In its early days many a noted prelate and honored churchman was laid to rest within the holy precinct of the choir in front of the high altar or in the rough old sepulchres of the surrounding chapels.
The old houses and streets have a dryness and close smell like that in the ancient sepulchres of parched countries.
There are angels in the two inner arches and in the outer, and the naked figures of the just are rising from their sepulchres in the most astonishing attitudes.
Beyond this, other mountains rise from the gulf, many of which resemble the Step Pyramid at Sakhara, one of the oldest of the royal sepulchres beside the Nile.
They will be standing thus, in majesty, when Egypt's royal sepulchres shall have returned to dust.
Hardly had they provided shelter for the living, ere they were summoned to erect sepulchres for the dead.
These are only as the whitewash of your sepulchresto hide the loathsomeness within--'the rottenness and dead men's bones!
These sepulchres have been noticed by travellers generally, even while merely passing along without leaving the beaten track, others have taken the trouble to visit them, but without finding any inscriptions.
These sepulchres are marked out upon the roof, outside of the chamber, by a small pillar over each, with a hollow on the top of it for burning of the votive offerings as above mentioned.
The mausoleums and sepulchres at the opposite end of the city were even more numerous, many having Greek inscriptions upon them.
An excursion to Meroon to visit the sepulchres of several eminent canonized rabbis.
The pediment and moulding of a column lay at my feet,--around and opposite across the valley were numerous sepulchres hewn in the solid rock; yet the infantry of the Syrians were sufficient to overwhelm the gallant defenders.
Our ancestors, indeed, decreed statues to many men; public sepulchres to few.
Here repose the remains of his son, the Rabbi Eleazer; but more celebrated than all are the sepulchres of the great saints and doctors, Shammai and Hillel.
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 sepulchres of this character.
They were supposed to be the sepulchres of martyrs, and have furnished more capital to priestcraft, for the traffic in relics, than would have accrued, for the purposes of agriculture, to the fortunate discoverer of a whole island of guano.
The sepulchres of the Hebrew kings were upon Mount Zion.
Ye are like whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but within are full of dead men's bones!
Ye build tombs for the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous while ye yourselves be children of them which killed the prophets!
Here a pair of rush sandals and a pottery female figure were the prizes of the last day’s work of the season of 1909 among the sepulchres of this region.
They call the Holy Spirit figuratively “a dove without gall,” the expression which is found repeated on some of the sepulchres of children, as indicative of their innocence.
A breath came from the pool, salt and shrewd, and cold as though arisen from those sea-sepulchres whence the fish steal their scales of gold and silver.
Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build thesepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, Build the sepulchres, etc.
I had often heard of the Sepulchres of the Kings, and took this occasion to visit them.
We know not why they are so called; possibly because they are the most remarkable sepulchres that are known in the vicinity.
At Ur, outside the wall already mentioned, there is a broad band of sepulchres encircling the ruins of the wall.
The detached sepulchresexhibit the same imitation of a wooden building.
Among thesesepulchres may once have been the tomb with the maiden of brass.
Many of these sepulchres are obviously intended for three corpses; in the single chamber included in them are generally found two stone benches in the sides and at the back a receptacle for a corpse in a recess.
Other sepulchres present the same general features, but provide for a much greater number of interments.
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