Sentence examples for shroud from from inspiring English sources

As soon as they untied his shroud, blood splattered on the shroud from the side of his right knee.

The 12th-century ducal château, rebuilt in the 15th century, reputedly sheltered in its Sainte-Chapelle the Holy Shroud from 1502 to 1578.

Inside the building, where dozens of corpses were lined up in rows, mourners went from body to body, pulling up the shroud from one after another until they recognized a face and broke down in sobs.

Pte Manning, who is a dual American-British national because his mother is Welsh, has attracted supporters around the globe who laud him as a whistle-blowing hero for peeling some of the shroud from what they see as America's arrogant exercise of foreign policy.

Fitzgibbons, if you would remove the shroud from the device… thank you.

The genetic analysis was performed because no other first century tomb from Jerusalem has ever been examined by molecular methods and this particular tomb has remains that are unique within this region - specifically the discovery of textiles that form part of a burial shroud from the first century.

Baby David arrived in Britain a fully-formed celebrity child, shrouded from the paparazzi by a hooded sweatshirt, on October 17th.

For the next 100 days, not a single movement, word or gesture was shrouded from the public.

It is there that they meet Abulu, the local derelict, whose insanity is manifested in raving acts of public masturbation and in clear predictions of catastrophe — lifting "shrouds from the swaddled corpses of buried secrets".

Nearby are human sculptures: a figure stands against a wall, shrouded from head to waist in what appears to be white fabric but is actually aqua resin, fibreglass and epoxy.

Like many of the other groups with anodyne names engaged in the battle to control Congress, it does not have to identify its donors, keeping them — and their possible motivations — shrouded from the public.