a lofty shape in a white winding-sheet rose up from behind the tomb. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The whole world is robed in its winding-sheet. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z When they die, there will be a winding-sheet, but he does not concern himself about it. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z In this group, which belonged to the old church of the Commandery of the Temple of Rheims, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus hold the winding-sheet. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z And she fell senseless on the winding-sheet, which lay upon the floor. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Two thousand of Napoleon's little band were left dead upon the field, and a still larger number of Austrian corpses were covered with the winding-sheet of snow. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The sentenced man wore a long white mantle, like a winding-sheet. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z They cut up a corpse, heaven defend us, into little pieces, and bury it without a winding-sheet, in pitch. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z The saint's winding-sheet, carried in procession, dispels the plague that had been ravaging the city. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z They drew the thick winding-sheet over her again: but Myrto slipped her hand under the stuff and placed an obol for Charon in her fingers. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z I do not know when or how Mr. Lee left the room, but I was alone with Jessie, and she dead, for the moment, as if in her winding-sheet. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z And still the storm continued to wrap around him its cold winding-sheet, entangling his feet, and endeavouring to win him for a victim. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z In that event," he said hoarsely, "there lies your winding-sheet on the floor at your feet! The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Tradition tells of what happened to a woman who was so miserly that she made her little girl a winding-sheet of rags and tatters. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Not the proud beauty, nor the frown Of her who shares the living years From her the winding-sheet wraps down, Can ever buy away the tears! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z O last of Autumn and Winter—steeped in haze, O sleepy seasons! you I love and praise, Because around my heart and brain you twine A misty winding-sheet and a nebulous shrine. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z And in this hour I find thee here, And well mine eyes may note That the winding-sheet hath passed thy breast And risen around thy throat. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z "And this is the end of earth, its glory and its bliss," Aileen thought as she followed her father slowly up-stairs, "the solemn wonder of the winding-sheet and the grave." Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z You from the statues of the saints I swept, And silken flags, still on the pillars kept, And the dark tombs, of those whose sons neglect, But you, with your white winding-sheet protect. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z I began to know Rome better, and cast aside the winding-sheet which had enwrapped me, as it were. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z We are familiar with the grotesque and sumptuous appeals to the macabre which we meet with in Raleigh, in Donne, in Quarles, all the dismal trappings of the tomb and embroideries of the winding-sheet. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z And when I meet thee again, O King, That of death hast such sore drouth, Except thou turn again on this shore, The winding-sheet shall have moved once more And covered thine eyes and mouth. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z I fear it will be a winding-sheet for my poor cattle.” The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Then he who found his cerements gone, From out the graveyard gazed and signed His winding-sheet should be resigned. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z God give you joy of your gay bride-bed, And me of my winding-sheet!' The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship 2011-03-20T02:00:33.903Z Legend has it that Saint Brigid wove his winding-sheet. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Upon all the lawns and walks at the Towers, "Nature, the vicar of the almightie Lord," has laid its white winding-sheet. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Until I lie at your feet Wrapped in my winding-sheet? Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z The sight fills the watcher with mirth 'stead of fear, And the sly one, the Tempter, speaks low in his ear: "Now go and a winding-sheet plunder!" Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z You thought of the cold and pulseless body; the pale winding-sheet; the narrow coffin, and the deep, dark grave. The Home Mission 2011-02-12T03:00:30.217Z It was a bridal dress, not a winding-sheet, that Dame Nature was trying on that morning. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z The Count moved slowly on, the winding-sheet still dragging behind him. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z Instead of the Breton costume, the woman wore a sort of winding-sheet which fell to the ground and lengthened the slender outline of a body emaciated by suffering. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z I see the cross, the winding-sheet I see; Love, to the graveyard thou art leading me! Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The candle from which the winding-sheet had long ago melted and run upon the table, had flickered out, but its fitful flame was not missed. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z We have named it the “weeping willow,” and draped the tomb with its soft pale fronds, as with a winding-sheet of silver. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Dark clouds floated by, to halt now and then, and send shimmering down what seemed a winding-sheet of snow. A Little World Travel is a magician,—it both enchants and disenchants; since while it delights the eye, it often proves the winding-sheet of many cherished illusions. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Go to the church and lift the winding-sheet, Gaze on my Nella's face—how changed, alas! Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z O spirit, from thy quiet tomb, I bid thee hither through the gloom, In winding-sheet, with bloody brow, Rise up and hear our solemn vow. Comic Tragedies Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women' Another version of the tale, he says, made the coffin a winding-sheet, but no mention of either was found in the minute account drawn up by the prior Angulo. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 You leave Glasgow in gloom, wrapped in its eternal winding-sheet of fog and mud, and you arrive at Edinburgh to find clean streets, pure air, and a clear beautiful sky. Friend Mac Donald Into every cranny, on every trail; Always the snow and its winding-sheet, The mortuary snow so pale. Poems of Emile Verhaeren There is about Him all the dreamy charm of lands where twilight is long and shade and shine intermingle softly, and where the earth's wintry winding-sheet is more beautiful than her April bride gown. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Crapulous hands reach out to strangle thee, And every moment is a winding-sheet, With bats to chant corruption's litany. Sonnets from the Patagonian "And this is the end of earth, its glory and its bliss," Aileen thought, as she followed her father slowly up stairs, "the solemn wonder of the winding-sheet and the grave." Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir The multitude, on the other hand, still continue folding about them the winding-sheet of Christianity. The Progressionists, and Angela. Occasionally large forest-trees were entirely covered from top to bottom, and so thickly shrouded that not a leaf or twig could be seen through its unnatural-looking winding-sheet. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 "Ah! father, my little father, make ready my winding-sheet, my soul now belongs to God, my body to the grave, to the grave near my mother—how glad her heart will be!" Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Which is one of their grievances; for nothing troubles them more than to think they must appear in a foul winding-sheet, and come undressed. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 On the gable of the house, she read the following inscription: Eat and Drink: Forget not God: Thine Honor Guard: Of all thy store, Thou'lt carry hence A winding-sheet And nothing more. On the Heights A Novel The winding-sheet used on and dispensed with on depositing the body in the tower is burnt; in this way there are no remains of impurity. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 The house of Vimioso supplied the winding-sheet, and Camoens was buried with other victims of the plague in a common grave in the cemetery of Santa Anna. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deepset in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals. International Short Stories English Curious how syllables and tones and inflections can contain and hold our feelings, and how their memory makes a winding-sheet. Fairfax and His Pride Close to it lay the winding-sheet and mask. Black Diamonds As the daylight increased, a mass of snow-covered mountain appeared upon the left, spreading out like a huge winding-sheet, while to the right a still loftier peak caught the first beams of the morning sun. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Out of the winding-sheet of fog into the moonlight crept a strange, strange craft, her crumbling timbers blackened and rotted with incredible age. Isle of the Undead Long trails of a pale tint simulated upon the water the folds of a winding-sheet. Toilers of the Sea No: first shall war unpeople this my realm; Ay, and their colours,—often borne in France, And now in England, to our heart’s great sorrow,— Shall be my winding-sheet.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare It represents the winding-sheet in which Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of the dead Christ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" When they rifled the graves, as Fian had said, she got two joints, a winding-sheet, and an enchanted ring for love-charms. Witch Stories The figure moved towards him; he felt the winding-sheet shake; he was unable to control a momentary shudder, when a cold hand, endeavouring to remove the covering, fell on his forehead. The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. Nothing was visible except the furious waters, an enormous breadth of foam, the whiteness of a winding-sheet blowing in the draught of a sepulchre; nothing was heard but the roaring storm working devastation around. Toilers of the Sea They had not advanced far into the somber shadows of the grove when they saw, solemnly emerging from the obscurity, a tall specter in its winding-sheet. Josephine Makers of History He then plunged in after the body, and deprived it of the winding-sheet, leaving the corpse to float down the tide in a state of nudity. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment There was no coffin; the long, majestic figure of humanity was only folded close in a winding-sheet and his own blue blanket. Prisoners of Conscience Having uttered this terrible malediction, it shook its winding-sheet, and then waved the candle round its head. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 This dark form, high and narrow, resembled a winding-sheet spread out and moving. Toilers of the Sea So I lay down upon the rocky ledge, and marvelled at this motionless, huge, white winding-sheet which covered a whole realm. Eyes Like the Sea Let it be his winding-sheet, for he was a cruel monster! Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Have I brought Scorn the pale, and Hope the fleet, And First Love, in her lily winding-sheet,— And is he pitiless still?” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part In this emergency the ghost, confused as it was, contrived to make its escape; but not before it had thrown the winding-sheet which it wore around the very woman for whom he had mistaken it. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Was it not enough to have wrapped me in my winding-sheet and borne me to the grave? La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Lady, in the holy wars, Fighting for the cross, he died; Low he lies, and many scars Mark his cold and mangled side; In his winding-sheet he lies. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Then he took a handful of earth and cast it on his collar, and said: ‘O earth! be thou my grave; and O vest! be thou my winding-sheet!’ The Brown Fairy Book A bier, empty, spread with a winding-sheet, an old man arranging it at the head. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion Like the other, its head was tied up in a white handkerchief, its body was carefully wrapped in the folds of an ample winding-sheet. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Then, one after another, we all examined the candle and discovered that what she said was quite true—there was an unmistakable winding-sheet in the wax, and it emphatically pointed in her direction. Byways of Ghost-Land She spoke, she died; her corse was borne The bridegroom blithe to meet, He in his wedding trim so gay, She in her winding-sheet.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The dead Past lies in its dead winding-sheet; The living Present droops with tearful eyes; But far beyond the awaiting Future glows. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Select Poems of Thomas Gray Beside, what live, but to be wound up as it were in a winding-sheet before we are dead, and so to be shuffled quick into a grave, and buried alive. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts I am sceptical with regard to some manifestations, but I certainly do believe in this one, and I often regard my candle anxiously, fearing that I may see a winding-sheet in it. Byways of Ghost-Land Must I bid her to hem and stitch her own winding-sheet? Marion Fay Without a frown or a smile they meet, Each pale and calm in his winding-sheet; In that sullen home of peace and gloom, Crowded, like guests in a banquet-room. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition By and bye, as the mind passes into other phases, the meaning is forgotten; the language becomes a dead language; and the living robe of life becomes a winding-sheet of corruption. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. His body was red, his hair, nails, and beard had all grown again, and his veins were replete with fluid blood, which flowed from all parts of his body upon the winding-sheet which encompassed him. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Their pillow and their winding-sheet The virgin snow—a shroud most meet! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 "I tell you, I tell you," and she extended her hand towards him, "the winding-sheet is high upon your breast, and the salt dried that shall lie upon your heart." The Wild Geese I've tried to rest in that dark bed, But rest I cannot get, For always with the tears you shed, My winding-sheet is wet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 He teaches man from the cradle to the coffin; and when that aged form is gathered within its winding-sheet, it is the pulpit that says, "Dust to dust and ashes to ashes." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I She spoke, she died, her corse was borne The bridegroom blithe to meet, He in his wedding trim so gay, She in her winding-sheet. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets She is represented as springing from the tomb clothed in a winding-sheet. Chelsea The Fascination of London The lake and the bog—ay, the secret grave yearned for him: the winding-sheet was high upon his breast. The Wild Geese No grass-locked vault, no sculptured winding-sheet, No age-embalmèd hour with mummied wing, Is bosomed in such stillness, vast, complete, As wraps the future, and no prayer may bring From that unfathomed pause one minstrel murmuring. Path Flower and Other Verses The dead Were in her house; her guests in depths of hell: She wove the winding-sheet of souls, and laid Them in the urn of everlasting death.” Select Temperance Tracts I pulled out my watch from under my winding-sheet. Humorous Ghost Stories They covered his silken winding-sheet with flowers until the sepulchre was filled, then they laid flat stones across his resting place, and began to build a cairn over all. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days Suddenly his heart stood still, for before him rose a tall form draped in white, like a winding-sheet. The Son of Monte-Cristo He was as a mystery in a winding-sheet crowned with a halo. My Recollections of Lord Byron Materialistic culture was their winding-sheet, and "A Religion of the Flesh" should be their epitaph. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Then all your fellow flow'rs, both fair and sweet, Will come, with tears, to deck your winding-sheet; Hang down their pensive heads so dew'd, and crave To be transplanted to your perfum'd grave. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions After which, silence once more covered all as with a winding-sheet. Tartarin On The Alps Morgiana then covered the body with a winding-sheet and sent for the undertaker to make preparations for the funeral. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes I wish my grave were growing green, A winding-sheet drawn ower my e’en And I in Helen’s arms lying On fair Kirconnell Lee. Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series A ghastly figure, p. 269wrapped in a winding-sheet, drew back the curtains of his bed. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Alas! they are all laid aside; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 In Dormitory 9 matters were serious, for the snow had drifted in through the open window and covered everything like a winding-sheet. A Patriotic Schoolgirl "A dead body!" exclaimed the robber; "you mean, I suppose, that you sewed up the winding-sheet for a dead body." Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Over everything lay, like a white winding-sheet, the cover of thick plaster-dust shaken down from the ceiling by the hammer-blows of the shells. Between the Lines The winding-sheet flies open, and reveals the skeleton of Death. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul Silence—a silence so fragile that the step of a single wayfarer on the road would be enough to break it—reigns undisturbed, and covers everything like a winding-sheet. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 His body was taken to Cuzco and buried fully dressed; "No one," says Garcilasso de la Vega, "being willing to give even a winding-sheet for it." Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Cold, that casts its white winding-sheet over fields and woods and lakes, even over the fur and feathers of animals! The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Next to them is the Devil, and Death, whose swarthy skin is wrapped in a winding-sheet that seems to belly in the blasts of Hell. The Story of Rouen Beneath, a winding-sheet, starred with points of gold, makes a kind of train;—and the entire body undulates, like a gigantic worm holding itself erect. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul "I am not so foolish," she replied with bitter irony to Mary's entreaties, "I am not so foolish as to hang a winding-sheet before my eyes." History of the English People, Volume IV It seemed as if everything was dead around us, and Nature was laid out in her winding-sheet. The Scalp Hunters When the certificate has been officially registered at the Mayor's office, we will sew him in his winding-sheet and bury him somewhere. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I A well-drawn figure of an angel announces his message to the Blessed Virgin who is reading, and in the middle of the composition, near the bottom, lies a corpse in a winding-sheet. The Story of Rouen A winding-sheet, fastened round her head, hangs with her white hair down to the very extremities of her legs, thin as sticks. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul It was still open; only the winding-sheet covered the whole. Debts of Honor At one time I even thought I saw her foot move under the whiteness of the coverings, and slightly disarrange the long straight folds of the winding-sheet. Clarimonde Tombs are raised over the dead; they are buried in a winding-sheet and a coffin: the relations mourn over their graves, and pronounce a panegyric on the dead. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa If his strength or memory failed, it might well happen that the dreary desert would be our burial-place and the loose sand our winding-sheet. At the Point of the Sword The old crone had brought up her work: videlicet, a winding-sheet all but finished, and certain strips of glazed muslin about three inches deep. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 His eye fell upon a folded napkin; that suggested a corpse in its winding-sheet, and the figure was in his mind. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Few, few shall part where many meet; The snow shall be their winding-sheet; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. English Songs and Ballads Sister Eulalie, interrupting herself, said: "We ought to put them into the grave with her, to make a winding-sheet of them, and bury them with her." The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. There is, of course, a bitterly substantial basis for this feeling, as the dozens of stiffened forms whose only winding-sheet was the curling snowdrift, or whose coffin the frozen sleet, bear ghastly witness. Preventable Diseases All day London had been struggling under her cold winding-sheet, like a feeble, feverish patient trying to throw off a heavy white counterpane. The Mark Of Cain In a corner lay the black coffin, with the winding-sheet carefully folded on the lid. The Lifeboat Now it was draped in the pure winding-sheet of winter, and silent in the repose of Arctic death. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole Meanwhile, outside in the quiet night the snow was falling softly, silently—wrapping the sleeping earth in a pure, unsullied winding-sheet, and covering the church steeples with its feathery flakes. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life The body was first washed with clear cold water, then rubbed over with lime, salt, and camphor, placed in the winding-sheet, again consigned to the bier, and at length conveyed to the place of burial. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan The plain, far as the eye can reach, is covered with artemisia, whose hoary foliage, in close contact at the tops, displays a continuation of surface like a vast winding-sheet spread over the world. The Lone Ranche The mist wrapped them like a winding-sheet, and froze as it fell. A Dog with a Bad Name 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. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales In the Central Provinces the body of a man is covered with a white winding-sheet and that of a woman with a red one. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala ‘God give you joy, you two true lovers, In bride-bed fast asleep; Loe I am going to my green grass grave, And am in my winding-sheet.’ Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series His vessel was wrecked on a homeward voyage, and the waves became the sailor's winding-sheet. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author It had on a winding-sheet, drawers, and stockings, and a quantity of blood was clotted about the head, and the lining of the shell entirely stained. Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The rugged peak of Bakrota was enveloped in a grey winding-sheet, impenetrable, all-pervading; a dense mass of vapour ceaselessly rolling onward, yet never rolling past. The Great Amulet He was wrapped in a sort of winding-sheet of canvas, smeared from head to foot with grease to make him slip smoothly, and hitched by the fettered wrists to a pair of horses. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories My glance travelled over the intervening stretch of level country, wrapped in its winding-sheet of snow, and stopped at a tall figure confronting me, leading by the bridle the finest horse I had ever seen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 I mourned that the desolation of winter was added to the dreariness of death; that a pall of snow, white as her winding-sheet and cold as her clay, covered the churchyard. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author They bring the maiden food to eat, She turns white as a winding-sheet. Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Would indeed that the snow were their winding-sheet, so that it might but hide our dishonour! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 There, child, put back the faded dress, My winding-sheet of youth and hope, into the oaken press. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform From Kielland's point of view, Norway is yet wrapped in the wintry winding-sheet of a tyrannical orthodoxy, and all he dares assert is that the chains of frost and snow seem to be loosening. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Prone on its face on the bed, covered with a winding-sheet, lies your overthrown looking-glass; and underneath it, in a shapeless mass, are huddled together all the things that you hold dearest upon earth. The Farringdons God! would you have a man out in such a night as that was, when he’s almost ready for his winding-sheet?’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 I ask no willow where I lie, My mourner let the mermaid be, My only knell the sea-bird's cry, My winding-sheet the boundless sea! The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century December and the old year died out, in a great winding-sheet of snow. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel The middle of the design is occupied by an altar tomb, into which the body, swathed in a diapered winding-sheet, is being lowered. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See Weave the warp and weave the woof The winding-sheet of Edward's race: Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Weave the warp and weave the woof The winding-sheet of Edward's race: Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language In the language of those who dwell habitually on the banks of the river the wish is epigrammatically expressed, "May the Robe be their winding-sheet." Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Her deft fingers arranged the folds of the shroud, and the winding-sheet, and her gentle tones whispered comfort and resignation to the sorrowing ones behind. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Not that the lowland Moor has not its dead, frosted grace in its winter winding-sheet, and its tender spring charm, when curlews scream over it incessantly. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes I wish my grave were growing green, A winding-sheet drawn ower my e'en, And I in Helen's arms lying On fair Kirkconnell lea. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys What is more, he had cut a couple of cloths out of the sail, for a winding-sheet.… Foe-Farrell Slowly, slowly she turns about: Oh the creeping horror that chokes his breath As slowly she draws the linen out, And fashions its folds in guise of death— Long and loose like a winding-sheet! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Then the lighter sand and ashes fell in their turns, stretching like a gray winding-sheet and smoking over these dismal funerals. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" To see a “winding-sheet” in the candle has the same significance. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk Life-wasting love, hate born of raging lust, Fierce retribution, fed with death's own dust And sorrow's pampering poison, cross and meet, And wind the world in passion's winding-sheet. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Who knows whether this expiring nineteenth century will not arise from its winding-sheet to make amende honorable and bequeath to its successor one manly word of faith? Life of St. Francis of Assisi In a few minutes it would be wrapped in its winding-sheet. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 These great spreading, gnarled branches are hands, claws—monstrous and menacing; those leaves no longer bright remind me of a hearse's plumes; their rustling—of the rustling and switching of a pall or winding-sheet. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter They were washed ashore dead, wrapped in their extraordinary winding-sheet. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 The young man cools himself with a thought of the winding-sheet and the charnel, as the heated dancer cools himself on the balcony with the night-air. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The Abbey of Saint Cornille sheltered, perhaps, the holy winding-sheet of Christ. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air The red flag became the emblem of the government and the winding-sheet of liberty. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution His inanimate body, from which one of the noblest souls of the century had fled, lay rigid in its winding-sheet at Fort George. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 "He wrought me wrong when the days were sweet, And he'll get no more but a winding-sheet." More Songs From Vagabondia The Highland seer pretended that he could see the winding-sheet high upon the breast of the man for whom death was waiting. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Ypres was a city of catacombs, wrapt in a winding-sheet of mortar, fine as dust, which rose in clouds as the German shells winnowed among the ruins. Leaves from a Field Note-Book They plodded on doggedly, stumbling over the corpses of men, the carcasses of horses, the fragments of gun-carriages, covered by the white winding-sheet of the great disaster. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale The canvas is sombre, notwithstanding its high lights and the extraordinary whiteness of the winding-sheet. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Soon we were on the flat plateau of the Causse, where last year's faded grass was frosted white, and a torn winding-sheet wrapped the limbs of a dead world. The Motor Maid The Christ has enveloped the whole world in his winding-sheet.... Is Life Worth Living? And so on, till at last they have to go to the poor man’s market for the last decencies of their death and burial; for their winding-sheet, and their coffin, and their grave. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Her face is pallid as the newly fallen snow, her head crowned with glittering icicles, and her form enveloped in a great white winding-sheet. Stories of the Wagner Opera The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulcher. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library All the search that had been made for Cameron in the first days of the snow had resulted in nothing but the finding of his coarse winding-sheet in this birch wood. What Necessity Knows Even if the Glacial period was such that it was enveloped in a Greenlandic winding-sheet, there would have been some Antarctic animals? Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 The prospect of a night in the storm, and only a winding-sheet of snow to cover us, made me bitterly regret the foolish ambition with which I had set out. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 The count was moving with deliberate steps, the imaginary winding-sheet dragging slowly after him. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales The centipede along the threshold crept, The cobweb hung across in mazy tangle, And in its winding-sheet the maggot slept, At every nook and angle. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood He did not move quickly or sniff about; he laid his head on the edge of the winding-sheet and moaned a little. What Necessity Knows Bye and bye, as the mind passes into other phases, the meaning is forgotten; the language becomes a dead language; and the living robe of life becomes a winding-sheet of corruption. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) If he had loved me less and himself more, he would still be enjoying the dolce far niente of Happy Valley, instead of lying there, stark and stiff in his frozen winding-sheet. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Wouldst thou add another pang to the existence of one to whom life is worse than death, and whose eternal veil is but a foretaste of the winding-sheet and the grave? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 The garment of mourning is oftenest a winding-sheet; the loss of the loved by death is the main cause of the mourning of the world. Hope of the Gospel In the morning, not very many yards away from the door, half-covered by its snowy winding-sheet, lay the stiff-frozen body of a young man. Stories of the Border Marches Deliberately he had put a winding-sheet about his heart's desire, and laid it away in a drawer, until such time as he had indisputably qualified himself to be editor of the Post. Queed Her treachery laid her out in its winding-sheet. Flames To-morrow I will either command millions, or rest in the damp winding-sheet of the Seine! Mercadet A Comedy in Three Acts It held a corpse, whose dull white feet protruded from under the winding-sheet like bits of washed alabaster, while the body itself had the uncertain form peculiar to dressed corpses. Over Strand and Field His cassock fell around him in straight folds like a black winding-sheet, concealing all the outlines of his body. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Its deeper meaning is expressed in the verses that head it:— In shrouded awe the world is wrapped, The sullen wind doth groan, 'Neath winding-sheet the earth is stone, The wraiths of snow have flown. Edward MacDowell December had come and wrapped the city in a winding-sheet of snow; the cruel news seemed all the bitterer for the piercing cold. The Downfall So round and round—I knew no better— I fluttered, nearer to the heat; Methought I saw an offered letter— Now I but see my winding-sheet. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 The chief figure who haunts it is a living man in a winding-sheet. The Art of Letters At the far end, some little while ago, a black tramping had passed by; some one was being buried beneath this snowy winding-sheet. A Love Episode We have mention in this quatrain of a winding-sheet, and that could be of linen or of damask. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala We accordingly put the body in a winding-sheet, and coffined it up, waiting to carry it to the grave next morning. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time In that white winding-sheet, that widespread pallor of Sunday, all my former lot builds itself again, house by house. Light A large coffin was placed before the altar, within which, lay the veritable Euclid, arranged in a becoming winding-sheet, the body being composed of combustibles, and these thoroughly saturated with turpentine. A Collection of College Words and Customs Sand had heaped up around her hull and flung itself across her deck like a white winding-sheet. Spanish Doubloons So shall you find all armour incomplete And open to the whips of circumstance, That so shall you be girdled of mischance Till you be folded in the winding-sheet. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala It would likewise appear that snow, from its coldness, ought to be the paralysis of winter, and, from its whiteness, the immobility of the winding-sheet. The Man Who Laughs A few of the women on the ground by the side of the king wore large white dresses, which covered their persons like a winding-sheet. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 541, April 7, 1832 A tall figure in a winding-sheet, its face covered, was leaning over me. D'Ri and I The youngest have a past, and this epitaph dedication, printed in capital letters, informs me that I have embalmed my past, that I have wrapped the dead in the finest winding-sheet. Confessions of a Young Man There were two letters, I remember, for which he had no words, but he made me understand that I was to place them on his heart within his winding-sheet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 The snow was falling, and as the wreck was now motionless, this white lint made a cloth over the deck and covered the vessel as with a winding-sheet. The Man Who Laughs If that remnant is shaken out of its winding-sheet by being antagonized, you may galvanize it into life. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters Then a skeleton hand came out of the winding-sheet, pointing down at the square of bristling bayonets. D'Ri and I And at that moment the gray winding-sheet fell away and Claire stood before him, smiling. The Blood Red Dawn From the ground, without either a wind to carry them or a winding-sheet ready, these things, for all their poison, could do him little evil. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories How the child, wrapped in a smothering winding-sheet of snow, lost on a narrow elevation between two jaws of an abyss, managed to cross the isthmus is what he could not himself have explained. The Man Who Laughs It was a "Hem," however, which helped to make the actor's winding-sheet, for one fine day he repeated the trick, burst a blood-vessel, and died within twenty-four hours. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield It is engraved in the best seventeenth-century style, and represents, apparently, the head and bust of a dead man wrapped in a winding-sheet. Gossip in a Library Then, coming down a dust-stung road, he saw a gray figure—a gray figure with two smiling red lips showing through a rent in its drab winding-sheet. The Blood Red Dawn "Wrapped in a winding-sheet, I'll admit," said Maggie, "but not quite dead, I trust;" and, putting down her light, she attempted to extricate her governess, who continued to apologize for what she had done. Maggie Miller It is a narrow border of good round a huge winding-sheet of evil. The Man Who Laughs Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race: Give ample room and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes All this fortnight and to the moment of his death, the terrible life-sized portrait of himself in his winding-sheet stood near his bedside, where it could be the "hourly object" of his attention. Gossip in a Library It was as if care had died and this pallid mist were a winding-sheet that would forever screen its ghastly face. The Blood Red Dawn A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." The Devil's Dictionary It is like the tears of a winding-sheet putting themselves into lifelike motion. The Man Who Laughs Both the other witches repeat this after First Witch, and take the Uncommercial measurement with their eyes, as for a charmed winding-sheet. The Uncommercial Traveller Lightwood, Boots, and Brewer, flutter like moths around that yellow wax candle—guttering down, and with some hint of a winding-sheet in it—Lady Tippins. Our Mutual Friend A damsel was issuing forth of the chamber and bare the winding-sheet wherein to enshroud him. The High History of the Holy Graal It is the curtain to his bed of death, his winding-sheet, and grave. American Notes One evening he remained by the riverside long after sunset, regardless of the night mist that had closed round him, had wrapped him up and clung to him like a wet winding-sheet. An Outcast of the Islands I hastened towards it, having wrapped my winding-sheet closely round me. The Monk; a romance At last, to their horror, they discovered that the recumbent figure was a livid corpse, swathed in a blood-stained winding-sheet. Lay Morals "Damsel," saith he, "Behold, here is some of the winding-sheet wherein the knight was shrouded, and here is his sword; but you befooled me as concerning the serpent's head." The High History of the Holy Graal The very dead that lay at his feet, Lapt in the mouldy winding-sheet. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women The impression on the mind of the sail seemed to be that we were playing at funerals, and that I was the corpse and itself was the winding-sheet. Three Men in a Boat I rent my winding-sheet, and wrapped in it my lovely Child. The Monk; a romance The thought of arraying myself in this dress to approach the holy table frightened and revolted me as much as if I had been sentenced to drape myself in a winding-sheet. The Count's Millions They uncover his wounds, and Lancelot unbindeth them, and the damsel toucheth him of the sword and the winding-sheet, and they are assuaged for him. The High History of the Holy Graal One gleam like a bloodshot sword-blade swims on The sky-line, staining the green gulf crimson, A death stroke fiercely dealt by a dim sun, That strikes through his stormy winding-sheet. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and which resembled a human form. Les Misérables It was many days before they were found, lying together, close wrapped in their winding-sheet of snow. The Young Woodsman Life in the Forests of Canada Gloomy the hollow now lies in its winding-sheet, Black is the night. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? Dead bodies, already stiff, lay half- buried in a winding-sheet of snow. The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Come, brother! from your winding-sheet, And let us two be boys again! A Little Book of Western Verse When the little bride gazed upon him in wonder who he could be, she saw through the misty winding-sheet that enfolded him a death's head. The Story and Song of Black Roderick She remembered the winding-sheet, and for the first time in her life shivered with spiritual fear. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Now Lady Helen she's gane hame, Made him a winding-sheet; And at the back o' merry Lincoln, The dead corpse did her meet. The Book of Old English Ballads It remained—so that he lay still as a man in his winding-sheet, afraid to move—remembering— "I did kill my husband." The Best British Short Stories of 1922 I should stand waiting to see you come out in a winding-sheet. Wilfrid Cumbermede That grief over which I had lately been weeping, as I wrapped it in its winding-sheet, must be interred. Villette Flight or retreat was hopeless; for all around lay the drifted snow, like a vast winding-sheet. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Mrs. Thrale maintained that his Odes were melodious; upon which he exclaimed, 'Weave the warp, and weave the woof;'—I added, in a solemn tone, 'The winding-sheet of Edward's race.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 So the terrible sunless season threatened to wrap him in its winding-sheet, and lay him down. A Rough Shaking The body being taken down from the cross was received in a fair large winding-sheet, and carried down from Calvary; the whole company attending as before to the stone of Unction. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Then he looked down upon his winding-sheet, For that was the great place, the sacred place, That was a portion of the light of God, And from behind that door Hosannas rang. Poems Two sisters of the king then shrouded the corpse in a sitting posture, overlaid it with perfumes and odoriferous gums, frankincense and myrrh, and, lastly, swaddled it in a fine winding-sheet. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok From Kielland's point of view, Norway is yet wrapped in the wintry winding-sheet of a tyrannical orthodoxy; and all that he dares assert is that the chains of frost and snow seem to be loosening. Tales of Two Countries So they lay together till morning, when the King went out to his hall of audience and the Vizier came in to him, with the winding-sheet under his arm. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Here they laid down their imaginary corpse; and casting over it several sweet powders and spices, wrapped it up in the winding-sheet. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Straight to Mount Savo went he, gnawed by time, And thus, "O mountain buffeted of storms, Give me of thy huge mantle of deep snow To frame a winding-sheet." Poems It all ended in four planks and a winding-sheet. Hunger Another moan—a shudder of all the limbs, and then the fog rolled down upon him like a winding-sheet. The Old Homestead Now Lady Helen she's gane hame, Made him a winding-sheet; And at the back o' merry Lincoln, The dead corpse did her meet. Ballad Book My grandsire hath told me of a mist that lay like a winding-sheet on everything for two days, and this seemeth to me to be of that kind. A Boy's Ride Now it was only a white wall, which reminded him of a winding-sheet. O. T. a Danish Romance I threw a glance towards the door, and could distinguish without particular trouble the skeleton-like letters of Miss Andersen's winding-sheet advertisement to the right of it. Hunger He was startled to find that she had on the hat and cloak in which he had first seen her—the memorable cloak that had once been wetted for a winding-sheet. Daniel Deronda I seemed as little capable of a sentiment as a man well could be, this side of his winding-sheet. The Opium Habit But while his triumph note he blows, Straight on our valiant conqueror goes A spider's ambuscade to meet, And make its web his winding-sheet. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes The man and woman they soon were dead, ��The sailors their strength did urge; But the billows that beat were their winding-sheet, ��And the winds sung their funeral dirge. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas His master is taking him off in a winding-sheet of smoke and flame. Gaut Gurley It was wrapped in an immense winding-sheet which trailed behind it. The Companions of Jehu The cold vapours lie like a winding-sheet down in the valleys until the sun smites them, warms them, and draws them up. Expositions of Holy Scripture The passage quoted had been of death and its possible significance, and it was just a sigh, a fear, the old man had breathed after it: How high has the winding-sheet encompassed my own bosom! Young Lives She procured the more precious kinds from other places, and Joseph went away to procure a fine winding-sheet. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ How one wedding gown served our grandmothers till they exchanged it for a winding-sheet; and praises plainness, not for less sin, but for less cost. Character Writings of the 17th Century I rend my winding-sheet; a frightful craving tortures me incessantly, as if some serpent stung continually within. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. Maybe he is dead, and perchance, deeper in the wood, you may come upon his marble form in a winding-sheet of drifting leaves. October Vagabonds He was as a mystery in a winding-sheet, crowned with a halo. The Life of Lord Byron She said no more, but seeing the empty winding-sheet, went out of the sepulchre and began to look about in other parts. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ A marginal note of W. P. would serve for a winding-sheet for that man's works, like thick-skinned fruits are all rind, fit for nothing but the author's fate, to be pared in a pillory. Character Writings of the 17th Century Then silence again, vast and unnatural, settling over the gloomy land like a winding-sheet. Northern Trails, Book I. My son, these presents, though so rich and rare, Will be thy winding-sheet; beware, beware! The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 Ah! many springs have come and gone, And called me forth in vain; Now winter folds the winding-sheet Round nature's breast again. Canadian Wild Flowers When next I contemplated him it was in his winding-sheet, surrounded with a bright light and with two adoring angels by his side. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ Thus lives she, and all her care is that she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet. Character Writings of the 17th Century Soon the big snowflakes were whirling in the air, busily weaving a soft white winding-sheet for the autumn which was passing away. Northern Trails, Book I. A great fight now arose between weavers and millers, while the poor thief stood by with his hands tied behind his back, and arrayed in his winding-sheet. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Johnnie forgot the budding flowers in their winding-sheet, and joyously aided in the construction of the fort. Nature's Serial Story The air was dead and heavy, a dripping winding-sheet of fog wrapped the city in its folds; no sound broke the silence of the hour. The Net "And so do I!" rejoined Scrymgeour, "or may the standard of Scotland be my winding-sheet!" The Scottish Chiefs To carefully lay out her husband's body, and tenderly enfold it in a winding-sheet, was the last act of devotion to her husband which was performed by Tamsen Donner. History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra I now repeat to you that I will sooner marry the grave and the winding-sheet than be your wife! Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story Now this winding-sheet is a kind of a sweet thing in its way, if you would like to—No? Sketches New and Old, Part 4. Yet they could not hinder me from pressing my lips to the hands of the beloved body in its winding-sheet. Margery — Complete I'm sick of that routine: I can see you laying out my winding-sheet the day of my burial. The Masquerader Just look how the clouds are rolling and sinking—soon they'll be all around us like a winding-sheet! When We Dead Awaken The white wave was her winding-sheet,—the wind sang a requiem over her watery grave,—and a just God received her spirit, and enthroned it high among the angels. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter What was that he saw out in the gray gloom of Arctic desolation, creeping up, up, up, almost black at its beginning, and dying away like a ghostly winding-sheet? Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police When the Algerian was dead, he arranged the winding-sheet himself, in his own fashion; then he lighted a cigarette, and set out in search of Monet and Renaud. The New Book of Martyrs Outside the window the snow still fell monotonously, wrapping the world in a passionless, chill winding-sheet. The Lamp of Fate You are permitted to kiss the pretty one in the winding-sheet. Thelma To a person of solid nerves a banshee may be an entertaining companion, and an apparition in a well-worn winding-sheet may be a pretty toy. The Witch of Prague The physician called them, and bade them go tell the lord-Steward that the king's coffin must be saturated with spirits of wine, and his winding-sheet also. Joseph II. and His Court When all movement ceases under the snowy winding-sheet, the Spider goes up to her bound prisoner. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects The stars sent him their trembling rays, and the moon wrapped him in the white winding-sheet of its effulgence. Five Weeks in a Balloon "I'd rather follow ma own funeral, than kiss a lass in a winding-sheet," said Sandy, in solemn and horrified tones. Thelma "Yes, he loves her!" said Jane, and her pale face was now colorless as a winding-sheet. Henry VIII and His Court "She is not found, and she never will be found but in her winding-sheet," returned Joyce, whose lamentable and unusual state of excitement completely overpowered her customary quiet respect and plain good sense. East Lynne Then he took a handful of earth and cast it on his collar, and said: 'O earth! be thou my grave; and O vest! tee thou my winding-sheet!' The Brown Fairy Book Hard is it to die, because our delicate flesh doth shrink back from the worm it will not feel, and from that unknown which the winding-sheet doth curtain from our view. She In the streets the very dogs lay dead and in the fields they saw the carcasses of cattle dragged from the smokeless and deserted steadings and half hidden in a winding-sheet of snow. Red Eve Such a winding-sheet which had before enwrapt the King of Wight, she saw it again—nay, on the Duke of Gloucester there was such another, mounting—mounting to his neck. Two Penniless Princesses La Corriveau reached the city in the gray of the morning; a thick fog lay like a winding-sheet upon the face of nature. The Golden Dog I wish my grave were growing green, A winding-sheet drawn owre my e'en, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell lea. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 One unbroken stretch of snow covered the plateau, and at the centre of the wintry winding-sheet a cluster of weather-beaten huts appealed pitiably to the eye. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan She was so sad, so sad, to see her standing upright on the threshold of her house, she seemed to you like a winding-sheet spread out before the door. Madame Bovary But--faugh!--this moral linen of yours smells tainted, just like a winding-sheet. Pillars of Society They gazed at her for a minute in solemn silence, before shrouding her fair face and slender form in their last winding-sheet. The Golden Dog Yet your face is one that I have seen; though it would not be strange, such has been my affright, should I see thee in thy winding-sheet walking by my bedside to-night. The Pioneers In a few moments the winding-sheet became universally dense; all around the Marie a white damp lay under the light, and in it the mast faded and disappeared. An Iceland Fisherman His head was shaved, and his body wrapped in a dark winding-sheet. Mauprat "This is all the great Saladin brings to the grave," was announced by a courier who carried the great ruler's winding-sheet before him to the grave. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius A leg had become severed from the body and hung out of the coffin, swinging in a fold of the winding-sheet. The Daughter of an Empress This morning, all is calm, sleeked out into spotless white; Pogarell and the world are wrapt as in a winding-sheet, near two feet of snow on the ground. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 One morning, going on three o'clock, while all were dreaming quietly under their winding-sheet of fog, they heard something like a clamour of voices—voices whose tones seemed strange and unfamiliar. An Iceland Fisherman But let him beware of to-morrow.—I see his winding-sheet high upon his breast.' Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Nor herb nor grain she feeds on in her life, but only on tears of incense and on balsam, and nard and myrrh are her last winding-sheet. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell Where was she now, this lady of her love, her longings? why had she been brought away from that house with its snowy winding-sheet and the ice drapery upon its windows? The Daughter of an Empress Weep, neighbours, weep, do you not hear it said That Love is dead: His death-bed, peacock's folly: His winding-sheet is shame; His will, false-seeming holy, His sole executor, blame. A Defence of Poesie and Poems I have just seen her in her winding-sheet; her face is quite pale now with purple shadows. Letters of Two Brides When all movement ceases under the snowy winding-sheet, the Spider goes up to her bound prisoner. The Life of the Spider In three days Paris will cry out: "Monsieur Grandet was a knave!" and I, an honest man, shall be lying in my winding-sheet of infamy. Eugenie Grandet Yes; I felt a cold and fleshless hand cast over me the winding-sheet of experience, dooming me to the eternal mourning into which the first betrayal plunges the soul. Another Study of Woman But as we wrapped him in his tattered garments that would have to suffice for his winding-sheet, I started back with a thrill of horror. The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger Mrs. Thrale maintained that his Odes were melodious; upon which he exclaimed, 'Weave the warp, and weave the woof;'— I added, in a solemn tone, 'The winding-sheet of Edward's race.' Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Without troubling, like the Epeirae, to bury her capture under a paralysing winding-sheet, she feels it, to make sure of its quality, and then, regardless of kicks, inserts her fangs. The Life of the Spider Then the women took possession of the chamber of death, removed the furniture, wrapped the dead in her winding-sheet, and laid her upon the couch. La Grenadiere Fair, by heaven! she was to meet On a midnight, near a grave, Flapping wide the winding-sheet. Poems — Volume 2 Oh! it is a terrible tale; but the winding-sheet and the earth is over it. The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder I wish my grave were growing green, A winding-sheet drawn owre my e'en, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell lea. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse For the indiscreet His handkerchief may prove his winding-sheet! Cyrano De Bergerac This winding-sheet was nothing more than a beautiful piece of cambric, which the young girl had bought a fortnight before. The Count of Monte Cristo Now Lady Maisry is gane hame,Make him a winding-sheet,And at the back o merry Lincoln,The dead corpse did her meet. 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