Then her keel sank into the soft bottom and the murky water became her death shroud.
The white costumes represent death shrouds; the hats, tombstones.
In three minutes something heavy seemed to hang over the room like a death shroud and the faces of the assembly were drawn tight.
So Latham, almost every morning, stood by that window and watched the swirling gray eclipse his colony like some death shroud.
Her arm was trapped inside what was about to become her death shroud.
At one point, Khomeini's body almost falls to the ground, as the crowd attempt to grab pieces of the death shroud.
Like a dying animal, it gave a lurch to port and settled to the bottom as the black water drew a death shroud over the hull.
Tons of stone ringed him, and the blackness it sealed away was a death shroud.
"A black airplane resting beneath a watery death shroud."
Thick, still, and impenetrable, it lay, stretched across the earth like a death shroud.