lay in the grave

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Olive had been told that when people died, it was their bodies only that lay in the grave, and their souls went up to heaven to be with God.

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.

Note here, too, the mystic history of Osiris, how he put on death; how he lay in the grave; and how, thus fulfilling a solemn atonement, he rose again from the dead!

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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 Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)

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 Dickens, Charles

Now, he was crucified on Friday and buried; he lay in the grave all Saturday, and rose early on Sunday morning.

From Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus by Sherlock, Thomas