sepulture
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"Commending myself, a suppliant, to my great celestial patron Leo, I, Leo XII., his humble client, unworthy of so great a name, have chosen a place of sepulture, near his holy ashes."
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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 Katharine Lee Bates
As he was believed to be dead, upon the petition of the great men of England, his kinsmen, it was permitted that the monks of that place should give his body the rites of sepulture.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond
Cases of premature sepulture are, doubtless, extremely rare.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
Neither priests nor friars were to endeavor to get the laity to choose sepulture with either; and neither party was to assail or detract from the other in their sermons.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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