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Letter "W" » winding-sheet
«His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, His finger on all flowing waters sweet Forbidding lay - motion nor sound was there - Nature lay frozen dead - and still and slow, A winding sheet fell o'e»
Author: Frances Anne Kemble
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arrows, crouch, crouched, flowing, forbidding, frozen, pierced, sheet, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, slow motion, winding-sheet, winding
«It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.»
«At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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churchyard, churchyards, Iron Gate, tolls, tombstones, winding-sheet
«The harlot's cry from street to street / Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.»
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