ossuary
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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
He was buried in a specially designed crypt in the cathedral which he commissioned that will be the resting place of all future archbishops after the remains of their predecessors are transferred to an ossuary.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
One bone of contention for him — just one vertebra in an ossuary of contention, really — is that I have not made a pilgrimage to meet his new child.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
At the bottom of the principal path there was a little chapel which served for an ossuary.
From The Grip of Desire by Hector France
Lasting art can be mysterious and often misunderstood; this can also be said of ossuaries.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
His “Ruins of Rome” etchings depict landmarks like the Pantheon and the Castel Sant’Angelo, but its most famous images show rubble-strewn gardens and crumbling bridges, and tricorn-hatted gentlemen wandering through collapsed temples and overgrown ossuaries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
During that search, the two ossuaries were discovered under a trapdoor in the floor of a nearby building.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2019
The Vatican pledged further investigation and on Saturday a spokesman said they had “identified two ossuaries, located under the pavement of an area inside the Pontifical Teutonic College, covered by a manhole”.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2019
The old custom of way-side ossuaries contributed no doubt towards keeping strongly before the people the symbol and image of the great King.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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