How To Use Tomb In A Sentence

The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive.
I've known Chastity since she was young, and this girl was a total tomboy.
The Archaic period (c. early 6th century - 480 BC) saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas.
According to bury circumstance judgement, put possibly inside circumjacent bigger range in more and dinosaurian fossil, disentomb foreground is very hopeful.
Archaeologists were excited to find lots of bronzes, ceramics, lacquerworks, wood tomb figures, steel weapons and leather weapons, jewelry and even coloured drawings.

Entrance costs £2.45 and there will also be a tombola and raffle.
Naturally, the epitaph on his tombstone should read ‘Th-that-that's all folks!’
Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
Bodies lay all around, partially or completely entombed in the debris.
A mark of the confusion attending the rescue operation came when it was widely reported that five firefighters, trapped for two days in the rubble, had been freed from their concrete tomb.
Wall painting can be broadly defined as any painting in which the support is the structure itself - whether a free-standing building, a subterranean tomb, or a rock-cut cave.
For example, in the cemetery of St. Cyriacus two women bought from the fossor Quintus a bisomus, or double grave, retro sanctos (near a martyr's tomb), and there are several other references to this practice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
In the final scene the camera follows the course of a wire down a telephone pole and out to the fellow's tombstone where it dips into the earth and apparently down to his casket.
The right wing hall stood empty and quiet as a tomb.
With domed hall and cavernous corridors that echoed every step, this felt more like a tomb.
a dolmen, since all tombs containing clay effigies or encircled by terracotta haniwa would necessarily be subsequent to that date, and all tombs containing skeletons other than the occupants of the sarcophagi would be referable to an earlier era. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
Every major tombstoning accident has been due to there not being enough water. Times, Sunday Times
To celebrate Memorial Day, a great ceremony is always held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington D.
I know that there is some stiff competition in the house and I will have to be at my most erudite and witty best to get one over on some of these lads and lasses I will be entombed with.
The city was perched on its barren, hot rock, with scarcely a drop of water, and its inhabitants must often have been tempted to wish that there had been running down the sun-bleached bed of the Kedron a flashing stream, such as laved the rock-cut temples and tombs of Thebes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
The first obvious difference from the manga is in the appearance of the central character, Deunan, who in the manga is more-or-less a regular self-capable woman with an unusual skill for violence and mayhem, but who in the anime has become a short-haired tomboy whose fighting skills ascend to the level of gravity-defying superpowers, as she is capable of backflipping over enemy gunfire in slow-motion. Archive 2007-08-01
The straight vertical edge that viewers see as they walk into the room could be an obelisk, a standing figure, or even a stone tombstone.
The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
Fragments of India includes images and sounds from Hindu and Jain temples, Muslim tombs, mosques and marketplaces.
Many copies of the book have been found in tombs and burial chambers, where they were presumably placed for the use of the dead. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
America quickly embraced Pluto and Tombaugh as icons worthy of scientific superstardom, and the rest of the world quickly followed suit.
They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
One of the reasons I strongly recommend using antecedents is that if you say your story is like ROMANCING THE STONE and LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, it tells me you have a woman hero in an inflated action story that’s going after adrenaline and excitement. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Michael Hauge, Part 1
Parts of the Via Appia Antica are closed to traffic on Sundays, and the stretch running south from the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, lined with crumbling graves and tall umbrella pines, and parallel to an aqueduct, is one of the finer archaeological walks in the world. The Road from Ravenna
Similarly we ought perhaps to disclaim any direct connection between the corridor-tombs of the megalithic area and the great _tholoi_ of Crete and the Greek mainland. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
There shall be, as it were, a quickset hedge of trees and bushes, close, close around your tomb. John Gabriel Borkman
In the Eklakhi Tomb we see for the first time an Islamic curved roof inspired from the bamboo version, and the slight slope on the roof is a departure from traditional cubical construction and served to throw off rainwater.
He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
For some, a museum is a dusty place; a tomb for memories. Times, Sunday Times
They urged parents to warn youngsters about the dangers of tombstoning. The Sun
They are like dead walls and the place they enclose like a vault, and the itinerant drab like a thing in drab cerements (they trail the dust) that ought to be dead wailing for entrance to things, tombed in those walls, that are dead. This Freedom
Pyramids are tombs built for Egypt's pharaohs.
The longshore current can carry large amounts of sand along the coast and can form spits (narrow peninsulas of sand), barrier islands and tombolos (narrow sand deposits connecting a near-shore island with the beach).
They say the pharaoh Khufu who built the Great Pyramid was so obsessed by the construction of his own tomb, he had no money to build tombs for others in his family.
In the excavated tombs there, the legacy of Koguryo lives in the murals depicting warriors on horseback.
The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
Every year on St Paul's day, while the soloist on the ambo sang the melodies of the fourth vigiliary responsory, the Pope, entering, as we have said, into the camera confessionis, withdrew the censer - which had been let down through the hole on to the tomb of the apostle at this same Office in the preceding year, and introduced another also full of burning incense. The Station at St Paul
There is the convulsed boy foaming at the mouth and the man emerging from the tombs with an unclean spirit.
Many entertainments are planned for the night including a charity auction, games and a tombola.
His tomb was discovered miraculously in the 5th century. Times, Sunday Times
The lakeshore processes displayed through the formation of numerous bars, spits and tombolos within the lakes of this park are tentatively assigned provincial significance.
Thomas Weir perched, like that of a man beheaded for treason, upon the apex of the gablet of the old tomb, as I was of hearing the wonderful playing of that husky old organ, of which I have spoken once before. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930
A good viewpoint is the cemetery where a tombstone, above a jagged cliff, bears the name of Miss Turner.
It's occurring to me that if I were a kid, I'd be considered something of a tomboy.
The beautifully carved tombstones, with inscriptions in the Dutch language, could have been carved in Holland and sent to India.
Tomba won the gold in slalom at the 1988 Calgary Games. Italy wins first Olympic gold as Razzoli takes men's slalom
Ironically, Pluto is so itteh bitteh that it doesn't really affect Uranus or Neptune at all: Lowell was wrong on that count, which makes it even more amazing that Tombaugh found the darn thing.
She's whipped the place into shape and everything's sparkly clean, not to mention the fact that the place is as quiet as a tomb, aside from the tapping of keyboards or phone ringing.
Remains of a hut settlement have been found, as well as Bronze Age artefacts, cremated human remains, bones, teeth, beads, pendants, pottery, jewellery, a passage-tomb cemetery and two ruined dolmens.
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But the space was small enough to feel as if the walls were closing in, and it was dark as a tomb.
All portraiture is in its origin funerary – that is to say, the earliest known specimens of portraiture are found in tombs, and represent the dead. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
These protectors guarded over the tombs of the kings, in what is now known as the Valley of the Kings.
There are no inscriptions or markings to identify the tombs.
They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.
All join in pushing the earth to cover the tombs.
A crest much above this level effectively converts a reef to a detached breakwater, introducing the potential for the formation of harmful tombolos and disruption to longshore processes.
= "-- We are told that a cenotaph is a monument" in memory of one buried elsewhere "-- otherwise," an empty tomb. The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers
But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by {81} day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest _chiaroscuro_. A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
A mountain rescue mission yesterday took off for Iceland to recover wreckage from a bomber plane which entombed four men in ice for more than 60 years.
Lots of seven to 10-year-olds are tomboys, into male-style adventure.
A tombstoned application restores its transient state when it is activated. The Windows Blog
There are a couple of dozen tombstones, a memorial to men who died in the First World War.
The feldspar statue keeps intent, slit-eyed watch over a tomb.
The Albertine Rift is home to about 19 percent of Africa's amphibian species, including more than 30 endemic species and three monotypic endemic genera: Parkers tree toad (Laurentophryne parkeri), the Itombwe golden frog (Chrysobatrachus cupreonitens), and African painted frog (Callixalus pictus, VU). Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
I went down stairs and walked up the street, in the greatest perplexity; for -- let me whisper it into your ear, reader, I had not a sufficient amount of the current coin of the realm in my pockets to create a gingle upon a tomb-stone. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.
In that period the game was known as tombola, housey-housey or lotto.
It took almost a decade of meticulous and painstaking work to empty the tomb of Tutankhamen.
He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath.
The great pyramids were burial tombs for the pharaohs who were revered as gods on earth.
Dateci qualche cosa da sfregiare, Un intonaco, la Gioconda, Un parafango, una pietra tombale. WN.com - Photown News
The couple were reportedly sombre as they laid flowers at the island tomb on the 14,000-acre Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire.
Camden society what the old church at Jamestown probably was, may be seen the tomb of a Tazewell, who died in 1706, on which is engraved the coat of arms of the family, -- a lion rampant, bearing a helmet with a vizor closed on his back; an escutcheon, which is evidently of Norman origin, and won by some daring feat of arms, and which could only have been held by one of the conquering race. Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
During the time when these styles of Gothic architecture prevailed that are now called the Decorated and the Perpendicular, the roof, [14] the columns, the stained glass windows, the seats, altar, tombs, and even the flooring, were filled with emblasonment. A Short Account of King's College Chapel
There are two tombs in the body of the place; but none in the chancel, which is bare, except for the tall candlesticks, and the chancel rail, beyond which is the undraped altar of solid marble, upon which stand four small candlesticks, two at each end. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
At another time, his tongue having become swollen and tumefied, it was restored to its natural size and condition by licking the railing of the tomb of this saint. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
People believed that healing could occur through direct contact with the relics — by touching them, drinking water or wine in which they had been dipped, sleeping next to the tomb, or eating dirt scraped from the site. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Twenty five years ago, the nebulous gas entombing the dying star at the centre was not hot enough to glow.
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The tomb, situated in an elevated position at the end of a rocky gorge, is a well-preserved architectural and artistic masterpiece.
The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
The burial shroud was lying where the body had been placed and the headpiece was folded neatly and put in a different part of the tomb.
The body is buried or entombed in a brick or concrete structure.
I am not a girly girl and am always up for a tomboy adventure
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In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat. GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs.
He thus turned his attention to potential unlocated tombs. Times, Sunday Times
The town's cemetery is packed to overflowing, and unless families can pay the requisite sum for eternal entombment, bodies are evicted after five years.
According to Peter Piccione, Later in the Saite Period, the play of the game is again depicted on the walls of two tombs, as part of the neo-Memphite revival--when Old Kingdom artistic motives and themes were temporarily revived for socio-political purposes. Archive 2008-05-01
Without charity there would be no bathing in cold custard, no public displays of depilation and no outlet for tombola. The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith (editor): Book summary
A Cotswold-Severn tomb is one of the classic sites of British prehistory, and to have an opportunity to excavate one completely was such a treat, and a privilege.
Despite a tomb fresco , it is an uncommon portrait work in Tang dynasty.
Oh yes, some of those tombs and vaults are more than 250 years old.
Archaeologists have even found vases of chufas in the tombs of Pharaohs.
Waves and currents sort these materials, and deposit them on a bar, spit, cuspate foreland, tombolo, or beach.
The really only interesting part is the tomb of Mahomed Aly, which is at the south-east corner, it being built on the place where the janissaries were murdered. Three Months in the Soudan
There was a "god" called Attis who was born on December 25th of a virgin birth, entombed and resurrected! Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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I saw that she lay in the position of old knightly tomb figures, her legs crossed at the ankles, a long black sword clasped between her breasts and a red sandstone bowl on her chest from which rose a willowy plume of smoke. The Skrayling Tree
A dolmen was a single chambered tomb formed by laying one long stone over several other stones set upright in the ground. Early European History
Tombs of ecclesiastics (Obazine Abbey, Hereford Cathedral) were made deliberately shrinelike, with relief carving or a pinnacled canopy.
The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar.
I like to mix tomboy pieces with vintage, and high-end with high street. Times, Sunday Times
In a review for New Humanist of two recent books written by political bloggers - Liberal Fascism by National Review Online blogger Jonah Goldberg, and The Liberal Defence of Murder by Lenin's Tomb author Richard Seymour - he finds that in the transition to the printed page all the faults of those with 'blogorrhea' are starkly revealed: sloppy research, cheap name-calling, historical immaturity, overstatement, distortion, factual errors and near-endless repetition. New Humanist Blog
We should have _known_ the characters as they were known to the patrician and the populace of two thousand years ago; we should have seen them as they threw out all their stately and muscular strength; we should have been able to recover them from the tomb, make them move before us "in their armour, as they lived," and gather from their lips the language of times and things, now past away from man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
Je voudrais, seulement pour un jour, retourner à Rome prier sur la tombe de Jean Paul II pour lui exprimer toute ma reconnaissance filiale pour son pardon", ajoute-t-il. Mehmet Ali Agca,Pope John Paul II's Would-Be Assassin, embraces the Catholic Faith! IMPORTANT INFO ADDED
I do not come here to ask your favors, such as cupidity would covet, or even such as would relieve indigence -- Marat's widow needs no more than a tomb. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
Despite our lack of information about the superstructures of the nearby tombs (lining the Via Labicana and adjacent to Eurysaces' monument), we know that Eurysaces' tomb had to contend with at least one of his neighbors.
These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory.
The Church of Scotland may long have raised funds through raffles, tombolas and whist drives, but it disapproves of gambling.
It's giving her nightmares of beehive tombs, the subway system as a mastaba, too tight a fit for her. Texas
A United States Army officer, speaking at the tomb of Lafayette after United States forces had arrived in support of France in World War I, said, Lafayette, we are here. Lafayette, Marquis de
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Regardless of its many knock-offs, the success of the Tomb Raider franchise seems to me to be a bit of a fluke.
The building's architectures makes reference to much that is ancient in Jerusalem: tombs, temples, gates, and archways.
“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.” Dear Pen Pal
In the midground another de rodillas; el de doña Inés en two tombs in a suitable form, and in el centro, y su estatua de pie. the background and on an elevated Don Juan Tenorio
The tomb of Djehutynakht (je-hooty-knocked) and his wife, also named Djehutynakht, was thoroughly looted in antiquity, but artifacts the thieves left behind provide an extraordinary window on life in ancient Egypt. Exhibitions: Egypt's Model Afterlife
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He and his friend Willie Brown would often sit on tombstones, writing ominous melodies and drinking moonshine.
At the base of the central triptych is a cartoonish tombstone. Times, Sunday Times
Tuthmosis III's mummy was rewrapped following damage by tomb robbers, then reburied in Deir el-Bahari.
Tickets for a chance at this A tombola is a kind of raffle. miscellaneous collection sold for one dollar each. The Romance of the Civil War
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb].
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Until now, the earliest leftovers of cocoa consumption were in residues from a Maya tomb in Guatemala from A.D. 460 to 480.
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Gavston or Gauston twice encised, but to this "scribbling" Mr Weston S. Walford, who has a note on this tomb in the fifteenth volume of the Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
A pilgrimage to Medina is often made in conjunction with the pilgrimage to Mecca in order to visit the tombs and shrines of Muhammad, his family, and the first three caliphs.
The money has been raised through fun weekends, tombola, raffles and special themed events.
One can be gripped by a vague feeling of claustrophobia, as if entering an underground tomb.
The cemetery of over 6,000 war dead contains a tomb where a giant wreath of gold and silver leaves rests.
We reach deep into the entombed secrets of our soul, dare to pull on those threads that originate in forbidden desires, and dance in disguise with the abandon of bacchantes. Nor certitude, nor peace
Sir Robert has inscribed on his tombstone the words: ‘He loved his country’.
Effigies of their parents, Richard and Magdalen, are sheltered in a magnificent canopied tomb in the south transept, eight prayerful and reverent children gathered behind them.
Along the path there is a well, which symbolises the beginning of life, while further along is a dolmen, a pre-Christian tomb, representing the end of life.
Inscribed on the tombstone was the words, "Here lies Dave Petzal, late of Field and Stream, who never would settle, for rounds not so extreme. Nothing Works Better than a .338
The money seems to have been taken from one of the main games like the tombola or raffle.
To make it more challenging, those tombstones and trees create ideal cover.
Everyone who is interred, entombed or inurned deserves a place in the Association's permanent records as well as a memorial.
The imitations imply knowledge of imported origins and, in fact, the Divari tombs did contain Augustan-period beakers of Italian thin-walled ware.
Goya's painting represents the most dramatic scene in which Don Juan arrives at Don Gonzalo's tomb in a fierce thunderstorm.
When they opened up the tomb they found treasure beyond their wildest dreams.
John's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness.
But, farthermore, I mention the fifth, marshaled at the fifth gate, that of Boreas, by the very tomb of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
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Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
‘It is sad but we are relieved that we will now be able to bury him and visit his tomb when we want,’ he said.
Growing up, I was quite the tomboy, wearing my hair real short, playing boys' parts in musicals, and swimming in nothing but a pair of cut-offs well past when I should have.
Usually a little grotto is prepared for the Pope's tomb.
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The Lord of Ucupe-as locals have come to call the entombed Moche leader-was in his early thirties when he died, Bourget said. National Geographic News
As one pundit told me, marble follows the locals from the baptismal font to the tombstone.
It would hunt down the one that had entombed it, that had left it for dead, thinking that it would be consumed by the fire.
Over the years his bones have darkened to the rich caramels of their earthen tomb.
Models strutted the catwalk wearing patched trousers and men's shirts, turquoise headbands and striped jumpers, which combined to illustrate the girl's tomboy side.
And looking down on the unthinking city, the Cathedral kept watch alone, beseeching pardon for the inappetency for suffering, for the inertia of faith that her sons displayed, uplifting her towers to the sky like two arms, while the spires mimicked the shape of joined hands, the ten fingers all meeting and upright one against another, in the position which the image-makers of old gave to the dead saints and warriors they carved upon tombs. The Cathedral
At the back of the church a great stone crusader sat up on his tomb and, with much rasping of stone, thumbed his nose at the vicar. CHARMED LIFE
Then there is light, and a discarded shroud, and a risen Christ bearing the stigmata leaves the tomb.
There will be live entertainment on the Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, along with pub games and a tombola.
'As for amusement, I could kill rats as I used to do; or slaughter a hecatomb of pheasants at Babington,' -- here the old man winced, though the word hecatomb reconciled him a little to the disagreeable allusion. John Caldigate
Don't 1 wander from graveyard to 2 ) graveyard , reading endless 3 ) tombstones.
In A Certain World Auden quotes Nietzsche's description of Dante ‘or the hyena poetizing among the tombs’; the quotation comes from Gotzen-Dammerung, reprinted in Samtliche Werke 6: 111.
Originally used to designate the burial-place of a confessor or martyr (known also as a memoria or martyrion), this term gradually came to have a variety of applications: the altar erected over the grave; the underground cubiculum which contained the tomb; the high altar of the basilica erected over the confession; later on in the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
DESTOMBES, Les vies des Saints et des personnes d'une eminente piete de Cambrai et d'Arras (Lille, 1890); CHEVALIER, Topo-bibliographie, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Listed also are over 600 tombstones and grave slabs from the old cemetery in Aghamore.
Tombstone, an easy day trip from Tucson, does however offer one vision of Arizona's pioneer days: clapboard and adobe buildings, and, of course, re-enacted gunfights.
Other frequenters of the cemetery I see before me — dark, silent figures, figures of persons whom still unsevered cords of memory seemed to have bound to the place for the rest of their lives, and compelled to wander, like unburied corpses, in quest of suitable tombs. Through Russia
Workers in gold and ivory, in gems and talismans, in brass and fine linen and purple had done the marvels which those courtier adventurers brought with them over the sea, and to these, from year to year, had been added the treasure of private chests -- necklaces and coronals and hair-loops, bottles and vases of glass coloured with metallic oxides, and patterned aggry-beads, now sometimes found in ancient tombs on the Ashantee coasts. Romance Island
* And my vote for best news story of this or any year: Tiny Swiss watch found in undisturbed 400-year-old tomb. Quick Ones « Gerry Canavan
The inscription dates the double tomb to the 6th dynasty, which marked the beginning of the decline of the Old Kingdom, also known as the age of pyramids. 4,300-Year-Old Tombs Unveiled In Egypt
When the sparks from the fire steel hit the cottomball it bursts into flame and burns long enough to get the kindling going. Whats the best way to get a fire started?
However, the underground chambers of the tombs are well preserved, though they have long been emptied of their contents.
The dark and mysterious crypt is there, as is the iron grating, which is pointed to as indicating the exact position of the tomb. Canada at the Grave of Wolfe
Most English translations give "entomb" for "begraben," but I've been struck by the way the English word "engrave" includes the same root. Philocrites: January 2003 Archives
The 43rd annual show will include refreshments, a plant sale, a tombola and a raffle.
It is England's oldest borough; Athelstan, the first king of England was initially buried here and his tomb remains in the abbey.
Curses were routinely used as a deterrent against tomb raiders in ancient Egypt, as the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered when excavating Tutankhamun's burial chamber.
The completely wrapped mummified infant under investigation was detected in the upper level of the tomb chamber.
The System Drive is comprised of two sections, the core OS, which account for about 20 GB of your first hard drive in the system, the rest of the drive contain what they call the tombstone files, which act as file pointer to the actual locations of all your files. Anime Nano!
She said: 'I was a real tomboy. The Sun
How wretched are lovers all," Hapless are lovers all e'en even in the sepulchre, tombed in their tombs, The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Could be dark as tombs that strike the spirit acold A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems
We have found a place, not far, where we can entomb the Doctor's body.
Many local people believed him when he spoke of the right or wrong siting of houses or tombs.
a straw, and lent his aid right willingly to disentomb and carry the brandy keg. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
Our aim was to study the chronological relationship between different tomb types in the region.
Several years ago, shortly after Clyde Tombaugh died at the age of ninety, Pluto's planethood was thrown into question.
In 1612, her son and the now king of England, James, brought his mother's body to Westminster Abbey where she was buried in a magnificent tomb.
January 21st, 2010 at 11: 20 am tombaker says: the pundits, the baggers, anyone can say anything now, it will all be for show, and nothing more. formal commencement of plutocracy is enacted. Think Progress » Barnicle: People now think Massachusetts is ‘part of America’ because of Brown’s election.
Chemical analysis of cosmetics samples found in Egyptians tombs and the reconstitution of ancient recipes as reported by Greco-Roman authors have shown that two non-natural lead chlorides (laurionite Pb (OH) Cl and phosgenite Pb2Cl2CO3) were purposely synthesized and were used as fine powders in makeup and eye lotions. Egyptology News

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