sepulture

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The first glance reveals that the building must have been in a high degree esteemed a place of sepulture.

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.

The arca, or family sepulture, can no longer be traced in the church.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

The place of sepulture of Luigia de' Medici is unknown; her remains were most probably deposited, without monumental inscription, in the vaults of San Lorenzo, the gentilizia church of her house.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

Here are four rooms filled with the works of Goya—whose bones, by the way, arrived in Madrid from France for final 290 sepulture a few days before the celebration.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

Occasionally, when the site of a graveyard has become known to others than these local Ainu, the place is deserted, and a fresh place of sepulture is chosen.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage