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Updated: June 11, 2025
There she stands to avouch it Nay, blush not, kinswoman, there is no shame in loving a courtly knight better than a country franklin and do not laugh neither, Rowena, for grave-clothes and a thin visage are, God knows, no matter of merriment Nay, an thou wilt needs laugh, I will find thee a better jest Give me thy hand, or rather lend it me, for I but ask it in the way of friendship.
On Christmas Eve everybody in Ghostland who IS anybody or rather, speaking of ghosts, one should say, I suppose, every nobody who IS any nobody comes out to show himself or herself, to see and to be seen, to promenade about and display their winding-sheets and grave-clothes to each other, to criticise one another's style, and sneer at one another's complexion.
Lady Laura herself was not yet completely emancipated from what her friends sometimes called the grave-clothes of so-called Revelation. To her it seemed a profound truth that things could be true and untrue simultaneously that what might be facts on This Side, as she would have expressed it, might be falsehoods on the Other.
Ascending then the mountain, many a ridge, Oft resting on the way, he reached the summit, Where the dead corse of an old saint appeared Wrapt in his grave-clothes, and in gems imbedded. In gold and precious jewels glittering round, Seeming to show what man is, mortal man! Wealth, worldly pomp, the baubles of ambition, All left behind, himself a heap of dust!
Whatever they might be to others and he judged no man for him with his peculiar nature they could never be life-vestments; they would become his spiritual grave-clothes. The parallel went a little way further: that scant faltering green! that unconquerable effort of the tree to assert despite all deadening experiences its old wildwood state! Could he do the like, could he go back to his?
In fact, at that moment she was being robed in her grave-clothes by two attendants at the Union poorhouse the first and last tiring-women the gentle creature had ever been honoured with. The quarter went, the half hour.
To ensure a long life the Chinese have recourse to certain complicated charms, which concentrate in themselves the magical essence emanating, on homoeopathic principles, from times and seasons, from persons and from things. The vehicles employed to transmit these happy influences are no other than grave-clothes.
"The simple power of necessity is to a certain degree a principle of beauty," says M. Bourget, and to these structures this order of beauty cannot be denied, but even this is vitiated by a failure to press the advantage home: the ornate façades are notably less impressive than those whose grim and stark geometry is unmitigated by the grave-clothes of dead styles.
"I've been putting by for it for twenty years now, for I'd like to leave the world in a decent way, and without pulling the clothes off my relations' backs. My grave-clothes are all ready, too, for I've got my wedding chemise lying by. It's only been used once, and more than that and my cap I don't want to have on." "But that's so little," objected Maria.
Haydon began his new career by painting the 'portrait of a gentleman. 'Ah, my poor lay-figure, he groans, 'he, who bore the drapery of Christ and the grave-clothes of Lazarus, the cloak of the centurion and the gown of Newton, was to-day disgraced by a black coat and waistcoat.
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