winding sheet

The end of the winding sheet was laid over the face.

Have torn their winding sheets and come to life again.

As the winding sheet in which the dead were wrapped for burial.

This old man's entire body was shrouded, as if by a winding sheet.

She had never thought to look into the matter of the bodies being discovered already prepared and in winding sheets.

"We go to our grave in a winding sheet," her daughter responded.

A dark red stain spread across the winding sheet on his lap.

"Then you need a winding sheet and not this suit," Sophie called after him.

Bill stirred slightly, like a corpse moving in its winding sheet.

It pleased him to have found such an upmarket winding sheet.

When works are wrapped, it is to recall the winding sheets of both dead people and newborns.

Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet.

"Well," reads the Student, "you could prosecute for the theft of her winding sheet."

The rat probed at the winding sheets with its long gray muzzle.

Nicholas lay across his lap, peeled from his winding sheet.

The bodies were draped with ancient winding sheets which had been meant for the ceremonial wrapping.

The sheet that covered me was a winding sheet.

From beyond the grave, the boy asks his mother to prepare a funeral winding sheet, and that he is "asleep".

He held on to the winding sheet and was imprisoned and tortured by the clergy.

Wrapped around the boy's face, the sheer material suggests both a bridal veil and a winding sheet.

He smokes, drinks from a bottle, then gets up and rolls the body off the table onto a plastic winding sheet.

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.

Then brought the covers slowly up and over him, sideward, like a winding sheet.

Behind it, filling the steep valleys, a winding sheet of water reflected the hazy morning blue.

As he sagged into a seat, he had the look of a man who was ready only to be measured for a winding sheet.