| 单词 | cerement |
| 例句 | The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Inevitably, they found themselves underground with a crumbling object in “gaudy cerements.” A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z They had probably been attracted by the smell of the mummies and their cerements, that lay strewn about the tent. Amid the pandemic, a writer finds inspiration in century-old travel stories 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z “Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?” A 1934 murder mystery’s pages were printed out of order. Now the world is obsessed. 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The May 13 commencement cerement will be held at 7 p.m. at Arizona Stadium. US surgeon general to deliver Arizona commencement address 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The cloud ghost was upon her—she was already enveloped in its trailing cerements. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z "Incidens": Young reader, you must go back more than a century to understand the "pathology" that is wrapped up in that word like a mummy in its cerements. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Moreover, according to Plutarch, the holy rites represented the burial of Osiris: in these the wood was cut for the chest, the linen torn for cerements, and libations poured. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Or hope to rouse some Coptic dullard, hid Ages ago, wrapt stiffly, fold on fold, With cerements close, to wither in the cold Forever hushed, and sunless pyramid! Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Stripped of the gauzy gewgaws of fancy with which you had complacently adorned it, it lay in its stark cerements of staring simplicity, a hard, terse, graphic, uncompromising fact. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The court hath had spasms, since, fearing that it might have been a leper, but I say that there was no sick frame within those cerements! Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Vile scribblers in their greed of gold, Thus through death's cerements thrust, 'Mid scandals there obscene and old, And tales of darkness best untold, Battening on filthy dust. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Like the embalmment and the tomb, the cerements and the coffin were more or less costly, according to the rank and wealth of the deceased. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Further down the valley the clustered tombstones recede Winding about their dimness the mists' grey cerements, after The street-lamps in the twilight have suddenly started to bleed. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Now is the grass all withered up and dead, And shrouded in its cerement of the snow; Now the enfeebled Sun goes soon to bed, And rises late and carries his head low. Sonnets and Other Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:08.503Z I made no reply but lay motionless, watching the tamaracks, ghostly in their cerements of silver fog. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Shadowy yet distinct in the light of the new moon this horrible countenance, peering as it were from the fantastic cerements of barbarous sepulture, was enough to unhinge the stoutest nerves. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Shrouded to the forehead in its white cerements, the muffled figure of Sanang stood upright, motionless as a swathed and frozen corpse. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Then he who found his cerements gone, Ding dong, dong ding dong! Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Look at her garments clinging like cerements, whilst the wave constantly drips from her clothing; take her up instantly, loving, not loathing. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Plunging in pellucid water not waist-deep—their lower extremities only concealed by the saturated skirts that clung like cerements around them—their feet showing clear as coral—the two young creatures continued to disport themselves. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z His clothes still clung like damp cerements to his body. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z His fingers were chilled to the bone, and his clothes clung like damp cerements to his body. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z 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 They were moving slowly; they were carrying something into the house—something in a white covering that hung heavily as a cerement in the heavy air. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z The best I have within me declares that the fleshly wrapping becomes at the end but a cumbering cerement; that through life, it is a spirit-vault. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Now was the summons come she must obey, For Beauty pleaded from the charnel house, For violet nights and violent carouse To free her from the cerements of decay. Sonnets from the Patagonian Mummies that day, in dim museums, ached in their cerements. The Book of Susan A Novel V. Alas, alas, the children! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have: They are binding up their hearts away from breaking, With a cerement from the grave. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II "The morning stars sang joy" above thy bed, The nations, in their cerements, shall pass thy door, And earth be wrapped in ashes ere thy brow shall bear the fatal legend, "Nevermore." Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation With league-long cerements, and with a voice that caused to tremble his dwarfed companions, the hills and mornes, great Pel�e had proclaimed his warning in the night. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z For our own part, we always wish to feel the difference between sheets and cerements. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The cerements of the body proved to be a woven cloth like burlap, and beaver skin. Through Our Unknown Southwest The rapture of the mathematician, who bows before the shrine of his favorite science, is to my dull intellect as incomprehensible as the jargon of metaphysics or the mysteries wrapped up in Pali cerements. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part In the unpolluted tombs of Osorapi the history of life and of time is written on the cerements of kings. Mary Magdalen Sometimes in the tumult too When the cerements fell away From each white and muffled head,— Lo! a grinning skull appeared! Atta Troll Let them slumber: No king of Egypt in a pyramid Is safer from oblivion, though he number Full seventy cerements for a coverlid. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Remnants of shard and pottery, structure of houses, decorations and woven cloths and skins found wrapped as cerements round the dead all prove that these men were a sedentary and for that age civilized people. Through Our Unknown Southwest I saw the shadows of kings go riding by, But cerements mingled and paled with their panoply, And the moss-ways deadened the steps of steeds that never panted. Legends & Romances of Brittany The momentary exertion, the bier, the sepulchre, the sight of the Christ in his cerements, the brooding quiet—these things had roused her. Mary Magdalen Each icy germ in its cerements stirred, As Lazarus moved at the Lord's loud word. Weeds by the Wall Verses Gazed he in fond and loving wonderment, As one who slumbers under Fancy's spell, On his beloved in cerements snowy white, All in the moonrays pictured there so bright. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems Anyway, there lies Little Zeke, a long time asleep, wrapped in cerements of fine woven cloth with fluffy-ruffles and fol-de-rols of woven blue jay and bluebird and hummingbird feathers round his neck. Through Our Unknown Southwest There was another darkness about her, thicker than the mere night, like a black cerement dropping over her soul. Wild Oranges He unwound the cerements from the hollow and unyielding head; and the face was new to him; it had not been there the other afternoon. The Camera Fiend No shame had these revellers wasted and grim, So they shook off the cerements from body and limb, And scatter'd them over the hillocks. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The prison garb clothed her like a weed; she had the trick of wearing clothes so that they draped the figure, not concealed it, were as wax upon it, not a cerement. The Spanish Jade There, swathed in crumbling cerements, ghastly in shrunken flesh and protruding bone, lay the dead of the line of Multnomah,—the chiefs of the blood royal who had ruled the Willamettes for many generations. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. His sister bent over him, her face white like the cerements of the dead, and Mademoiselle ran forward. Hurricane Island And one night of cloud-burst that creek burst its cerements, banks I mean, filled the singing man's prison in two jerks of a lamb's tail, and floated both him and his flask out of it. It, and Other Stories The agaric has preserved them from destruction by wrapping them in tight cerements. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles One seems to see him, a languid-limbed "revenant," with heavy-lidded drowsy eyes and voluptuous lips, emerging all swathed and wrapped in costly cerements out of the tomb of some Babylonian king. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Her we have loved in vain and shall love in vain until the end�to Her who wears, even in the triumph of her Immortality, the close-clinging, heavily-scented cerements of the Dead! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Tonight his soul awakens Out of its splendid cerements, And through his eyes the miracle Arises to the earth. Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments It was a long bundle, as long as a man, and was swathed in cerements of white Egyptian tissue. He It seemed to repudiate the sunshine, to remain unilluminated, long and ash-grey and dead, with streaks of snow like cerements. The Lost Girl Like the finger of death, From cerements unroll'd, Thy hand on my heart falls Dull, clammy, and cold. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 All then shall speak of me: The tyranny of silence is not lasting, And, though events be hidden, just men's groans80 Will burst all cerement, even a living grave's! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Except by their cerements, and the inscriptions on the cases, who could tell which had been the greater? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop. He These bear the unfamiliar look which belongs to a fabulous age, and rest, silent and unobtrusive, in their half-opened cerements. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 The ghost-witness of it all, The clock brings its proofs; Moments melt into moments, Like notes of sad music, Like a white cerement. Sandhya Songs of Twilight He who could reunite spirit and body could have loosened without hands the cerements by which the reanimated Lazarus was bound; yet He said: "Loose him, and let him go." Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Further down the valley the clustered tombstones recede, Winding about their dimness the mist's grey cerements, after The street lamps in the darkness have suddenly started to bleed. Amores Poems The bottle painted on the wall, foaming with liquor, which, impatient of imprisonment, has burst its cerements, must be an irresistible invitation to a thirsty traveller. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency Let us hope that, as it sloughs off its earthly cerements, it may in the Divine presence scintillate charities and draw toward it the love of others. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 This was at once both good and bad for the little Emperor, good because it made the bursting of his cerement easy, bad because it made the drying of his wings slow. "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 The moonlight gleamed on the high-pitched red roof, and drenched the garden in whiteness, but the mist which rose from the waters of the moat swathed the walls of the house like a cerement. The Hand in the Dark The world emerged as from shrouds and cerements. Here are Ladies There was even no need to unwrap the body from its cerements, as the face itself, and the scar thereon, were quite sufficient for the friends of the deceased to swear to the corpse. The Silent House The common curses of the will- These wrap the cerements round our feet.” Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Even the cerements remain with every thread distinct and perfect as when they came from the loom, in days when Joseph was prime minister in Egypt. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It now occurred to him that he might profitably utilise the mummy cerements along with the coffin for more effectually concealing Carrel’s body until he could arrange for its final disposal. Masques & Phases "Suffice it to say that for countless ages they lay concealed in the cerements of a mummy." The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 The tub floated about in a marshy-piece of land, till the shrub, expanding, burst its cerements, and struck root in the earth below; here it grew and prospered till it attained its present goodly size. Strange Pages from Family Papers And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter—an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face. The River and I Look at her garments Clinging like cerements, Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing; Take her up instantly, Loving, not loathing! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation I am to be flannelled and cottoned, and kept alive if possible; but if that cannot be done, I must be embalmed, with my face, mummy like, only bare, to converse through my cerements. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Also, I don't call marriage, for instance, an old cerement. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Leaning against the sarcophagus was a wooden rack containing several earthenware amphorae; on the floor about it was a touseled litter of waxed outer cerements torn from mummies. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Or would his belovèd 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 Well, here I was in Wilmington, with all these valuables on my hands; the corsages were all right, but the horrid little Cockles were bursting their cerements and tumbling about my cabin in all directions. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha She groaned, and lay back and wrapped the sheets round her closely like cerements, as if by shamming dead she could cast off the hot thoughtfulness of life. The Judge I beg to say that when I speak of 'old cerements' being put off, I pre-suppose a living body in resurrection. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Yet I doubt if these stately authors, wrapped in the cerements of their prosiness, may reasonably reproach a forgetful world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Those protective and delicate coatings of wax, Which are meant to resist the corrosive attacks That would ruin the copper completely; Thin cerements which whoso remembers the Bee So applauded by Watts, the divine LL.D., The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood It was as if I had heard the dead laugh in their cold cerements. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 As seen from here, it has an indefinably spectral, repellent look; there seems something almost hideous in its white and wrinkled cerements. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees He was a schoolman of the most scholastic sect; most offensive, most absurd, presenting my idea of 'old cerements' to the uttermost. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Spiritual bodies are subject to a process of refinement and decay; and the soul, as the winged butterfly to which it is likened, throws off its cerement and assumes a new form. Strange Visitors I thanked him "No," mounted the lofty staircase, divested myself of sundry sartorial cerements and plunged my earthly tabernacle into the centre of a big delicious bed. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Three cold, bright moons have marched and wheeled; And the white cerement that revealed A Figure stretched upon a Shield, Is turned to verdure; and the Land is now one mighty battle-field. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit The tree-buds are bursting their cerements—the waters are dancing in light and song—and the woods, before all still, now echo a few wild notes of melody. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony Fog in the morning —chilling, penetrating fog, which obscures the rays of the morning sun completely, and, dank and "clinging like cerements," swathes every thing with its soft, gray folds. California Sketches, Second Series Then ensued a struggle within me such as Lazarus might have felt when he endeavored to break through his grave cerements. Strange Visitors In the advocate's hour of strength and glory, the formulas of the law burst their mouldy cerements and leap forth into life, tender and beautiful to protect, or awful to warn or punish. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio It was as if the mighty invisible demons of the night were capriciously trying the effects of cerements on the sleeping city. Round the Block They knock the stony cerement that enshrines me. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832 It was this hetæra who wrapped the dead body in cerements, and saw it decently interred. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook There are the remains of a very impressive figure, apparently rising from her cerements. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds, and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave. Dracula They fold away from off her like the cerements of death. Miracles of Our Lord This, of course, rendered him odious in the eyes of Mary, and ripened the desire to free herself from circumstances which from garments seemed to have grown cerements. Mary Marston And how can the heart rest, the pulse sleep, startled to a flutter, as one by one the tiny cells unclose unbidden, and the dead remembrance, from its cerements freed, brightens to life? The Fighting Chance Slowly, before our eyes, it writhed, and, with a faint rustling of the immemorial cerements, rose up, and, through sightless and bandaged eyes, stared across the yellow candlelight at the woman who had violated it. Three John Silence Stories The foundation or back of this had dissolved into dust, but careful unwrapping of the cerements revealed the priceless ornamentation. The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure They are seeking Death in life, as best to have; They are binding up their hearts away from breaking With a cerement from the grave. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Nobody has dug him up, unwound his cerements, or photographed him, and his ornaments have not been stolen. Ziska Dr. Stukeley will burst his cerements to offer mistletoe in your temple; and Mason, on the contrary, will die of vexation and spite that he cannot have Caractacus acted on the spot. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Britt, hairless, his face sickly white, his night gear fluttering, was as starkly bodeful as if he were newly risen from the grave, garbed in death's cerements. When Egypt Went Broke He thought he was driving in a hansom, when suddenly he found Whyte by his side, clad in white cerements, grinning and gibbering at him with ghastly merriment. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab What potent hand hath touched thy quickened corse, What song dissolved thy cerements, who unclosed Those faded eyes and filled them from the stars? Gebir So let me lie one day, One long, eternal day, in sunshine bathed, In cerements of silken tissue swathed, Smothered 'neath flowers of May. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 It was not as if my first idea of death taken from her cerements was negatived. The Lady of the Shroud From the Mountain shall frown against him the grim shade of Danton,—from the Plain shall rise, in their bloody cerements, the spectres of Vergniaud and Condorcet. Zanoni There was a momentary upheaval, a spasm, and a struggle; but the tightly-rolled blanket clung to the unfortunate man like cerements. The Story of a Mine For when ye break the cloven earth With your young laughter and endearment, No blossomy carillon 'tis of mirth To me; I see my slaughtered joy Bursting its cerement. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 His large frame seemed boneless, and, except for the cerements of his mud-stiffened clothing, was limp and sodden. Susy, a story of the Plains As she spoke she held up part of her cerements for me to see. The Lady of the Shroud Look at her garments Clinging like cerements; Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing; Take her up instantly, Loving not loathing. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 I cannot tell you my feelings when in answer, as it were, the man arose and came out to us with all his cerements about him. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ Then the corpse, covered by a long cerement, was tenderly lifted up by six of the nearest kinfolk and borne towards the dark thing I have described. The Coming Race Young Cheops up stairs, snug in his cerements. Majorie Daw The moonlight, falling through the thinning forest, showed her white cerements. The Lady of the Shroud I look upon this raiment that I wear, These silks, and these embroideries, and they seem Only as cerements wrapped about my limbs! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look at her garments Clinging like cerements; Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing; Take her up instantly, Loving, not loathing. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse When see! first one grave, then another opes wide, And women and men stepping forth are descried, In cerements snow-white and trailing. The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres |
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