The occurrence of sepulchers in or near almost all the San Juan cliff ruins would alone indicate that they were central and permanent homes of the people who built and occupied them.
He did not stir, although the shadows fled, the sepulchers stood up around the field of snow, and slabs and shafts camped in ranks on the slope.
Vines threatened to engulf the circling street of sepulchers in greenery and bloom, and grass to encroach on the flower plots.
The sepulchers are not perpetual, as their villages are only permanent for some years, as long as the wood lasts.
Others, with more respect for their dead, buried them in sepulchers made with niches, where they placed maize and wine and renewed the same annually.
At Penn Cove Mr. Whalbey, one of Vancouver's officers, noticed several sepulchers formed exactly like a sentry-box.
The Watlala, a tribe of the Upper Tainûk, whose burial place is here described, are now nearly extinct; but a number of the sepulchers still remain in different states of preservation.
This is in the cleft of a rock, and, so far as can be ascertained, it has always been customary among the Utes to select sepulchers of this character.
Three of these burned-clay sepulchers were thus raised and examined during the first year of his occupancy, since which time none have been found until recently.
From the golden rim Of shells, dewy with pearl, in ocean's depths The snowy loveliness of Galatea Has fallen; and with her, their endless sleep In coral sepulchers the Nereids Forgotten sleep in peace.
In vain thou seek'st To warm thy heart over these ruins, groping Among the sepulchers of Rome.
The highest power of Michael Angelo, as a sculptor, is seen in his statue of Moses at Rome, and in the sepulchers of Julian and Lorenzo de Medici at Florence.
Near it are the small pyramids, which were the sepulchers of his wives and other relatives.
The Indians are remarkable for the reverence which they entertain for the sepulchers of their kindred.
Behind these were numbers of temples and palaces, while the tombs of the kings and queens were excavated in a valley further back, whose precipitous sides were honeycombed with the rock sepulchers of the wealthy.
And after this defeat Jeroboam never recovered himself during the life of Abijah, who yet did not long survive, for he reigned but three years, and was buried in Jerusalem in the sepulchers of his forefathers.
Accordingly, they neither buried him in the sepulchers of his fathers, nor vouchsafed him any honors, but buried him like a private man, and this when he had lived forty years, and reigned eight.
Now no such royal sepulchershave been found about Mount Sion, but are found close by the north wall of Jerusalem, which I suspect, therefore, to be these very sepulchers.
And both Abraham and his descendants built themselves sepulchersin that place.
He was indeed buried in Jerusalem, but not in the royal sepulchers of his forefathers, because of his impiety.
He was buried in Jerusalem, in the sepulchers of the kings; and his son Abijah succeeded him in the kingdom, and this in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam's reign over the ten tribes; and this was the conclusion of these affairs.
I would that these living sepulchers in which women have for ages been buried might be opened, and that some resurrection trumpet might bring up these living corpses to the fresh air and sunlight.
Tartars, livingsepulchers of tree burial of Tennessee mound burial stone graves or cists Tiffany, A.
Dances, burial and burial food Dance for the dead Dead, dance for Derbices, living sepulchers of Eells, Rev.
At Penn Cove Mr. Whidbey, one of Vancouver's officers, noticed several sepulchersformed exactly like a sentry-box.
The Watlala, a tribe of the Upper Tsinuk, whose burial place is here described, are now nearly extinct; but a number of the sepulchers still remain in different states of preservation.
Three of these burned clay sepulchers were thus raised and examined during the first year of his occupancy, since which time none have been found until recently.
It was in all probability obtained from one of the multitude of ancient sepulchers that abound in the State of Mississippi.
We know that the Natchez and the Creeks included the bird among their deities, and by the relics placed within his sepulchers we know that it held an important place in the esteem of the mound-builder.
Perhaps "mock" would better express her whim, for many of these fair settlements in the days of the Prohibition Laws were veritablesepulchers of crime, only whitewashed by the humorous mood of nature.
Let's go and see how all the pious, whited sepulchers of this valley are getting on with their soul-saving business.
Laborers are sent out to open the one-hundred-year-old sepulchers along the diamond ridges and carry the coffins to one place.
Human nature was the same among the Moguls as it is to-day, and the men who were able to spend a million or half a million dollars upon their sepulchers could afford to throw in a few expressions of humility.
Woe be to you that build the sepulchers of the prophets: for your fathers killed them: Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.
Here, while the monks conducted us, we were showed the ancient and modern sepulchers of their kings, beginning with the founder to Louis his son, with Charles Martel and Pepin, son and father of Charlemagne.
From thence, I went to a place without the town, called Overkirk, where they have a spacious field assigned them to bury their dead, full of sepulchers with Hebraic inscriptions, some of them stately and costly.
The Scipios’ tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchers lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers.
These honored sepulchers enclose the bodies of the saints, their lofty souls the palace of heaven has received.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepulchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
