lay in the grave

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.

From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I am a good ten years older than the man we are to lay in the grave.

From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by G. H. (George Henry) Edwards

We felt that it was hard to lay in the grave the form of our dear friend; it was hard to part with the casket which had enshrined the precious jewel.

From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

So long as Christ lay in the grave there was no assurance that His redemptive work had been acceptable to God.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans

The words apply in their fullness only to the parenthesis of time whilst He lay in the grave, and the disciples despairingly thought that all was ended.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren