How To Use Mausoleum In A Sentence
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In the public sphere, great public buildings, monuments, temples and mausoleums are a sign of excess.
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The most painful result of this shortage can be seen in mausoleums (small buildings for burial above ground) of cemeteries of Cairo, Egypt's capital city.
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We forget that many great works of art were not created for the mausoleums we call museums.
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We actually talked to a man who's been inside that mausoleum, and he said there are what he calls crypt keepers inside who keep the people who don't own property, as he put it, inside, or shouldn't be in there, they keep them out.
CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2009
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So selection always was task of paramount importance in the mausoleum construction.
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There would have to have been a change of plan, with the family mausoleum growing room by room from the original chamber designed for the pharaoh himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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So now when I go to one of our fabulous temples or palaces or mosques or mausoleums, I will see them for what they are.
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Because it's small, no one loathes it the way they hate the big-box stores that sit like pharonic mausoleums in a blacktop desert.
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Rather than being seen as a temple to art, the building was described as a mausoleum with cabbage on top.
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Alexander wanted to visit the newly completed temple to Athena in Priene, designed by Pythius himself, architect of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Alexander the Great
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Mausolus was a satrap, or governor, in the Persian Empire, and his fabled tomb is the source of the word "mausoleum.
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The crypt of the Romanesque-Gothic transitional Basilique Saint-Paul, which contains several Roman sarcophagi, is considered to have been the mausoleum of a wealthy family.
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Two years later, in the autumn of 23 BC, while the forty-year-old Augustus struggled to recover from a near-fatal illness, Marcellus himself died suddenly of a mysterious sickness at the age of twenty, widowing Julia and unexpectedly becoming the first occupant of the brand-new family mausoleum, now looming over the city like a 130-foot-high wedding cake.
Caesars’ Wives
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I have seen an ingenious model, contrived and executed by General Melville, which imitates or surpasses the art of antiquity.] 82 The description of this mausoleum, or mole, in Procopius, (l.i. c.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The mausoleum was a magnificent structure, perfectly round in shape with a row of fluted pillars supporting the overhanging roof.
"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 1
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Its main structures include the temple gate, memorial gateways, halls, wing-rooms, a mausoleum pavilion and a garden.
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Cemeteries, tombs, and mausoleums are described from the point of view of art history and archaeology.
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On 5 October 1999 remains were disentombed from a mausoleum crypt in Ohio.
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The mausoleum is plain brick on the outside: nothing prepares you for the mosaics on every surface inside, illuminated by windows of translucent marble.
The Road from Ravenna
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Emperors and officials of various dynasties including Emperor Qinshihuang in 210 BC made obeisance and offered sacrifices at the Mausoleum of Yu the Great.
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Whether the sounds registered on his conscious ear or on some unsounded deep of soul or sub-feeling, he could not tell, but he _knew_ that somewhere within his consciousness there re-echoed the tramp of monstrous feet from within that ghastly mausoleum.
People of the Dark
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As the trees grew the mausoleum no longer commanded a view of New York harbor.
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It was natural to bury the last emperor hastily close to the mausoleum when Qin toppled, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Yuan as saying.
Tomb of China’s Third and Last Qin Dynasty Emperor Discovered | Impact Lab
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The mausoleum of Selim II was a square structure, wrapped around an octangular upper story that was capped by a mottled lead dome.
The Thieves of Darkness
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And in my book-walled den, the mausoleum of the thoughts of men, I take my drink, and other drinks, and roust out the sleeping dogs from the recesses of my brain and hallo them on over the walls of prejudice and law and through all the cunning labyrinths of superstition and belief.
Chapter 36
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Ciro Fusco/European Pressphoto Agency HOLD YOUR NOSE: A police officer from Pozzuoli, Italy, descended a ladder Wednesday into an ancient Roman mausoleum discovered under an illegal toxic waste dump near Naples.
Photos of the Day: April 20
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The building is like that of Kuba, only smaller: and the hypostyle is hung with oil lamps and ostrich eggs, the usual paltry furniture of an Arab mausoleum.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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I was speaking with Sebastian the undertaker, who we found besotted with wine in the mausoleum yesterday evening.
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And having a gaudy mausoleum is not an impeachable offense.
Matthew Yglesias » Darrel Thompson Sure Can Quit Burris
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The city rose to this challenge, not with banks of sterile oven-slot tombs but with dazzlingly elaborate mausoleums.
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And while the Taj is a mausoleum, moribund except for the swarms of tourists and touts, the Golden Temple pulses with the energy of a thriving living community - the spiritual and temporal centre of the Sikh faith.
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Do not destroy the temples and mausoleums of the community and people who abide by the rules and laws of the government.
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A pine tree had fallen sideways into Lenin's Mausoleum, the building of which was streaked with more of that rusty red substance.
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There were people grieving by their family's mausoleums and crypts.
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We have one converted mausoleum that serves as the art house theatre.
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So she hired an attorney to handle the legalities of disinterment and sent remains from the mausoleum to a lab in
Remains Returned List WWII
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Broadway these days is a no man's land for new musicals, and a museum, a mausoleum, for old ones.
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Stalin's body was embalmed and was presently put on display with Lenin's corpse in the renamed Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum.
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For evidence of painted and vaulted porticoes, with a tribune above, which were used as royal mausoleums, we must look to eighth- and ninth-century Asturia.
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Massive in scale, three stories and fifty meters high, it appears as much a palace as a mausoleum.
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The mausoleum of Theodoric, a decagonal structure, covered with a great monolith thirty-six feet in diameter, is the monument that reveals Roman art in its purest form, at once austere and graceful.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Resting place to 560,000 people, the eerily serene hills of Green-Wood are filled with detailed columbaria, self-referential statues, and ornate mausoleums.
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They were walking up a hill path past a row of mausoleums, like miniature Palladian villas.
MURDER SONG
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It had evidently been a royal mausoleum.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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Fresh information on Sir Edwin Lutyens's first mausoleum, the Hannen columbarium at St Mary, Wargrave, Berkshire, is provided by correspondence published here for the first time by Oliver Bradbury.
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Officially, Russia seeks to lure tourists to its charms, which range from its rich cultural history to the anachronisms which are peculiarly its own, like Lenin's mausoleum, still faithfully guarded on Red Square.
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This house was chalky white and resembled a mausoleum.
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I lope along the driveway almost to Winchester, where I have left the Trekkie chained to railings set around a miniature mausoleum.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The boxiness of museums also suggests coffins, crypts, and mausoleums; museums are places of mourning as well as ecstatic communion.
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The mausoleum is part of a vast complex with a main gateway, garden, mosque, guesthouse and several other palatial buildings.
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Smaller edifices, like temples and mausoleums, were adapted bodily to their new office, while the larger ones, such as thermæ, theatres, circuses, and barracks were occupied in parts only.
Pagan and Christian Rome
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On balance, however, Mulligan paints a picture of great architectural variety and reveals many hidden treasures such as octagonal boathouses, a gothic mausoleum, old lime kilns, follies and mill buildings.
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Just inside the museum's front gate, a tree-shaded path lined with stone statues of civil servants and generals leads to the mausoleum.
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Located in the western wing of the Great Library, the resi - dence of the historian was small and, like all other rooms in the library, was filled with books of every type and binding, lining the shelves on the walls and giving the central living area a faint musty odor, like a mausoleum that had been sealed for centu - ries.
Time of the Twins
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The cemetery is so densely occupied that in many of the mausoleums, coffins are piled up to 10m high.
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It would be an interesting exercise to create an index of all of the ‘digital leavings’ of those who have left us, as a sort of memorial and electronic mausoleum.
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Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in the dense jungle, lush herb, flowers.
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It has also been suggested that the Romanesque crypt of the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Dromon may originally have been the mausoleum of Dardanus and his wife, Nevia Galla.
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There were people grieving by their family's mausoleums and crypts.
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Because it's small, no one loathes it the way they hate the big-box stores that sit like pharonic mausoleums in a blacktop desert.
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Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs.
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Kahler also discovered that the gatekeeper was using the mausoleum as a place for Taoist priests to hold their religious rites.
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It featured individuals and families who, because of divorce, bereavement, illness or some other trauma, had allowed their homes to become mausoleums of loss and longing.
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The reference library is quite unfrequented as a rule, like the mausoleum of a once-proud family that has died out.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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To qualify as worthy of preservation, particularly if public money is to be spent, buildings must be more than mausoleums.
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Was she under house arrest in her palace, or had she locked herself in her mausoleum?
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The grounds are primarily for the use of the proprietors, columbaria niche owners, mausoleum crypt owners and the families and friends of the deceased.
"...stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery..."
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Mao reposes in his mausoleum
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During the Samanid period, baked brick was used in the construction of mosques, minarets, and mausoleums; calligraphic inscriptions were used to decorate walls.
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Having botched the attempt, and learnt Cleopatra was still alive, he is supposed to have been carried to the mausoleum and winched by the women up through a window to expire after a fine speech in his lover's arms.
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The vanguards of style in this neck of the woods erected monstrosities that looked like mausoleums.
YELLOW BIRD
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One can see in Michelangelo's plan his intention of creating a temple-like mausoleum, complete with a tetrastyle/cum decastyle colonnaded entry raised on a podium.
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Thick carpet, subfusc curtains of pseudo-empire pattern and gilt-legged chairs combined to disseminate the atmosphere of a mausoleum.
The Nursing Home Murder
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Mr. Chairman and prize goose, -- The feelings which now agitate my sensorium on this Michaelmasian occasion stimulate the vibratetiuncles of the heartiean hypothesis, so as to paralyse the oracular and articulative apparatus of my loquacious confirmation, overwhelming my soul-fraught imagination, as the boiling streams of liquid lava, buried in one vast cinereous mausoleum -- the palace-crowded city of the engulphed Pompeii.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841
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Gardens, especially those surrounding a mausoleum, are often laid out in an eightfold shape reminiscent of Paradise.
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Father Bacchus at Teos, a monopteral; Arcesius, on the Corinthian proportions, and on the Ionic temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands; on the Mausoleum, Satyrus and
The Ten Books on Architecture
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Oh, did I mention the mausoleum is a virtual granite resume, since Mr. Burris has etched in great detail his every job title, accomplishment, award, and entire life as a permanent monument to ... himself?
Blago Has Been Impeached
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The great white marble dome of the mausoleum is flanked by free-standing minarets from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer.
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Such a burial in a newly built mausoleum church or chapel would have been quite in keeping with the age.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hadrian survived his wife by barely a year, dying at Baiae on 10 July 138, at age sixty-two, possibly of coronary heart disease.52 In 139 his remains were dug up from their temporary resting place in the gardens of Domitia and reinterred in his just completed fifty-meter-high mausoleum overlooking the Tiber, alongside those of Sabina.
Caesars’ Wives
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The others were Diana's Temple at Ephesus, the Tomb of Mau-so´lus (which was so fine that any handsome tomb is sometimes called a mausoleum), the
The Story of the Greeks
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The great white marble dome of the mausoleum is flanked by free-standing minarets from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer.
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Ancient historians acquaint us with only seven wonders in the world: the Temple of Diana, at Ephesus; the magnificent sepulchre of the king Mausolus, from whence is derived the word mausoleum; the bronze Colossus of the Sun, in Rhodes; the statue of
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)
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Herma's mausoleum was one of the most remarkable discoveries of Roman antiquity.
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According to above analysis, I summary characteristics of the institutional archetype Qian Mausoleum of Tang dynasty.
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Wang's mausoleum was sacked soon after his kingdom was toppled.