Who then but must conceive disdain, Hearing the deed unblest Of wretches who have dared profane His dread sepulchral rest?
But raise not the sepulchral stone To mark the spot; Enough, if by thy heart alone 'Tis ne'er forgot.
But 'tis the dim sepulchral light, Which sheds a faint and feeble ray, As moon-beams on the brow of night, When tempests sweep upon their way.
A sepulchral lamp was suspended from the roof by an iron chain and shed a gloomy light through the dungeon.
It produces only local histories, surveys of cathedrals and of sepulchral monuments, books about Druidic remains, Roman walls and coins, etc.
The texts are mostly sepulchral and dedicatory, some of them being accompanied by a Greek version.
They hold, by their contents, an intermediate place between the sepulchral inscriptions, to which they belong properly, and the honorary ones, and therefore are rightly styled elogia.
The sepulchral monuments have been beautifully illustrated in Stackelberg's Graber der Hellenen; for the Attic stelae see Conze, Die attischen Grabreliefs (1893 ff.
The worship of the dei Manes, though undoubtedly very ancient, is not alluded to in the sepulchral inscriptions themselves until the close of the republic.
Their sepulchral architecture was, of all their creations, the most original and the most characteristic of their genius, especially in the forms which we find in the cemeteries of the Ancient Empire.
Monuments have been brought before our eyes such as Plato never saw; namely, the statues of the ancient empire which were hidden for so many ages in the thickness of walls or in the depths of sepulchral pits.
Numerous sepulchral excavations have been found there, and many mummies have been drawn from their recesses.
For any city placed near the eastern border of the wider parts of the Nile valley, a burying-place in the Libyan chain would be very inconvenient both for the transport of the dead, and for the sepulchral duties of the survivors.
Some of these sepulchral grottos declare their extreme antiquity by their imitations of wooden architecture;[174] others by their inscriptions dating from the fourth and fifth dynasties.
But should my sepulchral priest or men conduct them wrongly may he not exist, nor his son in his place.
The Egyptian Belief as to a Future Life and its Influence upon their Sepulchral Architecture.
Their sepulchral inscriptions tell us that their kings and princes of the blood, their feudal lords and functionaries of every grade, made it a point of honour to observe this rule.
Once she had contemplated this idea with the pensive impressions of one leaning over the grave of a hero; and she could then turn as if emerging from the glooms of sepulchral monuments to upper day, to the image of her unknown knight!
The English commander, in his zeal to prevent provisions being conveyed to Wallace and his famishing garrison, had stopped a procession of monks bearing a dead body to the sepulchral cave of St. Columba.
The student of mediæval monumental antiquities will not fail to observe a certain degree of resemblance between some of the Crosses of Heraldry, and those that are incised and sculptured on sepulchral slabs.
Monumental Effigies, Sepulchral Memorials, early Buildings, and early Stained Glass, frequently are rich in authoritative examples of “the figures of Heraldry.
The trombone here drew forth a sepulchral note, representing, no doubt, the trump of doom, and Saul Aronson could almost feel its vibrations in the earth beneath him.
As a rule he spoke quietly, in a sepulchral bass, warning the players to adjust their stakes more evenly on the spots, or announcing the winners of the prizes.
Reddy lowered his voice to its mostsepulchral register, while Harry raised his to a shriek.
Laugh as much as you please at the sepulchral rites of the Abipones; you cannot deny them to be a proof of their believing in the immortality of the soul.
It is incredible how religiously the Abipones perform the sepulchral honours of their friends.
In this connection, it may be instructive to refer to the vigorous contest which has been waged between different archaeologists over the interpretation of the representations of feasts on the sepulchral monuments, reliefs and pictures.
In a Greek dialogue that has come down to us, the old ferryman, Charon, who had come to the upper world to view the customs of men, expresses his surprise at these sepulchral propitiations.
Stretch forth your hand to raise this abject queen, And, like the luminous vision of an angel, Descend into her gaol's sepulchral night.
I know their aim: they mean to keep me here In everlasting bondage, and to bury, In the sepulchral darkness of my prison, My vengeance with me, and my rightful claims.
The tumulus near to "Whittle Springs" is very similar to these in appearance, and may, on excavation, prove to be a sepulchral mound.
The former name is evidently the Anglo-Saxon hloew, a conical hill or a sepulchral mound, or tumulus, in the latter sense a synonym of beorh or bearw, a barrow.
With its infrequent traffic the street, even in the daytime, was like some sepulchral corridor where the past was crumbling into dust, and when night fell its desolation quite appalled Pierre.
Up above, on reaching the courtyard he found it a solitude, whose slumber seemedsepulchral amidst the mournful gleams of the gas lamps which cast a pallid reflection on the lofty glass-work of the facades.
His voice was sepulchral but his conversation skittish.
The grey mist had followed them through the street door, and hovered about the staircase, charging the air with a moist sepulchral odour.
Hamlet had been known to be jealous of the ghost, and the success of his sepulchral bass.
Its sepulchral architecture stood out against the light.
Gwynplaine was descending thesepulchral spirals of the deepest thought.
Above those closed eyelids, where vision has taken the place of sight, a sepulchral disintegration of outlines and appearances dilates itself into impalpability.
It was more human than animal; more sepulchral than living.
He turned the corner of a wall, and, behind in the vast sepulchral light made by the reflection of snow and sea, he saw a thing placed as if for shelter.
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.
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.
For all the immortalities he made, For all his venison, all his right old wine, Will none contribute one sepulchral line?
That's a braw gown ye have on the day, Mary," were her first words, uttered in a tone of more than sepulchral solemnity.
Senator Palomba," said Felice's sepulchral voice from the door.
Felice's sepulchral voice behind her, and at that moment David Rossi stepped into the studio.
XI Felice met Roma at the door of her own apartment, and in more than usually sepulchral tones announced that the Countess had wished to see her as soon as she came home.
The Princess Bellini and Don Camillo Murelli," said Felice's sepulchral voice from the door.
The fellow was somnolent, and in sepulchral silence we journeyed to Vine Street.
A look at his sepulchral face would reassure me, but did not clear up the mystery.
The ceremony is often performed in a sepulchral mosque, and often in the court, or in a chamber, of a private house.
This fresco is so ruined that it is impossible to form any idea of its composition; about the only object clearly to be seen is the sepulchral urn of St. Francis, represented beneath an iron grating in the church of San Giorgio.
The subject of "Sepulchral Cellae" will be found treated of by the late Sir Samuel Fergusson[54] in a memoir in which he figures some of the burial vaults and early oratories of Ireland, some of which are in shape identical with Sta.
There is, moreover, much reason to believe thatsepulchral mounds were opened from age to age and fresh interments made, and in such a practice would be found a simple explanation of the mixing of implements.
Barrows and sepulchral mounds strictly of the Bronze Age are smaller and less imposing than those of the Stone Age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepulchral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
