A similar case of live sepulture occurred in a village near Wiesbaden some thirty years ago, where a girl of sixteen was found with the same signs of suffocation in her coffin as those of that unfortunate young man in Paris.
If undertakers generally would adopt these wise and necessary precautions, living sepulture would come to an end.
In due time the body of the deceased queen was deposited with those of its progenitors, in the ancient place of sepulture of the English kings, Westminster Abbey.
God accosted them both out of the fire; six score years was the age of each; the place of sepulture of both is uncertain.
The Place of his Sepulture is foreshown by a Light from Heaven.
Then did Patrick, and all who were present, glorify God; and with honorable sepulture they committed her holy remains unto the earth.
CXCVI The Sepulture of Saint Patrick in the City of Dunum.
The Sepultureof Saint Patrick in the City of Dunum.
Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture!
On all hands the opinion has been entertained, that they were devoted to sepulture alone.
The place of sepulture was revealed thrice to a blind pauper in a dream.
So many died that there were not boats enough to bear them away to their sepulture in the lakes, and the bodies rotted in the streets.
Most unluckily, however, these excellent men were put to the sword, and all knowledge of the place of sepulture perished with them.
Cachidiablo, Academician of Argamasilla, on theSepulture of Don Quixote.
Tiquitoc, Academician of Argamasilla, on the sepulture of Dulcinea del Toboso.
Monicongo, Academician of Argamasilla, on the Sepulture of Don Quixote.
Even the fallen enemies had been given decent sepultureoutside the town.
At the height of his power, Napoleon dreamed of providing for himself the same sepulture as that of the kings, his predecessors.
They almost always give to the ashes of the Lamas a sepulture of this description.
The Tartar kings sometimes make use of a sepulture which is the height of extravagance and barbarism.
It is of importance, gentlemen, that this august sepulture should not be exposed on a public place, amidst a noisy and unheeding crowd.
They furnished also places of sepulture for their distinguished chiefs, and hence the avenue leading through them, was called Micoatl, or Road of the Dead.
But in the case of urnsepulture the appearance would be far more æsthetical.
Full details of these ancient forms of sepulture will also be found in numerous antiquarian works.
The bodies were brought to the place of sepulture in open coffins, with their faces uncovered.
To the sexten, for meat and drink and watching the sepulture according to custom, 22d.
The authorship would have done no dishonour to Milton himself, to whose place of sepulture it lends, if possible, an additional consecration.
He was interred before the high altar in Worcester Cathedral, having died at the Commandery in that city; but there is neither "storied urn or animated bust" as a record of hissepulture within that venerable pile.
An embassy was sent off at once to Rome to ask for a “Bull” whereby the late Sovereign’s directions as to the place of sepulture might be laid aside.
Euripides had his tomb in Africa, but his sepulture in Macedonia.
Civilians make sepulture but of the law of nations, others do naturally found it and discover it also in animals.
It is probable that from an early contemplation of this dreary spot Shakespeare imbibed that horror of a violation of sepulture which is observable in many parts of his writings.
Louis the Ninth was re-building and re-embellishing the Abbey of St. Denys as a place of sepulturefor the French kings.
Always reserving and keeping the most honorable places for the rest and sepulture of us and our heirs, according to that which reason will justly demand.
The good man waited on me before the rites of sepulture were performed; and though I suppressed the strong descriptive language of his son, yet it was not in my power to alleviate his fears.
The skull being wanting, it could not be determined whether the remains were those of an Indian or of a white man, but in either case the sepulture was peculiarly aboriginal.
We may now pass to what may be called aerial sepulture proper, the most common examples of which are tree and scaffold burial, quite extensively practiced even at the present time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepulture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: burial; burst; bury; enshrine; entomb; funeral; grave; inter; interment; sepulcher; tomb
