lay in the grave

Example Sentences

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Note here, too, the mystic history of Osiris, how he put on death; how he lay in the grave; and how, thus fulfilling a solemn atonement, he rose again from the dead!

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But I was going upon the tamest possible excursion; for the first time in my life I was submitting to the direction of another, —albeit one who lay in the grave.

From The House of a Thousand Candles by Nicholson, Meredith

Only since he lay in the grave have ye again arisen.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

She had taken her daughter to Egypt; she had dwindled there till there was little more than a skeleton to lay in the grave.

From Esther Waters by Moore, George (George Augustus)

He tried to summon up courage to tell her the story of his marriage, that his hopes, his heart, and his love all lay in the grave of his young wife.

From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Libbey, Laura Jean