How To Use Sepulchral In A Sentence
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One might mention an object or a locality, and sepulchral silence would descend.
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the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
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Of greatest concern to me was a certain unmistakable foetor—that same dusty, sepulchral stench from my dream!
Abomination at the Shilkie
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Now our stone may differ a little from the general run of Holed Stones found in many of the sepulchral monuments to be found in Western Europe to India.
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_First_, He laid down that the term pyramid was misapplied, as the term referred only to figures and structures of a special mathematical form; being apparently quite unaware that, as shown in the text and notes, pp. 219 and 220, it was often applied archæologically to sepulchral mounds and erections that were not faced, and which did not consist of a series of triangles meeting in an apex.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
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Here, when you enter his gloomy penetralia, and invoke his services, the sable-clad and cadaverous- featured shopman asks you, in a sepulchral voice-we are not writing romance, but simple fact - whether you are to be suited for inextinguishable sorrow, or for mere passing grief; and if you are at all in doubt upon the subject, he can solve the problem for you, if you lend him your confidence for the occasion. . .
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hollow sepulchral tones
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Climbing on to the roof one winter night, knowing they were sitting round the fire, he called down the chimney in a sepulchral voice, ‘Joseph and Elizabeth, the Lord commandeth thee to go to the Salt Lake City.’
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More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepulchral cells of pismires, and practice of bees, — which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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A writer-caretaker who, snowbound in this sepulchral hell, eventually loses it, his descent into madness is displayed through the most perversely witty of character arcs.
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The whole ensemble has a sepulchral quality, and it is no surprise to learn that the work was created in memory of the artist's father, who died last year.
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Mother and son lie together, sepulchral white sheets covering them, rejoined in a kind of death, and David can finally close his eyes and dream.
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He made his way along the sepulchral corridors to the entrance hall, where the receptionist gave him a bright smile.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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sepulchral inscriptions
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The sepulchral lamps speak nothing less than sepulture, and in their literal draughts prove often obscene and antick pieces.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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The sepulchral boom of the bittern, the shriek of the curlew, the scream of passing brant, the wrangling of quarrelsome teal, the sharp querulous protest of the startled crane, and syllabled complaint of the "killdeer" plover were beyond the power of written expression.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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The figure of Christ, his sepulchral pallor set off by a shroud of tender pink, confronts the viewer with awesome directness.
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That tide of agricultural improvement which has passed over the country, has, in its utilitarian course, swept away -- sometimes inevitably, often most needlessly -- the aggers and ditches of ancient camps, sepulchral barrows and mounds, stone circles and cairns, earth-raths, and various other objects of deep antiquarian interest.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
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The tenuous suggestion that Stonehenge may thus be a sepulchral monument, is perhaps strengthened by the large number of burial mounds in the surrounding landscape.
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These Germans have only dropped the speed and abrasion in seeking a new kind of heavy/scary and formulating their unique style of sepulchral lounge jazz.
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It just got better and better as each story added new dots to connect and a vast world of eldritch, foetid, blasphemous, nefandous, sepulchral imagination seemed to be slowly revealing itself.
PVS and HPL
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In the sepulchral monuments their names were preserved, and in the performance of sacred rites, and the holding of games, fairs, and assemblies in their honour, the memory of their achievements kept fresh, till the traditions that clung around these places were inshrined in tales which were finally incorporated in the Leabhar na Huidhré and the
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.
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C. Lefevre's 1907 monument in Paris for Emile Levassor, who died in a car crash, employed the full repertoire of classical sepulchral art.
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At night other sounds are heard, less agreeable to the ear: the shrill "chirrup" of cicadas and tree-toads ringing so incessantly, that only when they cease do you become conscious of their existence; the dull "gluck-gluck" of the great bullfrog; the sharp cries of the heron and _qua-bird_; and the sepulchral screech of the great horned owl.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
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One is reminded of the painted marble disc of the doctor Aineas, of late Archaic date, but that almost certainly was a sepulchral monument, and in any case can never have been mounted on a pillar in this fashion.
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The tone of his voice was dark and sepulchral, like the gusting of a distant wind.
KING OF DREAMS
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Lee's sepulchral tones and commanding presence made the architect of evil a character to relish.
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The sad fact is, plenty of high-performing companies have positively sepulchral atmospheres, with employees who pretty much loathe their cipherlike existences.
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The men halted and whipped around to see a sepulchral ghost approach them.
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The sepulchral hyper-meticulousness of his previous film is here opened up with the wide coastal and oceanic setting.
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II. 3.e] Some find sepulchral vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into jellies.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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Tell us the worst, they said - and when I did, the silence was sepulchral.
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A maze of sterile-looking, particle-board cubicles had been erected in the room and the lights dimmed to a sepulchral twilight.
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He speaks in resigned, sepulchral tones, and seems to have a strange affinity toward shadows and corners.
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In the sepulchral gloom of the strip club two other dancers are substituted.
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sepulchral monuments in churches
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Shafts of direct sunlight are carefully choreographed to shine down directly onto the altar, their intensity emphasized by the sepulchral semi-darkness of the surroundings.
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A sidelight cast a sepulchral glow through the lily-white curtains that hung at her new patio doors.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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It was a delightful characterisation, underpinned by that wonderfully dark and sepulchral voice, used musically and never overdone.
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The funeral was a sepulchral mix of tears, pain, and black clothes.
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I don't want to make this sound too sepulchral, because it's supposed to be fun telly, but at the same time we just can't help being amazed at the people we do it for, and the community commitment they have.
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The author of a treatise on sepulchral urns lately discovered in Norfolk was moved to comment.
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More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepulchral cells of pismires, and practice of bees, — which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Old relics dotted the entrance beyond; knots of yarn and wool rippled, brightly-colored etchings which reflected dully in the sepulchral gloom.
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Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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He has a point: it would hardly be right to wear a sparkly suit and tight trousers while singing stark, sepulchral songs about death, pain and sorrow in a voice like the wind whistling through his old Appalachian bones.
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Burton still sleep in sepulchral pomp in their marmorean Arab Tent at Mortlake.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Someone sitting on a vinyl picnic chair in a rumpled gray robe sat with his back to the door, long legs dangling over a four-foot tall ornamental railing built from a row of white sepulchral urns.
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But the wealthy Egyptian more commonly provided for the future of his Ka by bequeathing a portion of his estate to the priesthood, in prepayment for sepulchral meals in perpetuity.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
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By many this isolated rock is considered the arx or citadel of Veii; but the existence of so many sepulchral caves in it is, as Mr. Dennis says, conclusive of the fact that it was the Necropolis of the ancient city, which must therefore, according to Etruscan and Roman usage regarding the interment of the dead, have been outside the walls.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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He does not, it must be said, match one's idea of a funeral director, being neither gaunt nor sepulchral.
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There are four _Sepulchral Brasses_ on the floor of the chantries.
A Short Account of King's College Chapel
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Sepulchrals are sacred undead and wield magical obsidian glaives.
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You wouldn't think it appropriate in this day and age to describe a voice on a telephone as sepulchral, would you?
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+ Some find sepulchral vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into jellies.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
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Much additional information can, however, be learnt from sepulchral sculpture, prints and drawings, paintings and memento mori jewellery.
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The sepulchral boom of the bittern, the shriek of the curlew, the scream of passing brent, the wrangling of quarrelsome teal, the sharp, querulous protest of the startled crane, and syllabled complaint of the "killdeer" plover, were beyond the power of written expression.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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Cue Albertz on Friday, bursting into the Sunday assembly and bearding my colleague, the sepulchral Hugh Keevins, accusing him of invention, hyperbole and all manner of crimes against the natural order.
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Gossip, therefore, died and a sepulchral silence descended on the shop except for the customers' self-obsessed questions and the barber's answers.
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The shade of corruption laid a sepulchral pall over the land, affecting all in its wake.
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What makes it so remarkable is how sepulchral the voices are.
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Counterintelligence, or "CI," was the domain of the legendary James Jesus Angleton, the sepulchral mole-hunter who was becoming increasingly drunken and paranoid.
The Real Cover-Up
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Unintelligible Latinisms litter the insides of the booklet, awkwardly coupling with sepulchral imagery.
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However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful 'For what we are about to receive --' with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite.
Our Mutual Friend
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The row over ties and over which news organisation had been the more sepulchral (or had more pages, more black borders, sections, pages etc) rumbled all week and became a story in its own right.
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Even the most magnificent landscapes are powerless without figures, not forgetting Poussin's Arcadia, were it devoid of the shepherds and the sepulchral inscription.
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He heard the voice as clearly as if it had been whispered in his ear, a hollow, sepulchral voice.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
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There is an ascent by three low steps from the cella into the adytum, in which is a deep sepulchral excavation; there is also a similar but smaller one in the cella itself.
Travels in Nubia
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The sepulchral formality of the serious restaurant was gone.
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A sidelight cast a sepulchral glow through the lily-white curtains that hung at her new patio doors.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs. Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful "For what we are about to receive --" with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
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The tenuous suggestion that Stonehenge may thus be a sepulchral monument, is perhaps strengthened by the large number of burial mounds in the surrounding landscape.
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This tomb, as we have seen, consists of a portico, a courtyard, two chambers, and a sepulchral vault; but it also contains a secret passage of the kind known as a "serdab.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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The adytum is seven feet square; the remains of a statue, cut out of the rock, are visible in the back wall, and in the floor is a deep sepulchral excavation.
Travels in Nubia
