sepulture

Example Sentences

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In this capacity he issues edicts for the service of heathen sepulture, for the repairing of heathen temples, for the support of heathen priests.

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.

This done, he recited another prayer, pronounced a solemn benediction over the place of sepulture, and the body was lowered into it.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

One of the chapels in the transept to the left of the high altar gives sepulture to the aged martyr.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

The bodies were brought to the place of sepulture in open coffins, with their faces uncovered.

From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William

The arca, or family sepulture, can no longer be traced in the church.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo