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In a short time I began to doubt whether the waking was more pleasant than the dreaming the vast ocean still spread itself before me like a mighty winding-sheet, the fair sky, beautiful as it appeared in the rays of the morning sun, I could only regard as a pall and our little bark was the coffin in which two helpless human beings, though still existing, were waiting interment.
The Colonel could augur nothing but ill from the hands to which he had been entrusted; and worse from the manner in which these savage, half-naked creatures, shambling beside him, stole from time to time a glance at him, as if they fancied they saw the winding-sheet high on his breast.
The dog had seen death before, and he evidently understood what it was. He did not move quickly or sniff about; he laid his head on the edge of the winding-sheet and moaned a little. The girl did not moan. She knelt down some way from the bed, with a desire to pray.
Thin wisps of mists were sweeping over the sea, veiling the stars. How God helps His little children who help Him! Up the shrouds of the foremast. The ratlines seared his feet. A little wind licked his body. The mist was chill as a winding-sheet. There was no danger of being seen. He was nearer the stars than the deck. Between him and it now lay a blanket of mist. But what was that in the East?
The snow was falling, and as the wreck was now motionless, this white lint made a cloth over the deck and covered the vessel as with a winding-sheet. The hold was becoming fuller and deeper no means of getting at the leak. They struck a light and fixed three or four torches in holes as best they could.
'I am not, therefore, dying for her love; and I give you this one honest warning that, though I would rather see mistress Dorothy in her winding-sheet than dame to a roundhead, I should be yes, I MAY be a more dangerous rival in respect of your mare, than of any lady YOU are likely to set eyes upon. 'What do you mean? said Richard gruffly.
After some time one of the Count's servants ventured to cover the dead body with a winding-sheet, and to surround it with lighted tapers; and there it remained lying on the pavement, until at last the Erembalds, who were afraid to bury it in Bruges lest the sight of the tomb of Charles the Good should one day rouse the townsmen to avenge his death, sent a message to Ghent, begging the Abbot of St.
From head to heel a casing housed it in, a casing that might have been anything at that hour of the night and in that strange place a shroud, if you like, a winding-sheet anything; and it is without shame that I confess to a creep of the most disagreeable sensation I have ever known as I stood at Hardenberg's side on that still, foggy night and watched the stirring of that nameless, formless shape standing gaunt and tall and grisly and wrapped in its winding-sheet upon the crosstrees of the foremast of the Idaho Lass.
I thought to myself that she might not, perhaps, be really dead; that she might only have feigned death for the purpose of bringing me to her castle, and then declaring her love. At one time I even thought I saw her foot move under the whiteness of the coverings, and slightly disarrange the long straight folds of the winding-sheet. And then I asked myself: 'Is this indeed Clarimonde?
The cold vapours lie like a winding-sheet down in the valleys until the sun smites them, warms them, and draws them up. And our desires will hover in the low levels, and be dank and damp, until they are drawn up to the heights by the warmth of the Sun of righteousness.
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