sepulture

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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 Whitney, Orson F.

The parish churches at last came to claim the bodies of their parishioners as a matter of right, and to deny to the dying the privilege of electing a place of sepulture.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

As he was believed to be dead, upon the petition of the great men of England, his kinsmen, it was permitted that the monks of that place should give his body the rites of sepulture.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de

The central picture represents a dead Christ, surrounded by the men and women who ministered to him, preparing him for sepulture.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

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