sepulture

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After willingly remaining some time here, beside this simple Christian tomb, we went to see an ancient place of Indian sepulture.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Might he not have risen in wrath out of his sarcophagus to see these frivolous moderns thus making merry in the place of his sepulture?

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

The mode of sepulture was that practiced by the natives of this continent.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

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

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