Sentence examples for winding-sheet from inspiring English sources
The Early Christian Church, to the frustration of historians of costume, encouraged burial in a plain white winding-sheet, as being all that would be required at the Second Coming.
The author brought a winding sheet to the artist's studio, undressed, and wrapped himself for burial.
In the ecstatic thirteen-part series "A Winding Sheet for Summer" (a "winding sheet" is another archaic phrase, a fifteenth-century term for a burial shroud), Gizzi writes: The sun was a goldish wave taped to a book.
The props are: bread, a glass of red wine, 30 pieces of silver, a long winding sheet.
Can you not see an establishment stitching up a winding sheet for our freedoms in front of your very eyes?
Wrapped around the boy's face, the sheer material suggests both a bridal veil and a winding sheet.
My grandmother said, 'Why are you wearing that winding sheet?' I think it was a discovery of India and a discovery of me.
They sang, too, in the mortuary the next morning as the women unwrapped Mary from her winding sheet and washed and dressed her body for the grave.
Friars fearful of the men who slew him in battle buried the man in haste, naked and anonymous, without a winding sheet, rings or personal adornments of any kind, in a space so cramped his cloven skull was jammed upright and askew against the head of his shallow grave.
makes 'Autumn of the Patriarch' Garcia Marquez's most challenging novel; but it also makes it one of his most exciting". Ruch attributes this to the influence of James Joyce (he refers to "a winding sheet of endless words twisting through the tyrant's head like a macho version of Molly's soliloquy in 'Ulysses'Ulysses
