Use shroud in a sentence
Sentences ending with shroud
- Rising from the soft pillows in the coffin, she shook her finger threateningly at her, or, weeping and wailing, pointed down to the flames--doubtless those of purgatory--which were blazing upward around her, and had already caught the hem of her shroud. [10]
- A wreath again encircled her head, but this time blossoming myrtles blended with the laurel in the brown curls that lay in thick, soft locks on the snowy pillows and the lace-trimmed shroud. [10]
- Go, then, beloved, bearing as you go These songs that have more sunlight far than cloud; More summer flowers than dead leaves 'neath the snow; That tell of hopes from which you raised the shroud. [11]
- It shuttled in and out of the music: "Wheel the wild dance, While lightnings glance, And thunders rattle loud; And call the brave to bloody grave, To sleep without a shroud. [11]
More example sentences with the word shroud in them
- A sailor's corpse was buried in my shroud, and I lived. [11]
- The long train wandered on under its shroud of dust, and stood still when it reached the Necropolis; then the sledge with the bier came back empty on red hot runners--but she was not one of the mourners--she was imprisoned in the pestiferous house. [10]
- Virginia herself never touched that cloth to her it seemed the shroud upon a life of happiness that was dead and gone. [9]
- Had fire fallen to burn up the shroud of mist which had veiled his way to the temple? [10]
- You were saying that you were robbed--and it was a shame, too--but it appears by what is left of the shroud you have on that it was a costly one in its day. [5]
- Dead people might talk, maybe, but they don't come sliding around in a shroud, when you ain't noticing, and peep over your shoulder all of a sudden and grit their teeth, the way a ghost does. [5]
- Those who are so endowed look upon a well man and see a shroud wrapt about him. [6]
- The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on. [5]
- In a minute more a tall skeleton, hooded, and half clad in a tattered and moldy shroud, whose shreds were flapping about the ribby latticework of its person, swung by me with a stately stride and disappeared in the gray gloom of the starlight. [5]
- Also the needle in her fingers might have been intended to sew up his shroud, so angry did it appear at the moment. [11]
- My grandson lives in a stately house built with money made by these old hands of mine, and I sleep in a neglected grave with invading vermin that gnaw my shroud to build them nests withal! [5]
- She did not heed his admiring surprise; before acceding to his demand, her regal form trembled from head to foot, and she sighed as she lifted the shroud from her daughter's face. [10]
- Would that he had discovered in the shroud of mystery the cloak of fame! [9]
- The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. [5]
- And then Robbins died, and at the funeral he bursted off the lid and riz up in his shroud and told the parson to let up on the performances, becuz he could not stand such a coffin as that. [5]
- Your gown shall be stitched ere the old moon fade: The age of a moon shall your hands spin on, Or a wife in her shroud shall be laid-- Gigoton, Mergaton, spin! [11]
- Your gown shall be stitched ere the old moon fade: The age of a moon shall your hands spin on, Or a wife in her shroud shall be laid-- Gigoton Mergaton, spin! [11]
- Observe, also, the attitude and expression of the Saviour, who takes him gently by the sleeve of his shroud with one hand, while He points with the other toward the distant city. [5]
- No doubt this arrangement has helped many a subject to a shroud before his appointed time. [5]
- Then I got a sailor, who supposed Boyd Madras was before him, and the body was soon sewed in its shotted shroud and carried to where Stone the quartermaster lay. [11]
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