How To Use Sepulture In A Sentence
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This place of sepulture is the specially erected crypt, immediately below the altar, in the Church of St. John, Leipzig.
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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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Thus some explanations are unavoidably reciprocal or circular, as _hind, the female of the stag; stag, the male of the hind_: sometimes easier words are changed into harder, as _burial_ into _sepulture, or interment, drier_ into _desiccative, dryness_ into _siccity_ or
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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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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Sometimes easier words are changed into harder; as, burial, into sepulture or interment; dry [2], into desiccative; dryness, into siccity or aridity; fit, into paroxism; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can never be translated into one more easy. '
Life Of Johnson
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Vivisepulture is the act of what?
Times, Sunday Times
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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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-- The so-called catacombs of Paris were never catacombs in the ancient sense of the word, and were not devoted to purposes of sepulture until 1784.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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49 I am not aware that this vivisepulture of the widower is the custom of any race, but the fable would be readily suggested by the Sati (Suttee) - rite of the Hindus.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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About 3 m. west of Bagdad, on the Euphrates road, in or by a grove of trees, stands the shrine and tomb of Nabi Yusha or Kohen Yusha, a place of monthly pilgrimage to the Jews, who believe it to be the place of sepulture of Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest at the close of the exilian period.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The place was in truth a graveyard -- a sacred graveyard, for on Tabong Mountain were shrined and sepultured the bones of the ancient kings of Silla.
Chapter 15
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Sometimes easier words are changed into harder; as, burial, into sepulture or interment; dry [2], into desiccative; dryness, into siccity or aridity; fit, into paroxism; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can never be translated into one more easy. '
Life Of Johnson
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‘These men died for us gentlemen,’ he told the council, ‘and we at least owe it to their memories, decently to meet and garnish the spot of their sepulture.’
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Until 1880 the suicide was required to be buried without rites of Christian sepulture.