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    1. becoming an oppressive shroud on the world, especially in the late afternoon dusk,


    2. I sat alone under the black shroud of my hood and counted out the next few minutes of solitude by listening to my own breathing


    3. To see a shroud in your dream symbolizes death or the end of something


    4. It was only after those few seconds that he noticed the shroud of blindness upon the Imperial’s left eye, and the surrounding scars


    5. We would be able to use those as a shroud for her body


    6. Once finished doing what we could for her appearance, we began to wrap her in her shroud of tablecloths until only her face remained uncovered


    7. Mary grabbed at the makeshift shroud until she uncovered Becky's face, letting out a wail when she finally laid eyes on her


    8. And as Skelda dreamt his dreams of power, savouring his dominion over all badgers, the sun slid behind the horizon, bringing the moon's dark shroud across Brockenhurst Forest


    9. Along with these tenuous feelings went a shroud of coldness emanating from the cave deep below Fire Rock, the cave where even now, a beautiful orb span madly, gathering speed as its destiny neared completion


    10. The old waiter entered the room with another trolley, this one much longer and covered with a white shroud

    11. Whatever protective shroud she possessed was dissipating rapidly


    12. Normally, the remains are covered in a sheet or shroud only and buried without a coffin


    13. In many countries around the world, one is allowed to cover the body in a shroud only


    14. (If there is somebody, familiar with the regulations in South-Africa on this subject, please let me know, I would appreciate it very much) I know that Muslims don’t bury in a coffin, but only in a shroud


    15. Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the


    16. A flustered Trevor became a little angrier at the shroud of


    17. Moral guidance based upon that faith, established to formulate and assure civic order, lies buried under a shroud of judicial fabrication and usurpation


    18. He lay on the big double poster antique bed draped in white material like a shroud, and watched her go


    19. He lost sight of the MiG as it slid behind the instrument shroud in front of him, but directly at Frederick's eleven o'clock position as seen from their inverted position


    20. hung like a shroud and hid the moon and stars; Two: A gale raised

    21. opened and a rolled shroud was unrolled to cover the front of his body


    22. tucked the shroud in around the edges


    23. shroud in his casket


    24. He squinted hard, and the black shroud began to form


    25. the roof and saw that the black shroud had now vanished


    26. has become a shroud that will wrap a cadaver


    27. hidden but a breath away, underneath a shroud of misunderstanding that exists within


    28. Annabeth’s shroud was so beautiful-gray silk with embroidered owls-I told her it seemed a shame not to bury her in it


    29. Being the son of Poseidon, I didn’t have any cabin mates, so the Ares cabin had volunteered to make my shroud


    30. My sole, inadequate defence has been to attempt concealment under a shroud of conformity

    31. And that would be forgetfulness, which hides thy Light beneath a shroud reducing ye to think a lie: ye are not Light, but only flesh


    32. His face was like white porcelain and matched the silk white shroud that covered all but his face


    33. He felt insides start to settle, like a warm shroud of calm encompassing his body


    34. It only took several hours for the cells to bind with the plain DNA cells and once the shroud had been removed, a white, living breathing rat stood motionless on the pad


    35. They wrapped the corpse in a shroud, together with a death certificate and a written burial permission for the Behesh-e Zahra Cemetery


    36. They moved the replicant from the oven pad into the bed in the ward and wrapped the shroud of life around it, in preparation for the final process


    37. conceal the stars within a smoky shroud


    38. Elise shivered and all vestige of survival abandoned her as the shroud of mortality descended


    39. Our home planet was like a shroud compared to Earth


    40. would shine briefly from beyond a shroud of doom

    41. cover the entire body with a white shroud, one or two pieces


    42. Friend of the dispossessed, shroud of evil, accessory to theft, violence, drunkenness, lust


    43. It was around that time that Amaranta started sewing her own shroud


    44. Amaranta was weaving her shroud


    45. Her life was spent in weaving her shroud


    46. At home, Amaranta was weaving her interminable shroud and Úrsula dragged about in her decrepitude through the depths of the shadows where the only thing that was still visible was the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía under the chestnut tree


    47. No one in the house realized that at that time Amaranta was sewing a fine shroud for Rebeca


    48. She would manufacture a beautiful corpse, with the linen shroud and a plush--lined coffin with purple trim


    49. Death did not tell her when she was going to die or whether her hour was assigned before that of Rebeca, but ordered her to begin sewing her own shroud on the next sixth of April


    50. Her only objective was to finish the shroud














































    1. Little by little, masses and forms started to regain a relative solidity, and all was soon shrouded in a deep purple twilight


    2. A dreary mist had shrouded everything that morning in Sulis Min, it had tasted of damp and woodsmoke and loss


    3. Miss Jones, as the last of her line, lived a quiet and shrouded life that was bounded by the tightness of good old-fashioned values and good old-fashioned friends


    4. shrouded life that was bounded by the tightness of good old-


    5. It was all shrouded in the utmost secrecy


    6. Mute: The nickname given to a shrouded figure, seemingly aligned with the ern


    7. ’ She could see him now – as the room faded – shrouded in mist, or perhaps it was a nebular


    8. The reality of it, even to Torbin, was still shrouded in theoretical multidimensional quantum resonance


    9. to an arm shrouded in a black sleeve that, although clearly meant to be baggy, was tied around the


    10. The face of the asteroid began to resemble a comet head, shrouded in a cloud of dust and

    11. The breadth of them was shrouded in mist, giving the impression that they stretched into infinity


    12. “Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, young Miss,” said the Tinker, still shrouded in azalea foliage


    13. The dead were shrouded in blankets or tent fabric, and were laid in reverse rows in a large pit


    14. As my hiccupping grew softer, the shrouded silence of the empty apartments pressed down around me until I thought I would smother under its weight


    15. Agonizingly, he wrenched the arm all the while speaking into her ear, saying ugly, hateful things that registered not as words which could be recalled, but rather as unspeakable evil shrouded in pain which would never be forgotten


    16. Even while shrouded in darkness, he exuded a warm confidence that Ganesh could palpably feel


    17. block was shrouded in deathly silence


    18. unique colours and shrouded in the mist of Mako fumes


    19. There a fresh grave had been dug and father’s shrouded body lay next to the grave


    20. The walls were black and crumbling, and silence shrouded the yard

    21. plumes of lava shot high into the sky, the shrouded scenery was lit up all around from the spew of its hot contents as it slowly


    22. It was barely high enough for the pair of them and the darkness shrouded the rest of the miserable enclave


    23. I saw him appear, crouch from the dark shadows that shrouded his immortal form into the illumination cast onto my tiled floor from a moon that was desperate to become plump


    24. I turned around, desperately searching for the source of the voice hidden, interwoven, shrouded behind the mass of bodies that swallowed me


    25. My abuse has always been so heavily shrouded in religion that I


    26. The feeling of being stalked or watched shrouded her thoughts


    27. While rapidly being shrouded by the


    28. was glad of the darkness that shrouded his stumbling effort to regain his land legs


    29. “Now why would a figure shrouded in mystery and riddled in


    30. It was shrouded in a murky green mist, but as it got closer, the campers and Hunters gasped

    31. Before I reached the bottom of the steps, my eyes were instantly drawn to that same shrouded patch across the way


    32. In the Duat, he was shrouded in flickering gray linen—mummy cloth


    33. It lives only in cloud forests, which are a unique high-elevation tropical forest type that is almost always shrouded in mist


    34. Or maybe it’s you they don’t trust, all shrouded in mystery and power, your ‘farm’ now turned into a fortress


    35. Now, shrouded in a sable cloak, spewing curses like a sea captain, it was impossible to tell he was not a man at all


    36. The head rolled out of the hewn-off, sable hood that had shrouded the demon for centuries


    37. The house was shrouded in the sadness of abandonment


    38. These tenets emerged warily from Elise‘s shrouded memory but offered little comfort since they represented her only weapon


    39. The oaks bordering the area shrouded out the departing sun and cast darkness over the hatchback and the red Saab sitting across the lot with eight or ten staff cars


    40. was washed, shrouded, embalmed, and placed where the

    41. In the hot parlor, beside the specter of the pianola shrouded in a white sheet, Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not sit down that time inside the chalk circle that his aides had drawn


    42. “Release!” she said, and a rock the size of a small child shrouded in dust and pebbles blasted from the land seal


    43. Zigzagging and jerking around crazily to avoid the German bombs, the BARRACUDA still received a direct hit between two of its shrouded propellers


    44. Though generally skeptical about such mysterious powers, the reporters were all unable to reasonably explain her achievements, and so she remained shrouded in doubt and admiration by the majority but was exalted as a clairvoyant by the minority that respected and genuinely believed in her abilities


    45. They are lofty, often shrouded


    46. His sigh, that relaxed his lungs that had been apprehensively holding his breath for several moments, seemed to break the silence that brought a sadness and sorrow to the suite as an apparent result of the unpleasant acts that had occurred here in the last twenty-four hours; however, the rainbow of light from the crystal chandelier added a joyous and regal sense to the otherwise-miserable stigma upon the lovely place that was shrouded in darkness, like a tomb, by the heavy drapes that had already been drawn, obviously by the other constables or the maintenance crew earlier in the day


    47. With the heavy drapes drawn to shield the bright moonlight, the Carolinian Suite was completely shrouded in darkness that evening, though there was a slight indication of movement such as the rustling of clothing from within


    48. ����������� Its catamaran hull lifting nearly completely out of the water as air pressure built up between its bow and stern rubber skirts, the FLYING FISH soon moved away from the quay, propelled by its three shrouded contra-rotating propellers


    49. He was flat on his back, the lines of his body shrouded in sheet


    50. The Hood’s condition could be likened to all intents and purposes as a microcosm of the British Empire at that time; ancient, glorious, biggest in the world, shrouded in ceremony, but hopelessly out of date and defective











































    1. shrouding the peaks, he said a silent prayer of thanks to


    2. ’ Zolla then went on to explain the process of temporal acceleration: ‘It’s done simply by creating a self-contained gravitational field shrouding the entire ship,’ he said, as if describing some every day occurrence


    3. The morning light was dim, rain shrouding any lights that might have been showing from the houses dotted along the shore


    4. Picking up the controller from on top of the applicator unit’s shrouding, Fred got down to brass tacks; and began to run the machine back and forth, around and around on the Wheatley’s extensive lawn


    5. Shadows are growing longer, and darkness is shrouding the isolated cemetery


    6. Fighting against the cloak of shadows shrouding her just below consciousness, Jesse tried to open her eyes


    7. By his side, she stared out at the thick darkness shrouding the moon and stars in its gloom


    8. A pea soup fog crept out to welcome them, shrouding the river


    9. Though that was a logical explanation, there were still a number of questions and a mysterious air shrouding Preacher Cooper who stood with his arms crossed as he cynically studied his approaching visitor


    10. There was an uncanny stillness shrouding The Stables estate as the police vehicle stopped on the forecourt between the villa and the line of horse boxes where the prize livestock were normally housed

    11. Not content with shrouding his wife, he cold-shoulders the trespasser as if to nip his passion in the bud


    12. What with the materialistic veil shrouding our love life, I tried to fill my emotional void in an extramarital affair without knowing that I became incapable of inspiring love


    13. The other was of being trapped on a rock in the midst of a wide, raging river, the night shrouding her surroundings in shadowy, violent blackness


    14. He slowed his pace as he realized how dark it was inside the trees, shrouding out any moonlight


    15. I sat poorly on the floor completely taken aback with darkness all around my intelligence shrouding my thinking capability


    16. Paint flaked off front doors and the brick facades were no longer their original red-brown but had turned almost black thanks to the soot permanently shrouding our city


    17. Instead, she stared at a small pale face with hair shrouding her like the tarinium's huge mushroom head


    18. While he waited, he thought again that she was beautiful, her long, dark lashes shrouding her thoughts


    19. drew close to it and sat together, shrouding the light with their hooded


    20. Somewhere in the smoke shrouding the rooftop, Carroll heard voices

    21. Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie


    22. The great point was now that I understood the man, and I even felt, and was almost vexed at feeling, that it had all turned out to be so simple : I had always in my heart set that man on a supreme pinnacle, in the clouds, and had insisted on shrouding his life in mystery,


    1. Under a sturdy arch there were two big vats in here with little firebrick hearths under them and chimney shrouds around them


    2. To reduce thickness of shrouds of atomic power stations and factories that produce isotopes along with normal weight concrete extra heavy concrete with specific gravity from 2500


    3. The orbital grid was still intact; but as with the enemy, these could be circumvented using cloaking shrouds


    4. Blended into those fluttering shrouds mysterious sounds could be heard that somehow


    5. Where tangled foliage shrouds the crying bird,


    6. According to camp tradition, we wore laurel wreaths to a big feast prepared in our honor, then led a procession down to the bonfire, where we got to burn the burial shrouds our cabins had made for us in our absence


    7. Help humanity break down the wall that shrouds us from truth


    8. They all were wrapped in white shrouds with red martyr headbands and explosive belts


    9. shrouds were removed from the new ships’ view ports


    10. The four pusher propellers slid out of their shrouds on the trailing edge of the wings and began to spin

    11. Xiphias waxed gibbous above them, sending silvery shadows through the cables, sheets and shrouds, antimony sprites that seemed to man the rigging with quicksilver limbs


    12. The wind moaned tortuously in the shrouds and the hull complained with groans and cracks every time they rode out another wave


    13. He would stand by the foremast shrouds, looking out at his nemesis as it bled into the hated Smug, these two symbols of light and life being one in their antithesis to the tenebrous captain's deathly, black, bubonic loathing


    14. White shrouds everything


    15. Cherrie shrouds her face with her hand


    16. She said that in order to mend his spirit he must ‘weave shrouds for the murderers with the victims’ choices


    17. The glow of the moon could barely be seen between the shrouds of trees


    18. Fashion didn't touch shrouds; they always stayed the same


    19. The whitewashing of dead human bodies: burying dead corpses covered in white shrouds, the whitewashing of white marble statues


    20. telltales on the shrouds and a smell of sea and voyaging thrilled through me; it was a

    21. was expected to fly, at the word of command, as if to man the shrouds, or mount


    22. We were in the presence of a ship whose severed shrouds still hung from their clasps


    23. "Oh," added a third voice, "the shrouds of the Chateau d'If are not dear!"


    24. Those poor men leaped up into the shrouds, clung to the masts, writhed beneath the waters


    25. The bodies had to be washed, the shrouds sewn for the poor, the coffins nailed lor the rich, the graves dug and the priests paid


    26. The first body was in a coffin, but the rest were in shrouds on biers


    27. Caris saw some muddy white material that looked like the oiled linen sometimes used for shrouds


    28. And the talk, the wonderful talk flowed on—or was it speech entirely, or did it pass at times into song—chanty of the sailors weighing the dripping anchor, sonorous hum of the shrouds in a tearing North-Easter, ballad of the fisherman hauling his nets at sundown against an apricot sky, chords of guitar and mandoline from gondola or caique? Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail? All these sounds the spell-bound listener seemed to hear, and with them the hungry complaint of the gulls and the sea-mews, the soft thunder of the breaking wave, the cry of the protesting shingle


    29. Next moment the steamer would have passed on, leaving the lighter to sink or swim after having shouldered her thus out of her way, and without even getting a glimpse of her form, had it not been that, being deeply laden with stores and the great number of people on board, her anchor was low enough to hook itself into one of the wire shrouds of the lighter's mast


    30. Behind loomed up the Buck Hill; and out of it, through stray shrouds

    31. Some clung to the Shrouds straining to see what had become of other Ships around us (as if that might portend our Fate) and some hung on to the Yards like veritable Monkies, essaying to straighten the torn and flapping Sails; others scurried to man the Pumps, shouting that all was lost, we should surely founder; and still others fell to bended Knee in Pray’r


    32. Prue clings to the Shrouds with the screaming Babe at her Waist; the whole Battle stops in Medias Res to observe this most terrifying Sight


    33. Horatio leaps into Action and scales the Shrouds behind Prue Feral—whereupon she climbs higher, whereupon Horatio follows


    34. The Shrouds tower above like Cathedral Windows; the Masts sway like Trees in a Forest of Giants


    35. How have I wrong’d her? What Lessons have I drawn upon myself that I should lose my Child after such a long and perilous Chase? Prue leaps from the Shrouds into the savage Sea with the screaming Babe lasht to her pond’rous Waist


    36. Behind his leonine Head I see the first Glimmerings of a Rainbow, broken, ’tis true, by the Masts and Shrouds of the Happy Delivery—but a Rainbow nonetheless


    37. The wind is high… I can hear it in the shrouds, and the bow throws back the foam


    38. And the great shrouds of music came out of the lab at any time of the day or night


    39. It was cold; the freezing shrouds twanged in the wind like great harp strings plucked by a demented giant, and the yards groaned their complaint to the tugging sails


    40. Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank

    41. But presently, catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to the deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, "Dinner, Mr


    42. It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I idly swayed in what seemed an enchanted air


    43. Suddenly bubbles seemed bursting beneath my closed eyes; like vices my hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gracious agency preserved me; with a shock I came back to life


    44. To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when God's burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage


    45. Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch


    46. The more he comprehended this phenomenon, the more did it become unveiled; the shrouds fell off, and all there was left was its terrible consequences and its still more terrible reality


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    Synonyms for "shroud"

    cerement pall shroud winding-clothes winding-sheet mainsheet sheet tack weather sheet cover enshroud hide conceal obscure veil screen covering garment cloth

    "shroud" definitions

    a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute


    (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind


    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped


    cover as if with a shroud


    form a cover like a shroud


    wrap in a shroud