place of interment

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One of the most curious objects in it was the Church of the Innocents, with its adjoining cemetery, once the main place of interment for all the capital.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

The remains were interred in a burial lot of Jacob Traber, who generously tendered its use until a separate place of interment and a monument could be procured.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Still standing in the grave, the chief received the bodies, one by one, from the men who had borne them to the place of interment.

From Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History by A. L. O. E.

There are plenty of inscriptions in English to be seen in Clonmacnois, for it is still used as a place of interment.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

The confessio in some cases reproduced the original place of interment of the patron saint, either in a catacomb-chapel or in an ordinary grave, and thus formed the sacred nucleus round which the church arose.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various