| 单词 | sepulchral |
| 例句 | “Your face, Flora Belle, is particularly beautiful. Even the sepulchral gloom of this hallway cannot dim your loveliness.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “You only wear black! It makes you look sepulchral.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She pictured them together, in dark sepulchral rooms with heavy velvet drapes, discussing theology. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The faces in the pews around me were waxen with candlelight, and pine boughs, left over from Christmas, sent up a sepulchral incense in the cold air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Snuffbox,” said Jo, in a sepulchral tone, which convulsed the audience. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, in a sepulchral intonation meant to be Yael, “You will die.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Darkness, the sepulchral silence down below, and the groan of hooves and steam-powered machinery from the levels far above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Kelley O'Connor, tall and hieratic, was the alto soloist, intoning the final lament with sepulchral beauty, if occasional unsteadiness. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic ? review 2011-01-28T00:29:54Z One of the prototypes is Canova's design for a monument to Titian: an awe-inspiring relief of a pyramid with mourners entering its sepulchral door. How I finally warmed to Antonio Canova, rival to Michelangelo 2010-08-24T14:35:00Z Kanye bellows a sepulchral hook on “The Killing Season,” but you can spot his production influence on a song like “The Space Program,” where the rappers commune back-and-forth with a vocal sample. Against all odds, A Tribe Called Quest delivers one final masterpiece 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z At intervals, O'Neill, Joseph O'Farrell and Glen Walton man banjo, drums and double bass to pass Nick Cave-style sepulchral comment on the action. The Ballad of Backbone Joe 2010-08-13T21:01:00Z At one point a perfectly luminous chord, spread through the Houston Chamber Choir’s tenors and basses, was cut off by a bleak, sepulchral cluster in the piano and celesta. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z In the vast sanctuary of the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday, with the lights dimmed to a sepulchral shadowiness, the music seemed as simmering and enveloping as a primordial ritual. Review: Tectonics Festival New York Takes Wing at a Church Setting 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z He was also sly and avuncular, making droll, deadpan comments in his sepulchral voice. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Back then, the voice that later developed into a forbidding sepulchral drone was closer to the folk croon of Paul Simon. Listen to Leonard Cohen, More than 40 Years Ago 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Raimund is as parched and pedantic a creature as T. S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock, and Mr. Irons voices his thoughts in a tone of sepulchral weariness that contradicts the character’s supposed awakening. Movie Review: Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin Star in ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ 2013-12-05T23:12:57Z But he speaks the lines in a conversational manner quite unlike Eliot's sepulchral, Anglican-pulpit style. A Late Quartet – review 2013-04-06T23:06:19Z But the purchasers’ money is held in escrow for thirty days during inspection, so the Radners have a special incentive, beside their own craving for sleep, to coax the newly installed sorority into sepulchral silence. “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” and Greek Life 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z So perhaps it’s finally the moment for Manhattan audiences to embrace the sepulchral title character of “The Woman in Black,” which opened on Thursday in the Club Car bar at the McKittrick Hotel. Review: The Comforts of the Cozy Scare in ‘The Woman in Black’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Watch how he meticulously brushes off his hands after leaving the office and intones "The bathroom" in a sepulchral voice. One last scare: The original 'Psycho' trailer 2011-10-28T16:50:06Z The film unfolds with a seemingly effortless grace, the apartment, like the sepulchral interiors in a painting by Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi, becoming a metaphor for the labyrinths of a mind. Amour – review 2012-11-18T00:06:00Z These are set off, as usual, by bleak open spaces, where you might find a sepulchral forest or graveyard. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ in London 2013-07-23T21:05:32Z Skying's starry-eyed, cosmic leanings are complicated by Badwan's slippery, sepulchral presence. The Horrors: Skying - review 2011-07-07T14:29:01Z Like Mr. Ramey, his smooth, powerful, flexible voice has its greatest impact in the baritonal region, rather than the sepulchral depths; his voice doesn’t bloom as it moves downward. Review: ‘Mefistofele’ at the Met Opera Is a Devil That Dances 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It also starred Mr. Servillo and was set in the sepulchral halls of power in Rome, filled with classical busts, where politicians have been wheeling and dealing uninterruptedly for millenniums. Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Great Beauty’ Explores Italy’s Decline 2013-09-08T21:23:29Z A sepulchral gloom seems to have settled over interpretations of this romantic comedy, an emphasis on adversity rather than the potential sweetness of its uses. | 'As You Like It': Love?s Hard, Comic Work, on a Stage Most Worldly 2011-07-08T23:04:48Z But it’s also the sepulchral, blank appearance, that recalls a skull. Horror Masks Are Never Just About the Monster 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “Black Light Poster Child” is a navel-gazing contemplation of sepulchral timbres. Hybrid Sounds by Clogs, Slow Six and Redhooker 2010-04-16T19:52:00Z Some of the most intense passages, for instance, concern the last days of the artist’s mother, when “there would reign a sepulchral silence throughout the house.” Review | What inspired sculptor Louise Bourgeois? One novelist takes a guess. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Salem all but vanished not long after releasing its debut album in 2010 — until this week, when it reappeared with a cryptic 40-minute mixtape and now this sepulchral but surprisingly legible song. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z As with those characters, Tell’s unease is first telegraphed by the careful restraint you hear in his sepulchral narration, in the even tones he uses to deliver both dramatic and quotidian information. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Eric Halfvarson presents an unusually malignant Grand Inquisitor, and Robert Lloyd's sepulchral Charles V inescapably suggests a visitor from beyond the grave. Don Carlo – review 2013-05-06T16:12:06Z “It’s too bad that the filmmakers don’t allow an occasional breath of air into the sepulchral proceedings or ease up on the increasingly heavy-handed lessons,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in February. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Matthew Macfadyen is equally fine as Jeeves, commanding, sepulchral and extremely strict in the matter of men's trouserings, no matter how fraught the situation may be. Press views: Jeeves and Wooster 2013-11-13T13:04:49Z The fifth and longest prelude begins with improvisatory caution, then moves to somber, sepulchral depths, with taps at the left end of the keyboard setting off forlorn high fragments on the right. Music Review: Gilles Vonsattel Performs at Bargemusic 2014-04-20T21:33:19Z Mezzo Mariana Pentcheva produced some thrillingly sepulchral low notes, but also took a while to get a seismic vibrato in her upper registers under control. Prom 13: Verdi Requiem - review 2011-07-25T10:04:41Z She has never been the kind of woman who favored a sepulchral black wardrobe and moody makeup, as her latest show’s heroine does. The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z A new embodiment of evil, named Snoke, is enshrouded in sepulchral male voices. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Avatar it's not: the stereoscopic scenes, full of writhing forms and striped snakes, are simply an extension of the sepulchral fun Coppola hopes to provide. Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D Twixt in Toronto: The Third D Is for Dementia 2011-09-16T17:10:00Z The concept, writes Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, leans toward the stark and monolithic — and “there’s something not just tight-lipped but a bit sepulchral about the proposal.” Essential Arts & Culture: Sneak peek of the new Marciano, Obama's library, Tennessee Williams in dance 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Most of that lyricism is, understandably, in the vocal writing, and David Salsbery Fry sang it with a winning fluidity and some impressive sepulchral tones. Music Review: The Least and the Most in a Tanglewood Series 2011-08-04T21:33:12Z The first thing that strikes you about Middleton's visage as it looms from the sepulchral gloom of her first official portrait is the dead eyes: a vampiric, malevolent glare beneath heavy lids. Kate's portrait – straight from the Twilight franchise 2013-01-11T12:45:16Z There were grumblings on the community board about the lobby’s demolition and whether the transparency of the arched window betrayed the sepulchral spirit of the original building. For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But the description we read by a fan on YouTube captured best the sepulchral stillness and intimations of industrial clamour: "It's like hearing a church down the road from a steel factory". New band of the day ? No 884: William Basinski 2010-10-11T16:11:00Z Her first two albums — “The Grime and the Glow” and “Apokalypsis,” on Pendu Sound — put her forth as a sepulchral wraith. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z “Row, row, row your little dreamboat violently back upstream,” Mr. Russell sings in the sepulchral tone of a dour country prophet warning of inevitable doom. | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z Polgár's deeply resonant, sepulchral voice, coupled with an impressive timbral range, enabled him to explore the mysteries of that role, fusing the sinister and vulnerable qualities of the hirsute phallocrat in a deeply satisfying reading. L?szl? Polg?r obituary 2010-09-28T18:13:00Z Effects that were obscure on the recording — the biting texture of the sepulchral brasses in the opening bars, for example — were vivid in the Carnegie account. Music Review: Philip Glass 75th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-01T23:17:25Z “Hail, Caesar! is a much sunnier picture, and more purely comedic than its sepulchral predecessor,” he said. Hail, Caesar! is Coens' biggest US box-office bomb since Intolerable Cruelty 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Too bad, because the movie’s luscious 3-D palette, overseen by creative consultant and master cinematographer Roger Deakins, is a wonder of bright creatures popping out of or soaring into sepulchral places. How to Train Your Dragon 2 at Cannes: Beasts of the Viking Wild 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The one-acts are scattered among three sepulchral rooms, and attendants with flashlights guide you from one to the next. Review: Beckett’s Absurdist House of Horrors, in Hell’s Kitchen 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z He imbues the entire film with a sombre, lacquered depth that builds nuance into the nocturnal murk and sepulchral shadows in which Beatty enshrouds much of the film’s action and, especially, himself. Warren Beatty’s Self-Sparing Embodiment of Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z He was also Khan, the genetically engineered alien, in “Star Trek Into Darkness,” in which his sepulchral voice and careful, rapid enunciation were themselves indication of unnatural villainy. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z King composed a minor-key dirge for this sad, sick testimony, and Spector arranged the song with sepulchral strings, as if it were being sung from the grave of an abused woman. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Olmos's image of the murder site shows their photographs and some flowers next to a dry riser inlet in a sepulchral hallway – a monstrous crime discreetly mourned. London's crime scenes: murder in the city 2013-04-19T15:30:00Z Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than when the hour-long opera, composed in the 1680s, is performed this week in the catacombs of Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Purcell opera performed in cemetery catacombs 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z I’d expected something richly atmospheric, sepulchral, a space stuffed with the accumulated religious ephemera of more than eight centuries. To Strasbourg, in search of a tale from the crypt 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z An ornate portal off the lobby opens into a cocoon of exclusive taste and sepulchral quiet, the walls lined with plush velvet wallpaper of arterial purple and brooding oil paintings behind golden frames. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Rick, in a sepulchral version of the “Peace by Inches” speech, concludes, “We do what we need to do and then we live. We tell ourselves we are the walking dead.” Characters on 'The Walking Dead' Are Really Crying a Lot 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Amid the beauty shots and creeping camera moves, he rents rooms in her villa, brings its dormant garden back to bloom and fills its sepulchral rooms with luxurious bouquets. ‘The Aspern Papers’ Review: A Dead Poet’s Society, Once Removed 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z At the doleful close of the first movement, the double basses reached down to their sepulchral low-C extensions, a sound that didn’t exist during Mozart’s lifetime. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z He transposed the song down into his lowest, most sepulchral register, and sang it while just tapping on the guitar and occasionally plucking a single note. Music Review | Gilberto Gil: At the Nokia Theater, Complex Colors in Simple Settings 2010-03-13T01:40:00Z There’s a touch of mystery in this sepulchral house, but it’s the riddle of sorrow, not intrigue. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The slightly sepulchral tone and pace suggest time spent listening to public radio. ‘Over the Garden Wall,’ a New Cartoon Network Series 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z There’s something not just tight-lipped but a bit sepulchral about the proposal. Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Most survivors just try to get back to normal, but the collective mood — reflected in the show’s sepulchral lighting — is so gloomy that even bright daylight looks a little dingy. ‘The Leftovers,’ on HBO, a Tale of Mysterious Disappearances 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Ladd’s loose rasp finds a nifty counterpoint in Mr. Power’s low rumble — or what would qualify as a low rumble on any stage without Mr. Rux’s sepulchral bass. Seko Sundiata Reincarnated, in ‘Blessing the Boats’ 2014-01-13T19:23:35Z But Mr. Oliver — whose earlier autobiographical pieces include “East 10th Street,” “Helen and Edgar” and “In the Park” — reshapes and reanimates this well-worn formula by infusing it with a sepulchral darkness. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Suzan-Lori Parks’s jazz fugue of a play, which closes on Dec. 18, presents a haunting, sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It offers an interstitial pause, and grants a moment, as one goes from office tower to shopping mall, for reflection upon the true cost of its sepulchral peace. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Merritt has always, it seems, found inspiration in the dull ache of despondency as well as a showcase for his sepulchral baritone. Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette of Despondency at Town Hall 2010-03-11T23:10:00Z It’s too bad that the filmmakers don’t allow an occasional breath of air into the sepulchral proceedings or ease up on the increasingly heavy-handed lessons. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z Empty wooden chairs — a Windsor and a half-dozen folding models — become silent actors here, eventually joined by a white balloon with sepulchral fingers attached, representing that wordless figure, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z Last week , after months of soft teasers and calibrated hype, Mr. Abramcyk opened Bunker, a sepulchral nightclub under 22 Ninth Avenue, tucked beneath the familiar triangular brick building in the meatpacking district. The New Club Kids 2010-11-19T23:56:00Z “Instead, what emerged from that room was a sepulchral, moist, hacking chuckle that sounded like it came from a rotting throat.” Psychological Thrillers That Will Mess With Your Head 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Each puppet – or person, or character: the identity is very fluid – is propped on a pole and spotlit in the sepulchral gloom. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets – review 2013-04-06T23:05:12Z Most of the memorable Biblical phrases listed above were coined not in the hallowed cloisters of Oxford colleges or in the sepulchral calm of the Jerusalem Chamber but on the run. The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z Dizzying drums meet electronically processed voices, the sepulchral contrabass clarinet and shards of pop samples, a confident yet jittery mix of styles similar to “The Source.” This Is What Gentrification in Brooklyn Sounds Like 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z When the vengeful husband enters his wife’s bedroom to kill her in the final act of Verdi’s “Otello,” he is accompanied by the muted snarl of a sepulchral E natural in the double basses. Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z These spectral creatures often seem to be wandering at will through Derek McLane’s appropriately sepulchral set in the first act, and you’re not always sure who is the younger version of whom. | 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z A shadowy mist of cymbal rises off long, sepulchral tones down in the basses and contrabassoon, before a keening fragment of bassoon pierces the quiet with melancholy song. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z While Mr. Dylan often ranted, Mr. Cohen rarely raised his voice beyond a sagelike sepulchral drone, but the effect was similar. Barb Jungr in ‘Hard Rain’ at 59E59 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z “It’s pretty tough to get away from it because pretty much every day something reminds you of him,” Krieger says, underscoring the sepulchral reality that has shrouded Morrison since 1971. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It was given in a sepulchral rented mansion in north London’s eerie “Millionaire’s Row” district of Bishopswood Road, notorious for deserted megahouses purchased by absentee plutocrat investors. Men behaving badly: why cinema's great hellraisers were a breed apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Invited by the armory to create site-specific work there, Trusty Sidekick took inspiration from the building’s high-ceilinged front hall and reception rooms, which, even on a bright afternoon recently, were still and sepulchral. Trusty Sidekick Presents Immersive Pieces at Park Ave. Armory 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “It was breathtaking. It brought tears to my eyes,” she added, as she left the sepulchral chamber where the painting is displayed. Get in Line: The $100 Million da Vinci Is in Town 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Although barely an hour long, this is a haunting piece of theatre, with the Old Vic Tunnels providing an appropriately sepulchral setting. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review 2013-01-13T00:05:32Z His palette became darker, his paintings emptier and more sepulchral - The Burial of St Lucy that he painted in Syracuse is set inside a crypt that arches up in a brown void of abandonment. Caravaggio: The perfect ending to one of art's blackest tales 2010-06-16T21:35:00Z Hittman captures a hardscrabble Brooklyn isolation in an utterly ungentrified neighborhood that feels not so much suburban as subterranean; it’s a sepulchral film, smothered in nights and basements, shadows and silhouettes and neon-underlit interiors. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The band’s music, which at times bordered on the sepulchral, required lyrics that soared along with it. Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Still, Ouazzani found playing Satan this time quite a challenge, as he tried to convey intensity with little more than his eyes, delivering the devil's grim temptations to Jesus in sepulchral tones. Morocco actor amused by Satan-Obama comparisons 2013-04-09T11:43:10Z There isn’t much to say about Nardelli’s sepulchral comments, other than that he has a hell of a nerve. Column: Businesses keep complaining about shoplifting, but wage theft is a bigger crime 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s a perennially seductive style whose sepulchral glamour appeals as an alternative to mainstream ideals of blondness and tanned health — especially in SoCal. Unexpectedly, two nights of classic goth and post-punk at Cruel World festival 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Illuminated only by ambient light from windows and a skylight, “Half-Life” appears both glamorous and sepulchral. Review | In the galleries: Using technology as a medium and an inspiration 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z They exchanged names in the sepulchral darkness and realized they had worked together. Perspective | This big world keeps getting smaller, one chance encounter at a time 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Add a set of knives and a complementary pair of emotionally sepulchral childhoods, and Joe and Love will finally have to start facing who, and what, they married. Review | Season 3 of ‘You’ is its best yet, thanks to its true horrors: Marriage and suburbia 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Nothing can keep this year’s Thanksgiving from having a sepulchral tone for thousands of Americans. Column: To save lives, let's postpone Thanksgiving 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z I’d be playing wildly with my brothers or cousins or friends and the adults’ sepulchral shadows would appear out of nowhere and say: “That’s enough.” Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Sung by Gillian Anderson, The Sandman’s melody is exquisite, but its mood is pretty sepulchral. PJ Harvey's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z In the presence of death, the atmosphere in the donor room had been sepulchral. A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z With time, his paintings have grown less sepulchral and more alive with figure and movement. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Nothing can keep this year’s Thanksgiving from having a sepulchral tone for thousands of Americans. Column: To save lives, let's postpone Thanksgiving 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Grant—who is now sixty-one, with a tuft of silver hair and a chiselled, craggy face that he admits can look “sepulchral”—doesn’t drink or use drugs. Richard E. Grant Hearts Barbra Streisand 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z He took his time in the sepulchral shadows and with the body. An artificial life form carries the seeds of humanity to a new world 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Low and sepulchral, Iggy sings, “Death, make me brave/death, leave me swinging.” The Playlist: Radiohead Digs Into the Archives, but Zola Jesus Is More Extravagantly ‘Exhumed’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In Birmingham, the sepulchral skies posed more threat to that record than Pakistan’s cricketers. India, Pakistan and Something Deeper Than Cricket 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z But for the scratchings of a hungry animal in a bin, the air was still, the chamber sepulchral. Visiting the Lincoln Memorial in the Trump era: 'There is a lot to fight for' 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z "You want to know, don't you? Why they keep coming here - to Earth," his sepulchral tones intone, accompanied by a ghostly chorister. Super Bowl trailers whip up fan anticipation - BBC News 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Eventually, one of the artist’s production assistants leads bewildered visitors through sepulchral underground chambers with raw brick walls and arched ceilings once used to shelter kegs of beer. Ai Weiwei’s Triumphant Return 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z That sepulchral cry, directed at a terrified teen, announced the arrival of a new horror icon back in 1979. ‘Phantasm’ and ‘Ravager’: Cult classic returns with sequel 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The October light was oblique and sepulchral, a halo-endowing, New World light that does not exist in Delhi or Calcutta. The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z When David Bowie died in January, just two days after releasing his album “Blackstar” — the title was, in fact, just a sepulchral black-star icon — fans began parsing the songs for coded messages. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Her picture, included here, shows the cactus against “a sepulchral forest of ghost trees.” The Land Was Theirs 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z An Egyptian temple, relocated when the Aswan dam was built in the 1960s, now stands sepulchrally on the hilltop. Goya in hell: the bloodbath that explains his most harrowing work 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The air-conditioning is on high, the lighting sepulchrally low. Willie Nelson: ‘I’ve bought a lot of pot, and now I’m selling some back’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Corridors that would normally bustle with children and harried parents are sepulchral. 'Ebola makes you a risk to yourself: touching your face can infect you' 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The closeness of the lobby to the memorial imposed a special obligation on Mr. Maki and his client, Silverstein Properties, to create a space that was respectful without being sepulchral. Building Blocks: A Street, Reconstructed After 9/11, Becomes a Streetscape 2013-08-07T13:39:41Z By the official starting time, the light was already sepulchral and shortly after the rain started, with no let-up until mid-afternoon. Graeme Swann to miss New Zealand Test series with elbow injury 2013-03-06T16:38:15Z Chatting ceased and a sepulchral silence fell, riders locked into individual battles with gravity. Your own Tour de France: cycling the Marmotte 'sportive' in France 2012-06-29T21:45:08Z Even the light, sepulchral for most of the afternoon so that the floodlights were on and casting shadows, appeared to brighten dramatically. England's Andrew Strauss hits long overdue ton against West Indies 2012-05-18T18:15:53Z In the latter country we miss the dun, the rath, the lis, the round tower and the sepulchral mound, some of which are found in almost every square mile of Ireland. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z "So have and so am I," contributed Mrs. Battle, sepulchrally. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z One of the most touching memorials of the famine with which Joseph had to deal is found in a sepulchral inscription in Arabia. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z On that sepulchral night, the worst evils that he had dreaded, and against which he had doubtless warned him on that housetop, had come to pass. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Among others are—terracottas, Roman sculptures and sepulchral antiquities, Sir T. Lawrence’s collection of casts, British antiquities, ethnological specimens, Egyptian antiquities, several saloons containing the Elgin and Phigalian Marbles, Nineveh and Lycian sculptures, &c. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z It was evidently erected for a sepulchral mound, but seems to have also been used as a place of defence. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Over 300 inscriptions have been collected, mostly sepulchral, whence Ramsay has deduced interesting facts about the very early Christian community which existed here. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The church itself looked as if it had been dug out of the sepulchral earth, so closely was it surrounded by these shapeless mounds. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z “The doctor,” says Franklin, “particularly remarked the sepulchral tones of our voices, which he requested of us to make more cheerful, if possible, unconscious that his own partook of the same key.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z In the midst is a small sepulchral chamber, painted with arabesques. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z But scarcely was the work accomplished when a sepulchral groan burst from the defunct, the eyes glared, and the loosened arm was slowly lifted from the body. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z The grotesqueness of some of these sepulchral excrescences may in future centuries be still more apparent, though to many even time cannot supply interest. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Gothic on the contrary is less fearful, the lowered eyes are lifted, the sepulchral voices grow angelic.... Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z His eye is excessively bright, but quiet and habitually downcast; his lips are set firmly, but without effort, together; and his voice is almost sepulchral, it is so low and calm. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z In front of the papal chair is the grand sepulchral figure of a Carmelite, who was General of the Order in the time of Sta. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Mr Adam Wilkie is a Scot of the dourest and most sepulchral appearance. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Which burn in their sepulchral shrines unfading night and day. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z This widely distributed species is found throughout South America; and in its habits and sepulchral voice, as well as in its pretty reddish buff, grey, and white plumage, is identical with the European bird. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z The very hour of their establishment in the city, artisans, and artists, and engineers all were busy, and the life and enterprise of the West, were infused into the sepulchral streets of Alexandria. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z About two miles, or more, from the city gates, and right upon the roadside, is an immense round pile, sepulchral in its original purpose, like those already mentioned. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z In the sepulchral lighting, elevated roadways and immense tropical trees take on a creepy grandeur. Crazy Caracas Has Dudamel, Concrete, Tots: Manuela Hoelterhoff 2012-02-22T05:23:05Z I'll give three sepulchral knocks, then wait a minute and give three more. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z "And these sepulchral stones, so old and brown, That pave with level flags their burial-place, Seem like the tablets of the Law, thrown down And broken by Moses at the mountain's base." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z His body thus lies by the river shore, as on a sepulchral monument, the arms folded into a cross. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z The contadino at the neighbouring farmhouse provides lights, with which one can visit a labyrinth of steep narrow passages, some of which still retain inscribed sepulchral slabs. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z They had hardly settled when again the sepulchral roar was heard: "Parchment:—Parchment!" and down pattered and sailed another flock of documents: another followed: they whitened the grass. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Caldwell continued, remembering the words of the woman to the boy and making his tone as sepulchral as possible in order to frighten the man still more. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The major looked at him, and gave way to a sepulchral cachinnation. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z In the second sepulchral hall the lid of his sarcophagus was discovered, but of the sarcophagus itself there was no trace. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Near this are the sepulchral urns of the three Stuart princes, commemorated in the upper church. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z He maintains that there is no better method of depicting mortality than by a dead person, especially by those images which so frequently occur on sepulchral monuments. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Under this structure in the native rock lies a larger chamber, and behind this the sepulchral chamber. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z A fine sepulchral urn found at Shropham in Norfolk, and now in the British Museum, has three bands of cruciform ornaments round it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z One of 'em asked me if there was any sepulchral slabs, and it turned out she only meant tombstones after all. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z Excavations made in 1825 have laid open the sepulchral chamber in the midst of the basement. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z In a very interesting sepulchral monument, engraved in p. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z If the length of the reign sufficed, a new passage was driven deeper into the rock from the chamber, a new and larger ante-chapel, a wider and higher sepulchral chamber was excavated. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Instead of having the air of a sepulchral vault like those of Winchester and Gloucester, this crypt is, in Professor Willis’s words, “a complex and beautiful temple.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z The grave is a sepulchral mound lying within Warbstowe Bury, one of the largest British camps in Cornwall. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z At the foot of the column was a sepulchral chamber, intended to receive the imperial ashes, which were however preserved in a golden urn, upon an altar in front of it. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z At that moment, moreover, the cave-dwellers were giving all their attention to Tetzcatl, as he stood haranguing them at the highest pitch of his sepulchral voice. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z But the deep, sepulchral voice of Mr. Parker—he was not Bishop then—filled me with a most delightful horror. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Bevies of great black crows, sitting in the tops of dead willow-trees or circling around them, rent the air with sepulchral squawks. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z The date-palm is figured as a tree of life on an Egyptian sepulchral tablet, older than the Exodus, now preserved in the museum at Berlin. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z In a voice that no longer was hollow or sepulchral, but rich and ringing, he denounced the institution of slavery. Why Lincoln Laughed 2011-12-29T03:00:17.037Z For a moment the dark figures stood as still as so many statues, and then a sepulchral voice arose among them. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z The Etruscan sepulchral paintings represent the disembodied souls on their way to the land of spirits. The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z Soon the moon came out and brilliantly lit the opens,—the glistening river, the stretches of white sand, the farmer's fields,—and intensified the sepulchral shadows of the lofty bluffs which overhang the scene. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Apertures were common in ancient sepulchral monuments, alike in Hindostan and England; one perforated stone is preserved as a relic in the precincts of an old church in modern Rome. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z Mr. Black is another, that man of gloomy face and sepulchral voice. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Of all this vast enterprise of Greece and Rome not a trace remains: only the sepulchral writings of mother Egypt and the clay tablets of Assyria. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z After bidding their family farewell they were carried to the sepulchral cave, nothing but a bowl of milk being left them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The possibility of having to spend the night under the sepulchral arches of this forested morass was not pleasant to contemplate. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z This is contradicted by the sepulchral pillar, inasmuch as Cambyses causes a place to be prepared for the burial of this Apis, and we have a picture of Cambyses in adoration before this Apis. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z It was a voice that seemed to come from the clouds, and a strange, sepulchral tone it had. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z But behind the sculptures, though not accessible from them, sepulchral chambers have been discovered. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z This cry of jubilation was uttered in a sepulchral whisper. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Two owls, floating over the tree-tops, hooted sepulchrally but melodiously to each other. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Exactly the same style which marks them belongs also to a mass of sepulchral monuments at Athens, and such works as the Sidonian sarcophagus of the Mourning Women, to be presently mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z "Major Yeates," she said sepulchrally, and yet with some inward thrill in her voice, "I think the sooner we start for home the better." In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z The site of this battle, like that of the Southern Moytura, abounds to this day in sepulchral monuments. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z But this was made at a time when sepulchral monuments were frequently of a very debased character. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z At every turn we saw hundreds from the farthest parts of the immense empire of Russia; perhaps at that time more than three thousand were wandering in these sepulchral chambers. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Such figures are familiar to us in the art of the second Attic school; we could easily find parallels to the sarcophagus among the 4th-century sepulchral reliefs of Athens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z It must be admitted that the Renaissance character of these sepulchral monuments contrasts rather oddly with the Gothic surroundings. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z On the plain where it was fought, there are still great numbers of mounds, cromlechs, and other sepulchral monuments. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z But it was spoken in a deep, sepulchral voice, as though he reserved to himself a mental protest against even this small conformity to the world's civility. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z That story ended when the body was returned to the family and “it became fixed and sepulchral,” ongoing primarily in the guest books at the tomb, where visitors can sign and leave comments. Predappio Journal: Tourists Still Drawn to Tomb of Mussolini, ?Il Duce,? in Italy 2011-11-02T18:58:26Z "You haven't come to the hill yet", said a sepulchral voice in the corner. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z The great beauty of the sepulchral chamber is its dome, which is highly ornamented, and sparkles with brilliants. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z Ogam, a sort of writing, often used on sepulchral stones to mark the names of the persons buried. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z A convulsion passed over the sick man's face, and his lip quivered as he answered in a low sepulchral tone. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Then, daughter of O'Donnell! dry Thine overflowing eyes, and turn Thy heart aside; For Adam's race is born to die, And sternly the sepulchral urn Mocks human pride! A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z He was a sharp-eyed, rather cadaverous-looking man, and he spoke with sepulchral hollowness. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z We saw nobody; and our own voices, and the tramping of our horses upon the deserted pavements, sounded hollow and sepulchral in our ears. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and certainly nothing in romantic literature can surpass in dramatic interest the revelation which awaited the Boolak officials in the subterranean sepulchral chambers of Deir-el-Bahari. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z His voice was so hollow, and had such a sepulchral sound, that those who heard it stared at each other in astonishment and affright. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The upper storey is reached by two flights of steps which, built outside, give entrance to the sepulchral chamber from a gallery or platform that circulates round the exterior. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z When they met again, Paul began skipping and dancing, as if he had gone quite out of his senses, and every now and then between the skips he gave a sepulchral groan. The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z The following classification has been adopted, but the classes are not perfectly distinct, as the sepulchral reliefs sometimes partake of a votive character. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Thus, upon mere incidental occasions, I have collected sepulchral memorials from many churches in various parts of the country; and, in some instances, all contained in the village church, and the adjacent burying-ground. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-09-25T02:00:16.433Z It is figured as a tree of life on an Egyptian sepulchral tablet certainly older than the fifteenth century B.C., and preserved in the museum at Berlin. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z A figure of the saint lies stretched on the sepulchral urn that usually holds the silver casket. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z "My name is Topham Vinson," said one of the swaddled men in a sepulchral voice. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z The Greek sepulchral reliefs are of several distinct types, each type having an independent origin and history, though occasionally the different types are blended one with another. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z I did laugh, but the sepulchral echoes of my hilarious cackle rather chilled me, and I began to dress. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z Lilian and I were engaged, and we were in church together on Sunday, and the poodle, resisting all attempts to eject him, forbade our banns with sepulchral barks.... The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Between them and the early Lombard church of S. Giovanni in Fonte is a tortuous corridor lined with sepulchral slabs of many archbishops and bishops. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The train moved off, a bell on the engine ringing sepulchrally. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z These vases which are sometimes lekythi, and sometimes amphorae or hydriae, may be decorated with patterns, or with subjects in relief, such as appear on other sepulchral stelae. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Sparse examples of the furniture of Egypt, Nineveh, Greece and Rome are to be found in museums; but our chief sources of information are mural and sepulchral paintings and sculptures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z “Very likely,” returned Mary O’Rourke, in a sepulchral voice; “for it is on a night like this that the ghost of Sarah Robinson is supposed to walk.” The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z It had great sepulchral inscriptions on the surface of the rocks. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z Over the bluish, snow-covered land, formed by the indentures and hollows, stretched dark-purplish shapes—Titan shadows, sepulchral and ominous, some with shrouded heads, others with spectral arms threateningly upraised. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Hero and Horse.—There is another type of sepulchral relief, somewhat akin to that above described, in which, however, the horse of the hero takes a more prominent position. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z In Mesopotamia cemeteries have been discovered where the sepulchral jars were set upside down, clearly by way of hindering the ghosts from escaping into the upper world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z They are relics of the early Britons,—remains of villages, various sorts of sepulchral and memorial stones, and also some that were associated with ancient religious rites. The Story of the Toys 2011-08-05T02:00:49.720Z He coughed sepulchrally; and a woman giggled in the stillness, and wept quietly into her handkerchief. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z I was assured that these huge sepulchral stones exceed three thousand in number, and the whole aspect of this singular burial-place is, in truth, beyond measure striking—I could almost add, appalling. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z Here also the snake is frequently introduced to mark the sepulchral character of the relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z She is adored with bear-dances by the Attic girls; there is a gloomy Chthonian or sepulchral element in her worship, and she is even blended in ritual with a monstrous many-breasted divinity of Oriental religion. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z They discovered that they had exchanged their comfortable bourgeois home for a sepulchral old mansion, the street’s disgrace, to pick garbage from a pewter plate and drink vinegar from a common mug. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z "No! the ghost of O'Donnegan," replied the youth, in a sepulchral voice. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z "All!" was the solemn echo from each sepulchral figure. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Fragment of the head of a youth, perhaps from a sepulchral relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z On the north side of its church are some old British relics, consisting of high carved stones; but whether sepulchral or otherwise is not determined. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z Just then, with sepulchral boom, “Great Tom” began tolling the hour of midnight. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z A bell clangs forth, slow and sepulchral upon the raw morning air. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z He does this, but has the look of one of his corpses, and falls into sepulchral humor. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z Fragment of the right side of a relief which was probably sepulchral. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z A curious sepulchral monument here is deemed miraculous, on the eve of the circumcision, in curing sick children. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z They could hardly see each other’s face in the weird, sepulchral light. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z This explains the many “finds” of sepulchral urns and various relics beside the road. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Then in a sepulchral tone uttering the single word "Snagged!" he rose and began to pace slowly to and fro between the door and the windows. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Fragment of a relief, perhaps sepulchral, containing the lower part of the body and the right leg of a warrior, who stands on rocky ground drawing himself rather to the left. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z It is variously contended to have been a place of worship, a sepulchral monument, and an altar for sacrifice. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z But even now comets were being observed astronomically, and began to lose their sepulchral aspect. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The river, roaring and foaming, is in haste to escape, and at length is lost to the eye, as it seems to plunge for ever into sepulchral woods. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Having been informed by a musty old sepulchral monk that the remains of Pizarro might be seen behind this grating, Our Artist tremblingly gazes therein—but as it is pitch dark, he doesn't recognize Pizarro. Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868 2011-06-09T02:00:21.267Z Fragment from the top of a sepulchral amphora in relief, with patterns of foliage.—Formerly in Lord Elgin's Collection. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z “I’m ready, Captain,” she called in deep, sepulchral tones, as she paused in the doorway of the living room where her mother sat reading. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z By some they have been supposed to be mere sepulchral monuments erected in late times since the Roman occupation of Great Britain. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The authority was, however, unquestionable, for it came from the agent himself in this dark work, the opener of the grave, the spectator of the grim vaticinator, the listener to the sepulchral voice. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Neale manipulated the levers, and the engine roared spitefully; but the speed did not increase, and that sepulchral thumping under the car continued. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z Circular pedestal or altar on a square plinth, on one side of which is a sepulchral relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z "If there has been mischief done, Bo's'n, let me repair it," said I. "Can you raise the dead?" asked the Bo's'n in tones sepulchral. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Their object has long been a puzzle, and the best conclusion has been supposed to be that they were for sepulchral purposes, as in some of them coffins have been found. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Spirit of Harrington! meditate in thy sepulchral city, motionless and naked as she lies, there to correct so many passages of admiration which spread their illusion in thy “Oceana!” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Suddenly in the midst of the sepulchral silence the iron lid of the coffin sprang open with a jarring noise, and the dead witch stood up. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Fragment of a sepulchral relief, of a late period. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Whereupon sepulchral voices muttered, As of creatures sitting or hanging head down From limbs of the trees, "We will not let you." Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z I think it was clear, but a heavy fog from the swamps had settled over everything, and through this dismal veil the voices of owls from far and near struck with hollow, sepulchral effect. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z A frock coat of silver cloth, a sky blue vest and crimson velvet pantaloons, and immense ruffles covered his long, sepulchral hands. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z "Dismount, monsieur, lest I lay hands on thee and thou diest a horrible death," exclaimed Redward in a sepulchral voice, relying on the cowardice of the foppish Frenchman to gain his end. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Fragment of a sepulchral relief of a late period. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z "Art thou prepared to die?" he inquired in his most sepulchral tone. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z The early morning was charged with a sepulchral mist, impinging upon the senses like sounds vocal, telling of some great sorrow hanging on the crest of the world. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z "Into the tomb where rest the bones of Black Morris O'More," she answered, in a voice that sounded hollow and sepulchral. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z The old habitué of the ballet was painted, hollow-cheeked, and slovenly, and his voice sounded sepulchral. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z At the back is the door of the actual sepulchral chamber. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z "It is quiet," continued Bull, in a low, sepulchral tone. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z The uncouth noise of his breathing hissing through a ragged ruin of teeth, cut the sepulchral stillness of the church room with the portent of some awful prediction. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The tomb itself was open, and its black sepulchral mouth yawned as if it would gladly receive a new occupant. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z All his other poems, when properly arranged, would then be “likened to the little cells, oratories, and sepulchral recesses, ordinarily included in those edifices.” The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z The separate figures would be well suited to a sepulchral relief, on which the seated figure and a figure with a baby might well be represented. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Spearheads, battle-axes, sepulchral deposits, Scandinavian bronze pins, and other antiquarian relics testify to periods of storm and stress before the land settled down into order, towards which the Church was a powerful contributor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z With few exceptions they consist of tombstones and other sepulchral furniture. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z "Or thy soul forfeit!" repeated, from some unknown quarter, a sepulchral voice, that made him start to his feet with mingled surprise and alarm. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z Finally, in a sepulchral voice, startlingly different from her own, the woman began to speak: “I see a girl,” she murmured. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z An early example of the clasping of hands on an Attic monument is supplied by the sepulchral vase above mentioned, of 450-430 B.C. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Their remains are associated with the characteristic forms of sepulchral monuments the dolmens and the long barrows. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z And if the house was the smallest he had ever stayed in, would not Castle Flint seem cheerless, vast, sepulchral, by comparison? At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z "The senses are not the only vehicles for communicating passing events to the mind," said he, his voice already hollow and sepulchral from the previous excitement of the brain. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z Ah, my children," returned the lawyer, in sepulchral tones, "what regret I feel at not being able to endow you as I would wish! The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Fragment of sepulchral relief, containing the upper parts of a bearded man and a woman conversing. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z The brethren, placing their hands upon their left breasts, respond sepulchrally as before, “Swear him!” The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South 2011-03-17T02:00:12.580Z After this a long procession followed his remains to the place of sepulchral rest. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z "Your money or your life!" cried a deep, sepulchral voice at his ear, with such startling suddenness that, with an exclamation of horror and fear, the doctor nearly fell from his seat. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z While all England was in throes and confusion Browne was quietly attending his patients, or pottering along his garden at Norwich, or pursuing his meditations about sepulchral urns and his inquiries respecting the Quincuncial Lozenge. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Fragment from the right-hand lower corner of a relief, which is perhaps sepulchral, with the lower parts of two mounted horsemen, wearing short tunics, cloaks and swords, moving rapidly to the left.—Athens. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z “Gross!” cried a sepulchral voice, which made Septimus start, till he found that it had proceeded from Mr Isaac himself, though his face did not betray that he had spoken. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z Wouldst thou take the crypt's chill damps, And its few sepulchral lamps, For His temple spaces high, For His depths of starry sky? The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z In regard to the mounds, there has been much speculation, and some archæologists divide them into sacrificial, sepulchral, temple, and symbolical. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Many of the best-known epitaphs, both ancient and modern, are merely literary memorials, and find no place on sepulchral monuments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Head of a maiden, probably from a sepulchral relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z It is known that the sepulchral tumuli of similar construction in other places, and possibly built by kindred people, contained much treasure, left there by way of honor to the deceased. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z When he heard the sepulchral voice, he stirred and turned his blue eyes upon the speaker. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Sepulchral.—The sepulchral mounds are numbered by the thousands. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The following is a translation of the most common form of sepulchral inscription. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Head of a youth, three-quarters turned to the right, from the side of a sepulchral relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z I have had the opportunity of comparing the structure and effect of the great sepulchral monuments in the county of Meath, in Ireland. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Connected therewith is a sepulchral chapel, called the tour des Maures. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z His sepulchral tones and dismal appearance cast quite a gloom over the close of the evening, which was only dispelled by the singing of a glee by the Marshely Choral Society. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z These ruined cities contain amphitheatres more or less spacious, and generally in a good state of preservation, temples, aqueducts, and sepulchral monuments, together with numbers of lesser buildings, the dwelling houses of the inhabitants. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Cast of a sepulchral relief, sometimes known as the "Death of Socrates." A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z So, then, we have here, in what may fairly be called a dated record, one of the finest specimens of the sepulchral monuments of the best age of Greece. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z "I have, ma'am, by the tail," responded Johnny's voice, sepulchral in the depths. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z At one end of the room stood a porcelain stove in which a fire was burning; but the large white sepulchral object seemed to chill the atmosphere more than the fire could warm it. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z This opinion of Professor Munch’s is at all events not unlikely to be correct; certainly local tradition has always ascribed a sepulchral character to the mound. Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys 2011-01-03T03:01:08.433Z Group of persons about to sacrifice; from the left side of a sepulchral relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Hush!" said I, in a sepulchral voice; "listen to me. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z Lilly saw a simple white hall permeated with the sepulchral smell of incense, laurel, and freshly cut pine, and in the background a niche decorated to resemble the starry heavens. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Continuing my journey at sunrise, I saw some sepulchral mounds near the church of J�ttedahl. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z “Maybe he doesn’t have enough neckties and shirts, Betty,” added Doris, in a sepulchral whisper. Betty Lee, Freshman 2010-12-20T17:12:25.800Z Fragment of a sepulchral relief, with a figure of a mounted horseman wearing a chiton and cloak. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z "You are dead," replies his friend, in a sepulchral kind of voice. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z A cry, unearthly and terrible, rang out on the sepulchral stillness of the room. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z On both sides of the church were several small sepulchral mounds. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Fiennes shows the artist – the ambition of whose Gestamptkunstwerk is almost Wagnerian, from tottering concrete towers to sepulchral, subterranean corridors dug out of the bowels of the earth – making his art. British film industry will not fund women, say female directors 2010-05-16T21:55:00Z With a sepulchral chuckle, he has patiently, ploddingly deployed the filibuster and other parliamentary rules to block the president's agenda. 2010-01-29T19:10:00Z In the cloister garden are preserved a tesselated pavement and the sepulchral slab of a Roman soldier. Cathedral Cities of England The excavation of the outlying cemetery revealed the unique “Street of the Tombs” and brought to light a great number of sepulchral monuments, many of which remain in situ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" On its north side are several sepulchral mounds. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The ceremony is often performed in a sepulchral mosque, and often in the court, or in a chamber, of a private house. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments "Nearly, Hopkins?" said the exile, in a sepulchral tone. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile Statues, sculptured in a purely classical style, have been found; and vases, agreeing both in shape and ornament with the earliest specimens of Egyptian and Etruscan pottery, have been found in their sepulchral excavations. Heathen Mythology The National Museum, founded in 1866, is especially rich in archaic sculptures and in sepulchral and votive reliefs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" On its summit, a quarter of a mile from Gefle, a number of different sepulchral mounds are observable, composed of stones. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z A small, square, whitewashed building, crowned with a dome, is generally erected as his tomb, surrounding an oblong monument of stone, brick, or wood, which is immediately over the sepulchral vault. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments Blood-red flames and incense rise to the ceiling, and a sepulchral voice speaks in the clouds. The Undying Past "That's a braw gown ye have on the day, Mary," were her first words, uttered in a tone of more than sepulchral solemnity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 Thus sepulchral inscriptions have been found on the Acropolis, though no burials took place there in ancient times. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" "None," replied the latter, in a sepulchral tone o' voice, "neither foreign nor domestic." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 It came over the fondest throbbings of my soul like the echo of a funeral bell, for ever pealing its sepulchral boom through the music of bridal joy. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Yet, from hundreds of sepulchral inscriptions the yearning, often darkened by a doubt, appeals with pathetic force. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "Tetragrammaton Adonai!" muttered the warrior-magician in the holy gibberish of his art, with a voice of sepulchral hollowness, and with a countenance gleaming with indignation or enthusiasm. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico For a few moments a sepulchral silence reigned in the room. A Poached Peerage Still the men who hurried me onward maintained a sullen silence; and no sound was heard, save the clashing of prison doors, and the sepulchral echo of their footsteps ringing through the surrounding dungeons. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 The sepulchral vessels are at times highly decorated, and sometimes of great size. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Whoever will cast his eyes over some pages of the sepulchral inscriptions will be struck with the intensity and warmth of affection, the bitterness of loss and grief, which have been committed to the stone. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In the days of the megalithic folk a sepulchral monument, the very focus of religious ideas, would hardly have been covered with idle and meaningless scrawls. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race He raised his black brows and said sepulchrally: “Who is dead?” Whispering Wires Sightseers call a visit to the sepulchral chamber, "going to see the Baked Monks," it being generally believed that the bodies go through some toasting or drying process which preserves them. The Story of Malta It was a sepulchral temple, and being built on rising ground was approached by flights of steps. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" “It is an oath,” went on the sepulchral voice. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway From sepulchral tumuli in Scandinavia we know actual vessels have on several occasions been disinterred. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race He had not gone to bed, and we filed into his library sepulchrally. The Window at the White Cat The resemblance of these caves at Bingemma to the sepulchral grottoes which still exist in the environs of Tyre and Sidon is remarkable. The Story of Malta Tony replied in a sepulchral voice, and in a few moments was deep in conversation with his preserver. The Gay Adventure A Romance The monotonous lament that the fine rain sent in through all the open windows made the stillness of the house seem more sepulchral than ever. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico This is the great sepulchral tumulus now called New Grange, on the Boyne. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race BRASSES, MONUMENTAL, a species of engraved sepulchral memorials which in the early part of the 13th century began to take the place of tombs and effigies carved in stone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" In the silence of this sepulchral chamber, one naturally falls to musing upon the vanities of life and the stern reality of the end. The Story of Malta Girl!" he cried, in a sepulchral voice, "are you really in earnest? In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. The sepulchral chamber was a friendly little chapel, in which the coffins stood on the floor. Magnhild Dust “Man,” as Sir J. Simpson has well said, “has ever conjoined together things sacred and things sepulchral.” Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race "Girls," a sepulchral voice whispered suddenly in Jean's ear, "we have just ten minutes to get to the hotel to call on those dreadful Harmons, if we rush off this minute." The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold In and around Boli are numerous marbles with Greek inscriptions, chiefly sepulchral, and architectural fragments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" "Follow me!" said the sepulchral monk curtly, and pointing upwards as the sound of a bell was wafted down to them faintly. The Firebrand Sometimes the inhabitants of a village deposited their dead in one great cavern, but generally each family had a distinct sepulchral cave. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Sligo, which is remarkable for the number of sepulchral monuments still scattered over it. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race The deathlike stillness and tomblike hush, the sepulchral gloom, the graveyard silence that sometimes prevails in libraries, should not be encouraged. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses “No, never—trust not Malinch�—let us die together,” was echoed by many sepulchral voices, that seemed more like the groans of the dead, than the remonstrances of the living. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 Here she waved her little claw-like hand, heavy with gems, in a sort of sepulchral suggestiveness, and took refuge in coffee. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The other famous sepulchral cavern, called Auraka, is situated on the western side of the island. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II "And you didn't care either, I dare say," says Mr. Kennedy, in a tone that is positively sepulchral, and, considering all things, very well done indeed. Faith and Unfaith In the 5th century this practice was revived at Athens, chiefly in the class of lekythoi or oil-flasks devoted exclusively to sepulchral uses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Such qualities were especially to be desired in the making of those sepulchral monuments which were so numerous in their period. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction He gave me a sepulchral, "Good morning, sir," and sat down at his desk without even lighting his pipe. Hempfield A Novel The openings, which seemed to lead into the interior of the monument, may have given access to the sepulchral chamber where the bodies of the dead were deposited. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The doorways which are seen interrupting the lines of graves are those of the family sepulchral chambers, or cubicula, of which we shall speak more particularly hereafter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" As he shivered he realized that this sepulchral place had filled with plausible inhabitants—shapes as restless and unsubstantial as if sprung solely from a morbid somnambulism. The Gray Mask "I s'pose I shall have to spare you, if you think you would like to go," added Mrs. Bowen, in her sepulchral tone of voice. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation What sorrow ever crosses this threshold?" and then, with a sudden revulsion, he stared me fixedly, and said in a low sepulchral voice, "She is dead—dead! Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) This view is likely enough, and is confirmed by the large number of cairns about it, which appear to be sepulchral. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II In the pagan cemeteries, on the other hand, the sepulchral recess as a rule entered the rock like an oven at right angles to the corridor, the body being introduced endways. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The sullen and sepulchral air of the room seemed to vibrate with the wraiths of those efforts. The Gray Mask "It is sin, great and heinous sin," said that individual, in his sepulchral voice; "and I think it my duty to denounce such iniquity." Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. A valuable collection of sepulchral remains has been made and placed in the local museum. The Towns of Roman Britain The sepulchral house is neat, built on an eminence, surrounded by a pretty fence of choice bamboos; the enclosure is planted with all kinds of odoriferous shrubs, especially evergreens. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II It consists of a series of apartments approached by staircases, 498 the sides pierced with sepulchral recesses running lengthwise into the rock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" They can also be recognized in the sepulchral monuments of Greek Asia and of Etruria. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science He had once frightened her by demanding in a sepulchral speculation whether she had ever reflected that the flames of hell were so hot that there a white-hot poker would be cool as ice-cream. Carnival In the Cloister garden of the Cathedral are preserved a tesselated pavement and the sepulchral slab of a Roman warrior. The Towns of Roman Britain So far as their descriptions allow us to judge, these megalithic monuments of the Tongans were purely sepulchral in character; they were dedicated only to the worship of the dead. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The most remarkable of these sepulchral chambers is a large circular hall about 25 ft. in diameter, supported by a huge cylindrical pillar hewn from the rock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" "Miss Reid and Miss Margaret Reid," he announced, in a sepulchral voice, and withdrew, leaving them to their fate. Harper's Round Table, May 14, 1895 Then they began in sepulchral voices to repeat the following words, very fast, with no stops, and in broad Hampshire dialect: Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder trayson and plot. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Several candles were lighted and stuck about on the rocks, making the black, gloomy cavern a trifle less sepulchral. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War It was proposed to deposit in this ossuary not only the bones from the Innocents, but from all the other cemeteries, charniers, and sepulchral chapels of Paris. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 The walls of the compartments are occupied by arched sepulchral recesses, above and below which are tiers of ordinary graves or loculi. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The sepulchral tablet of a nobleman, called Baba, far away at El-Kab in Southern Egypt, informs us of the fact. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Chantry, a sepulchral chapel, in which masses for the dead were chanted. p. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Ptah was early assimilated to the sepulchral gods Sokaris and Osiris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Within the church are some few sepulchral monuments worthy notice, and a fine organ built in 1707. A Concise History and Directory of the City of Norwich for 1811 A century later the Rath of Nuremberg removed this picture from the sepulchral chapel of its founder, and presented it to the Emperor Rudolph II. Dürer Artist-Biographies That it was inhabited at a remote date is proved by the prehistoric sepulchral mounds, the Hunebedden already mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The coal-black pillars had a somewhat sepulchral look and suggested a graveyard. The Story of Chautauqua "Whitherward, indeed!" exclaimed I, aloud, shuddering at the sepulchral sound of my voice. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. However, although one could stand upright in it, the place had a sepulchral aspect. Peasant Tales of Russia It's all ready," they said, in sepulchral tones, putting their mouths to the crack under the sash, "and it's a pudding. Anne They lay there silently, their thoughts going off into the blackness of the sepulchral night. Deadly City “The wienerwurst is yet to come,” observed Lull, in a voice sepulchral and ominous. Stepsons of Light "Hiram—I must tell you—a secret," came in a laborious, almost sepulchral, whisper. The Doors of Death This little boy generally accompanied his father, and his gay bursts of careless laughter animated a little the sepulchral silence of the mine. Peasant Tales of Russia There is reason to believe that he lies buried at Temple Farm, his country residence near Yorktown, and so called from a sepulchral building erected by him in the garden there. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia One ancient and wheezy cur, however, incapable of any lengthier peregrination than a hundred yards, greeted their approach with sepulchral barks, and behind it came the owner, with his coat half on half off. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion The earth, in all her summer pride array'd, To this might seem a drear sepulchral shade. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Savona knows, Yet no sepulchral honours to her Son She paid, for in our age the heart is ruled 15 Only by gold. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) The old lady told me in a sepulchral voice that he actually died with clubs and diamonds in his hands. Gertrude's Marriage Not only the native form of writing, but the household arrangements, sepulchral usages, and religious rites remain substantially the same. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" As it has never been the custom of the Oriental Christians to bury the dead within the precincts of the church, they none of them contain sepulchral monuments. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant The Vice-Chancellor made an order for a reviver, "no one appearing to oppose;" and, indeed, who could have appeared but a few ghosts of dead legatees to demur to the galvanising of this sepulchral business? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) This sepulchral quiet gave a dismal relief to the noises which issued from the house. Toilers of the Sea Here and there one comes upon a borassus or fan-palm, a candelabra-like euphorbia, a mimosa aflame with color, or a sepulchral baobab. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 From under the cowl a sepulchral voice issued. The Caves of Fear Having lit them, we entered into the doorway of the tomb, and passing through a short passage, found ourselves in a great sepulchral hall. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant And I may observe, that here we have an additional proof of the propriety with which sepulchral inscriptions were referred to the consciousness of Immortality as their primal source. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Early Christian remains in Cornwall include crosses, which occur all over the country and are of various dates from the 6th century onward; inscribed sepulchral stones, generally of the 7th and 8th centuries; and oratories. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Mr. Curtis laughed, stretched out his legs comfortably, thought for a minute or two, and then in a slow, sepulchral voice began a narrative which he called “The Headless Horseman of the Harlem.” Under Boy Scout Colors Yes, yes, ignorance and persecution;" the words came in sepulchral tones from the depths of the nearest dungeon, "here have I lain for three hundred years with none to pity or help. Elsie in the South "You are cold, sir!" said the prisoner, in a hollow, sepulchral voice. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Nothing disturbed the sepulchral silence of the scene but the convulsive sobbings of Hortense, blending with the mournful tones of the reader's voice. Josephine Makers of History No other form of statuary brought out their skill and genius so fully as a sepulchral monument. Cathedrals of Spain Of the chapels, the greater number are richly decorated, not only with sepulchres and sepulchral works, but with paintings, some of them by well-known masters. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Strasburg has another great church in St. Thomas, a vast ogival edifice which has some good glass, but which is remarkable above all else for the number of its sepulchral monuments, both ancient and modern. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine The question as to whether or not these vases were made exclusively for sepulchral purposes must remain unanswered; there is no source of information upon the subject. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 "He's transported for life," said Malone, in a deep, sepulchral voice, while all his efforts to conceal agitation were fruitless. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I They are as gorgeous specimens of sepulchral monuments as the reja is of an ecclesiastical iron screen. Cathedrals of Spain The northern aisle has no chapels let into its exterior wall, but a long row of sepulchres and sepulchral reliefs to replace them. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain The bishop lost no time, and his agents went forth into all Germany to get funds to re�rect the sepulchral church of the emperors. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine He also built there the sacristy of the cathedral and a sepulchral chapel for his family. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" They rode down into gorges, deep crevices, in which reigned a sepulchral penumbra and where buzzards hopped close by the dead body of some abandoned animal. Sónnica Behind the altar stood a masked man, draped in a long shroud, who was mouthing in a sepulchral tone the obligation to several men kneeling in front of the altar. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys "The spirits of many of the dead are present," said the sepulchral voice within the cabinet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. Mrs. Carlyle had brought her floral tribute to the sepulchral urn, and, having carefully arranged her daily Arkja, had seated herself on the steps to rest. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part As over the cold, sepulchral stone Some name arrests the passer-by, Thus when thou viewest this page alone May mine attract thy pensive eye. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Sally turned away thoughtfully into the house; there was no one in the kitchen, and the tick of the old clock sounded lonely and sepulchral. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine "Let it be so recorded," said a sepulchral voice from the other extremity of the room. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys And now Father Ignatius feels with terror that something sepulchrally cold is penetrating his ear and congealing his brain; it is Vera, who is continually answering him with the same prolonged silence. Contemporary Russian Novelists Colman at once threw down his pen, and ran forth to see the procession, but was disappointed to find it much less splendid and imposing than the sepulchral pomp of Garrick five years before. Old and New London Volume I “Bring matches,” she said in a sepulchral whisper. Betty Wales Freshman From the sovereign to the meanest subject, every man underwent a sepulchral inquisition. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition At the crash of his footsteps the stump actually turned around and gave a sepulchral groan. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys As the Greeks gave the strong, smooth life-current circulating through their heroes; so did these men of the fifteenth century give the gentle and harmonious ebbing after-life of death in their sepulchral monuments. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II Weighed upon by the opaque and almost sensible darkness, I listened eagerly for anything to break the sepulchral quiet. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Yet how many of the young and beautiful, timid in every thing else, and formed for delight, have shut their eyes upon the world, and made the waters their sepulchral bed! The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 "Advance, mortal!" intoned a deep, sepulchral voice: "advance, cross my palm with silver, and hear the sentence of the stars that rule thy destiny!" Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday The Robot's voice was a furtive sepulchral whisper that filled me with awe. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 There remained, therefore, for sculpture, unless contented to dwindle down into brass and gold miniature work, no regular employment save that connected with sepulchral monuments. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II “You don’t know anything about your Brigadier,” he added in a sepulchral murmur, the echo of an empty canteen. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 “Who’s there?” said a voice, whose sepulchral tones might have belonged to the sexton of the Holy Tomb. Across Asia on a Bicycle "Not very far off," replied the other, in what seemed to Gérard a most sepulchral tone of voice. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Whence, then, originated that stalking skeleton, suggesting so many false and sepulchral ideas, and which for us has so long served as the image of death? Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Down in the hall the last of the heroes was dying, and Dugan's orchestra rendered Taps sepulchrally. The Wishing Moon The windows are blocked up with stones, the exterior is a mere mound of grass like a sepulchral tumulus. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery It has a nave and north aisle with a small sepulchral chapel appendant. The History and Antiquities of Horsham The sepulchral chapels built by Henry the Third and Henry the Seventh might have stood alone in their glory. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 Hail then the peaceful spirit of the literary historian, which sitting amidst the night of time, by the monuments of genius, trims the sepulchral lamps of the human mind! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Probably it was little over a minute when the man outside knocked again—a loud, sepulchral, single knock, with determination in it. When Ghost Meets Ghost "I suppose Mrs. Coleman has already informed you?" he began in sepulchral tones. The Co-Citizens Recent research has established the much more reasonable theory that these monuments are sepulchral in character, and that they mark the last resting-places of persons of tribal importance, chiefs, priests, or celebrated warriors. Legends & Romances of Brittany Without it, the utter absence of noise would be sepulchral. The Hate Disease Their footsteps echoed hollowly in the sepulchral chamber. The Dueling Machine This change in the feeling with which sepulchral monuments were designed, from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries, has been common to the whole of Europe. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) It is found in the greatest profusion in sepulchral Gothic, associated with several slight variations from the usual dentil type, of which No. 21, from the tomb of Pietro Cornaro, may serve as an example. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The passage ends in a square sepulchral chamber, the supports of which are eight menhirs of grained granite, a stone not found on the island. Legends & Romances of Brittany Full many a change, my only love, On human life attends; And at the cold sepulchral stone Th' uncertain vista ends. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Above-ground it had frozen in the night; here below, when they had descended the rugged sepulchral stairs, the air had a damp warmth, an odd feel of inhabitation. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion At the time of its discovery it was enclosed in a marble sarcophagus, within a sepulchral chamber, under the mount called Monte di Grano. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign After 1848 the German bourgeoisie was temporarily consigned to political silence; but they utilized the period of the sepulchral silence of the fifties in the promotion of their task. Woman under socialism O, still as chiselled marble, the frayed sheet Folds the still form on that sepulchral bed, Hides the dead face, and peaks the rigid feet. Collected Poems Volume Two Gloomy and wide rolls the sepulchral sea, Grave of my kindred, of my sire the grave! My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. The interior has a simple unvaulted nave, a choir of one bay with cross vaulting, and a small chapel, probably the sepulchral chapel of the Castropola, since their arms are on the windows. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia There is a similar sepulchral monument in the British Museum. Needlework As Art "Out of the everywhere," he heard himself say in a hollow, sepulchral voice, "into the here." Occasion for Disaster I saw "old Kent" yesterday after the lapse of thirty years, and protest he was younger than when he rapped sepulchral silence from his resounding desk. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 I think I hear your deep sepulchral tones in the exclamation of, "All that 'ere is rubbage—cut it short!" and it is my intention, my dear Smith, to cut it short at once. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 In the north wall is an arched sepulchral recess. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The sun, though cloudless, darkens, and spreads around a sepulchral light. Adventures in the Philippine Islands Facing the visitor, as he enters the sepulchral chamber, this small sarcophagus—small in dimensions, but in impressiveness how great!—rivets him at once under the taper's fitful light. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work Above her head all sounds in that dim room seemed to whisper for a long time among the rafters as if here dwelt something mysterious, sepulchral, a great grief or a great passion. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court On Dartmoor the lines are invariably straight, and are found in direct connexion with cairns, and with circles which are probably sepulchral. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" In the centre of the nave are two large sepulchral slabs, once bearing brasses, which are now gone, representing two civilians and their wives. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time A sepulchral voice demanded,— "Who knocks so loudly at an honest door?" Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The doctor particularly remarked the sepulchral tone of our voices, which he requested us to make more cheerful if possible, unconscious that his own partook of the same key.' Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas For my own part, I should be much less disposed to pronounce it a temple than a tomb; and, in fact, the whole appearance of this wide dull tract seems eminently adapted to sepulchral piles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 After a troubled look at the door, and pause, as if he meditated a remonstrance, he changed his mind, and answered, "Two daughters!" shouting sepulchrally into his mother's ear. The Rector She cleared her throat so as to pitch a suitably sepulchral note. Highacres There had been a touch of solemnity in it, a weighty sense of responsibility that would have made their first kiss a little sepulchral. The Man Who Wins The floor of the choir is almost paved with sepulchral slabs, though of the two hundred monuments the church once contained barely a dozen remain. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Over the mantel was another version of the sepulchral monument with the weeping woman and willow, in whimsical contrast with the jolly, rollicking fire beneath, which gave us such a hearty welcome. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy We know their architecture exclusively from ruins of public buildings, and to a limited extent of sepulchral monuments remaining in Greece and in Greek colonies. Architecture Classic and Early Christian With a scorching whiff of sulphur and violets, a thin, spiral scream, the music tapered into the sepulchral clang of a tam-tam. Melomaniacs "These are for you, sir," he whispered sepulchrally. The Vagrant Duke It has in the park two ancient sepulchral monuments of great interest to the antiquarian. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel "Then, genl'men, Fall in!" exclaimed the sergeant, the first two words being uttered in his natural voice, but the last in an awful sepulchral tone, like two raps on the base kettle drum. Red, White, Blue Socks. Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series Tonet jeered with a sepulchral laugh, and the two sailors began to curse at the old man with blasphemous obscenities. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Eufemia; and in the cemetery of San Zenone are a tomb and sepulchral urn which claim that they contain the mortal remains of Pepin, king of Italy, the son of Charlemagne. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 This sepulchral idea is a clear-headed one, and worthy of Eastern adoption. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 "Take that man from my house, Mr. Little," cried Mrs. Bays in a sepulchral, judicial tone of voice. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties The suddenness of her first appearance before the man watching at the gate—the fearful hour—the lonely spot—her noiseless tread—her silent demeanour—her sepulchral dress—almost warranted the contrary opinion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 In the great octagon itself the first thing to be done was to build huge piers, which partly encroach on the small sepulchral chapels between the larger apses. Portuguese Architecture She sat long on the edge of her bed, thinking silently; then a silver rocket of sound broke the sepulchral quiet of the flat. The Trimming of Goosie Around him there ascended a choral harmony composed of snores of every degree, reaching from the mild, mellow intonation of Clive, down to the deep, hoarse, sepulchral drone of Uncle Moses. Among the Brigands "Sit where you are, girl," commanded the gypsy in sepulchral tones. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Doth his shade thy floor still darken? dost thou still, despairing, hearken To that deep sepulchral utterance like the oracles of yore? Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 Mr. Norman in his late and interesting volume of travels in Cuba and Mexico, discovered in the latter country some remarkable ruins near the town of Panuco, and among them a curious sepulchral effigy. Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines "I—I was drinking it when I—I heard somebody——" "The ghost of the very beautiful woman whose statue adorns the fountain," declared Mary Cox, if it were she, in a sepulchral voice. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery Then to the elements my frame would turn; No worms should riot on my coffined clay, But the cold limbs, from that sepulchral urn, In the slow storms of ages waste away! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 His mate, who had been hid behind the gibbet-post, and had tried to frighten him with his sepulchral speech, admitted that the winner was a man of nerve, and richly entitled to the wager. Bygone Punishments Can the sepulchral muses have found their way to so remote a district as this? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Churches of this class are usually small, and were probably sepulchral chapels rather than churches for public worship. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture "Bring the culprits before the throne!" she commanded, in a sepulchral voice. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery |
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