Meaning of Winding-sheet | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of winding sheet.

alt-of, dated

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Examples

“Accordingly, mysterious shapes were made of tables and chairs, heaped together in the middle of rooms, and covered over with great winding-sheets.”

“It is so woven into the very warp and woof of our nature, that till we are wrapped in our winding-sheets we shall never hear⟳ the last⟳ of it.”

“The painter had set⟳ himself, with, I doubt⟳ not, fair moral intent, to exhibit a skeleton wrapped up in a winding-sheet; […]”

“He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him.”

“Thinglets fit only to wrap⟳ candles in, or make⟳ winding-sheets in Lent for pilchards, or keep⟳ butter in the market-place from melting.”

“The dead have⟳ come⟳ to take⟳ the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy.”

“The driver swore and he hurried out of the way, but he was not quick enough to escape⟳ the foul odor of death that trailed behind the cart. As it passed he saw⟳ the five or six bodies in winding-sheets piled on top of each other.”

“Morrison, the leader of their inner circle of campus radicals, in the yellow winding-sheet, his freckled face⟳ covered with pancake make-up, his red hair stuffed into a yellow bathing-cap, announcing he would immolate himself at dawn.”

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