sepulture
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It is not unusual to find, on such occasions, a special clause, in the conveyance, for their protection, and for the perpetual tabooing of the place of sepulture.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
Might he not have risen in wrath out of his sarcophagus to see these frivolous moderns thus making merry in the place of his sepulture?
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
But who art thou that lookest forth sublime, 2690 A soul upsoaring as from sepulture, Body and spirit pure and free from stain, As gold and silver tried by seven-timed fire?
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney
In the matter of royal sepulture, it is certain that the whale had an immense advantage.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
Moreover, from the date of the peace of Paris until the end of his life he earnestly and vainly endeavored to obtain from Rome permission for the sepulture of his father’s body.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
