"Winding-sheet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moment by its feet, then let it slide into my arms, and lowered it on to the gravelled path. It was the body of John Emmet, in his winding-sheet. ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... encourager of idleness. It was connected with all that was most serious and all that was most delightful in life. It is difficult, indeed, to realize the delight which it gave, and the earnestness with which it was followed at this period, when it seemed, as by a miracle, to fling off the winding-sheet which had long wrapped its stiffened limbs, and to come forth ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various
... mould is my covering now, "But and my winding-sheet; "The dew it falls nae sooner down, "Than my resting-place ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... and composed his limbs," said Bianchon. "When the certificate has been officially registered at the Mayor's office, we will sew him in his winding-sheet and bury him somewhere. What do you ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I • Various
... body. "These being got, then without delay a choice painter was got to be in readiness to draw his picture, which was taken as followeth:—Several charcoal fires being first made in his large study, he brought with him into that place his winding-sheet in his hand, and, having put off all his clothes, had this sheet put on him, and so tied with knots at his head and feet, and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted to be shrouded and put into their coffin or grave. ...
— Old St. Paul's Cathedral • William Benham
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