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"Shroud" in a Sentence (30 examples)
Some say the Shroud of Turin is a photo made by Leonardo da Vinci using a camera obscura.
He is surrounded by a shroud of mourning.
She bought a shroud for herself long before she died.
"Look now, for I will clear the mists that shroud / thy mortal gaze, and from the visual ray / purge the gross covering of this circling cloud. / Thou heed, and fear not, whatsoe'er I say, / nor scorn thy mother's counsels to obey."
The shroud obscured the dancer's face.
"Nay, when thy vessels, ranged upon her shore, / rest from the deep, and on the beach ye light / the votive altars, and the gods adore, / veil then thy locks, with purple hood bedight, / and shroud thy visage from a foeman's sight, / lest hostile presence, 'mid the flames divine, / break in, and mar the omen and the rite."
The stars were chased, and blushing rose the day. / Dimly, at distance through the misty shroud / Italia's hills and lowlands we survey, / "Italia," first Achates shouts aloud: / "Italia," echoes from the joyful crowd.
The shroud has no pockets.
A special online exhibition of the Shroud of Turin took place on Holy Saturday.
People forced to stay at home will be able to watch the livestreamed prayer service along with live images of the shroud.
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swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]
Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
This is Radio Clash, you don't need that funeral shroud
Jura answers through her misty shroud.
The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
a vault, or shroud, as under a church
Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.
The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
Moon ſlip behind ſome Cloud, ſome Tempeſt riſe / And blovv out all the Stars that light the Skies, / To ſhrovvd my ſhame.
As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
There's a shadow just behind me Shrouding every step I take Making every promise empty Pointing every finger at me Waiting like a stalking butler Who upon the finger rests Murder now the path of must we Just because the son has come
If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.
Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.
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