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Example sentences for "sepulcher"

Lexicographically close words:
septicemia; septima; septimo; septs; septum; sepulchers; sepulchral; sepulchre; sepulchres; sepulchrum
  1. No Holy Sepulcher can compare with this in contained and sustained emotion.

  2. Croix, that is fashioned in memory of the sepulcher shrine at Jerusalem, is a jubé almost wholly of the Renaissance.

  3. In front of every place of sepulcher stands a small urn for water, with a brush hanging by, with which to sprinkle the flowers.

  4. He was buried on a little elevation overlooking Sleepy Hollow and the river he loved, amidst the scenes which his magic pen has made classic and his sepulcher hallows.

  5. Placidia was also prudent and foreseeing, and built this once magnificent sepulcher for her own occupation.

  6. He was buried under the little river Basentius, which was turned out of its course while the sepulcher was constructing, and then restored to its former channel.

  7. The immediate occasion of the Crusades was the hard treatment of the Christian pilgrims who visited the sepulcher of Christ in Jerusalem.

  8. Hence nothing remains of his sepulcher at Ravenna but his empty mausoleum.

  9. The central structure of the Báb’s Sepulcher was built while the precious life of its builder was hanging perilously in the balance.

  10. Announce to the friends that signature on contracts for arcade of the Báb’s Sepulcher is synchronizing with first contract for interior ornamentation of the Mother Temple of the West.

  11. How could any one raise a dead man who had been laid away in the sepulcher for days, and who had already begun to turn back to dust; how with a word could he call him forth?

  12. The condition of many is like Lazarus when he came out of the sepulcher bound hand and foot.

  13. Arrived in the valley of Josaphat, the body was gently placed in a sepulcher of stone not far from the Garden of Olives.

  14. The disciples, when they found not the body, went away; but Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher.

  15. In the dim gray of the resurrection morning she is there again, only to find the sepulcher open and the beloved form gone.

  16. As their hopes were disappointed, they had lost sight of Jesus, and with Mary at the sepulcher they cried, “They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him.

  17. Peter, on the day of Pentecost, declared that the patriarch David “is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.

  18. This was the question that tortured their souls while the Saviour lay in His sepulcher during the hopeless hours of that Sabbath which intervened between His death and His resurrection.

  19. The sepulcher will safely hide thy son; Go hence lest thou shouldst draw them to the spot.

  20. The maid will find at least a sepulcher In the dear soil of her loved native land.

  21. So must the boy crusaders have looked as, starting on their long journey, they faced south and east, toward the far-distant Sepulcher of Our Lord.

  22. Its walls had been hospitable enough, however, when the crusaders had thronged by to redeem the Holy Sepulcher from the grasp of the infidel.

  23. The emperor had ordered a very beautiful wooden coffin made, all covered with gold, and decorated so that it looked like the sepulcher of a great lord.

  24. And the emperor gave the King of Fez two hundred thousand ducats so that the sepulcher of Tirant and the princess could be made in Brittany in accord with their great merit.

  25. He had the coffin put on board a galley with all of Tirant's weapons and flags on it so that they could be placed upon the sepulcher where Tirant would lie, to serve as a perpetual memorial.

  26. On the day on which they buried the deceased, about his sepulcher they planted palms, jasmines, and other flowers peculiar to this region.

  27. A sepulcher was erected for him, which became the mausoleum of his memory, and the Mecca of his deceits.

  28. Besides Bunsen Peak, the tourist will find Terrace Mountain, Sepulcher Mountain, and Electric Peak ever ready to satisfy whatever ambition for mountain climbing he may possess.

  29. At the Sepulcher he thought he heard the voice of Christ commanding him to proclaim the sorrows of Christ's land and of Christ's people.

  30. Even the Church of the Holy Sepulcher has become a stable for cattle.

  31. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was destroyed.

  32. To the east of the Holy Sepulcher appeared the Church of the Resurrection, where the riches of Asia mingled with the arts of Greece and Rome.

  33. And Jesus said, Behold, I told you as we walked along the way up to the cross that I would meet you at the sepulcher upon the first day of the week.

  34. But soon the mourners stood beside the tomb, a sepulcher hewn out of solid rock; a massive stone closed up the door.

  35. We seemed to be standing in a burned sepulcher for all around us the houses were black with fire and on the streets no human thing stirred, save soldiers.

  36. What was the appearance of the angel that rolled away the stone from the sepulcher at the resurrection of Christ?

  37. Command therefore that the sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night, and steal Him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

  38. Around the city of the Holy Sepulcher and the tombs of the "saints" has been waged for long years a war between the followers of Islam and the believers in the Christian religion.

  39. So they went, and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

  40. The giant slept the eternal sleep, in the sepulcher which God had built about him to his measure.

  41. Through this small opening one of the men crawled, and crouching in the narrow sepulcher scraped up and threw out a few handfuls of earth.

  42. The Crusaders, on their knees and upon the hilts of their swords, which formed a cross, daily dedicated their lives and their all to the pious resolution of re-conquering the sepulcher in which the dead Lord was laid.

  43. The next morning I went to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and witnessed a part of the service of the Greek Catholics.

  44. It is not surprising that Mr. Wallace has written: "The Church of the Holy Sepulcher gives the non-Christian world the worst possible illustration of the religion of Him in whose name it stands.

  45. Stooping down, the visitor passes through a low opening and enters the Chapel of the Sepulcher proper, a room only six and a half feet long and six feet wide.

  46. For centuries the business of Christians was to wrest from the followers of Mohammed the empty sepulcher of Christ.

  47. Were the angels who rolled away the stone and sat clothed in shining garments in the empty sepulcher of Christ a couple of personifications?

  48. These have their mouth agape already now, Their throat an open sepulcher for him.

  49. I heard and saw with a bewildered wit; And though I afterward remembered all, I did not at the moment understand Well anything save that the sepulcher Was empty of the body of the Lord.

  50. In one is the sepulcher of the haughty Elizabeth; in the other is that of her victim, the lovely and unfortunate Mary.

  51. The walls of Elizabeth's sepulcher continually echo with sighs of sympathy heaved at the grave of her rival.

  52. In the midst of this grand mausoleum stands the sepulcher of its founder--his effigy, with that of his queen, extended on a sumptuous tomb, and the whole surrounded by a superbly wrought brazen railing.

  53. With what pomp do they swell through its vast vaults, and breathe their awful harmony through these caves of death, and make the silent sepulcher vocal!


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepulcher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.