sepulture

Example Sentences

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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)

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

This done, he recited another prayer, pronounced a solemn benediction over the place of sepulture, and the body was lowered into it.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

In the matter of royal sepulture, it is certain that the whale had an immense advantage.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

The Indians tell you that it was a place of sepulture, and the Mexicans give you the universal reply of ignorance in this country: Quien Sabe?—who knows? who can tell?”

From Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World by Anonymous