sepulture

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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

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 Lea, Henry Charles

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.

At the eastern end of both aisles, are two places, formerly appropriated as places of sepulture for the two great Lords of Ashby.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell

She requested to be buried like the sisters with whom she last resided, and so entirely were her wishes carried out that her place of sepulture is unknown.

From Famous European Artists by Bolton, Sarah K.