The sooner we moved, the sooner I could get out from under this cerecloth.

It was a cerecloth that had been used as a shroud or winding sheet for a corpse.

He adopted a sitting posture, and was covered over and sewn up in cerecloth.

The multi-layered cerecloth implies that she was embalmed in a manner similar to that of her husband.

But he did not provide rugs and pillows and cerecloth for the souls he ferried across to eternity.

Ranald, tell Ruari to bring up sixty pounds of wax for black candles, and for the cerecloth.

'Twere damnation To think so base a thought; it were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

Draped in Cerecloth (Demo, 2001)

The trees might be planted against a brick wall and enclosed in winter with a plank shed covered with "cerecloth", a waxed precursor of tarpaulin.

Finally, the corpse was tightly wrapped in cerecloth, a waxed linen, and the seams further sealed with beeswax so as to establish a near airtight condition.

"Such a cerecloth," said Brother Cadfael very soberly, "may be only too fitting for Brother Humilis.

The limbs were individually wrapped, similar to the bandaging as perfected by the ancient Egyptians, prior to the whole being enveloped in cerecloth after the fashion of the late medieval English embalmer.

To aid in the process, the body was eviscerated and wrapped - though 'trussed' would be a more realistic description - in a number of layers of cerecloth, the outer layer being sewn.

This complete, the body was further wrapped in fine velvet, a sheet of linen having first been placed between it and the cerecloth to stop staining of the finer fabric, and tied with silk cord.

Unlike the St Albans relic (the remains of Beaufort's nephew), the Duke of Exeter's face had been covered with cerecloth; the hair was in perfect condition, as was the flesh in general.

Four women then dressed and trimmed the body - i.e. shaved the face and washed the hair - prior to its being wrapped in 8 yards of cerecloth and then placed in the anthropoid lead case.

One wonders how close the cost of Edward's internment was to the £15 3s. 4 d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor, Henry VI.

The contemporary historian John Manningham relates that it was the Queen's wish not to be so treated and that this was obeyed, her body being '.wrapt up in cerecloth, and that very ill too'.

Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised ashrafi, then, once more bandaging his eyes, led him back to the place whence she had brought him.

The body itself was late medieval, not wrapped in cerecloth but in a long linen shift with a narrow hem of lace; the features were discernible, though bald, whilst the 'inside of the body seemed to be filled with some substance which rendered it very hard.'

The creature threw the rippings of his tent apart and the wind spiraled them into the air and emerging from their centre as if by cheap stage effect was what had come for him with brute and hungry enquiry, what had smelt him through the cerecloth.

However, the nineteenth-century antiquarian dean, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, had her removed in 1877 and the subsequent examination showed that although both torso and head had become skeletal, the legs remained entire, enclosed within twelve layers of cerecloth, whilst the left arm and hand were quite perfect.

He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name: HAMLET, I AM THY FATHER'S SPIRIT, bidding him list.

Cerecloth, a waxed unbleached linen - nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen - was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses, having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment.

Quoth the bandit thereupon to himself, "I shall get somewhat of my want from this snip," and to secure a further clue he asked: "Meseemeth thou wouldst jest with me, and thou meanest that a cerecloth for a corpse was stitched by thee and that thy business is to sew shrouds."

As she spoke she held up part of her cerements for me to see.

They wore their private needs like cerements, and slept in isolation.

It eased some of the pressure on him, loosened his cerements.

It had been a living breathing man, this thing, locked forever in its cerements.

His tone wrapped around her caressingly, like the oil of cerements and death.

It had been the same figure: like a man, but not a man, wrapped in the cerements of the dead.

The moonlight, falling through the thinning forest, showed her white cerements.

He was suffocated, the smell of the filthy cerements choking him.

It was not as if my first idea of death taken from her cerements was negatived.

Cold and winter and mist wound about him like cerements.

From throat to heel, the thin body was wrapped in dusty cerements.

Clad in cerements and rot, their touch was fire.

Having poured it over him, they put him again into his bed, where he soon learned how a mummy must feel in its cerements.

The Land's yellow cerements had vanished -taking her health-sense with them.

The day dawned cold and dull, as if the sunlight were clogged with gray cerements.

He wore burlap wound around him like cerements.

Do I sound so optimistic that I'm not always conscious of the short step between swaddling-bands and cerements?

When we reach the coffin I will distract the priests while you drop the pearl among the cerements."

Clad in cerements: cheap black burial suit, slit open in back.

Foolish question, because he could see how she was lovely, fresh, and warm, and still dressed in the cerements of the grave.

"There's a wall of power in his mind" It was wrapped like cerements around the core of his identity.

The sun broached the rim of the gully, wearing brown like the cerements of the world.

The article described the figure as being "wrapped in the cerements of the grave," but it could have been someone in a dirty sheet.

The garments begin to disintegrate and blow around, rotten cerements falling apart in mid-air.

The torso with its limbs, garbed in some crude but decent cerements, was now laid reverently within.