Crossword-Solution: CEREMENTS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The ghost of Athelstane himself would burst his bloody cerements and stand before us to forbid such dishonour to his memory.” It seemed as if Cedric’s words had raised a spectre; for, scarce had he uttered them ere the door flew open, and Athelstane, arrayed in the garments of the grave, stood before them, pale, haggard, and like something arisen from the dead! 59 The effect of this apparition on the persons present was utterly appalling.

The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.

The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.

Having poured it over him, they put him again into his bed, where he soon learned how a mummy must feel in its cerements.

Suddenly there rose before my mind a vision of that gloomy vault in Seville, of a woman, young and lovely, draped in cerements, and of a thin-faced black-robed friar who smote her upon the lips with his ivory crucifix and cursed her for a blaspheming heretic.