Need we break up its tombs to see its shattered crosiers and tarnished tiaras, when we see the living figure that sits in mock majesty in the Vatican, with a French garrison in the Castle of St Angelo?
It had been gradually making its way, since the dangerous homage paid to the tombs of the martyrs in the third and fourth centuries.
But one gets the best idea of the past from the great Church of St. John, which is full of the trophies and gifts of the Grand Masters of the Order, and floored with two thousand marble tombs of the Knights themselves.
But the niches were stripped of their images in the inside as well as the outside of the church; and in the pell-mell havoc, the tombs of warriors and of princes had been included in the demolition of the idolatrous shrines.
The tombs of Abydos have furnished material for accounts of this early period.
The tombs of Thebes have given us bodies of ancient Egyptians of more than six thousand years ago.
The tombs of both are in this church, and it is known that to those who, after the capture of the town, desired to destroy these tombs, the emperor, Charles V.
From the hour he entered the Tombs on that morning of the eighteenth of June, Felix Looms began to store up material against the day when he should transmute it into the written word.
He had visited the Tombs once before in his life, but he knew now that he had not seen it then.
Naturally, the Tombshad been most prolific of impressions; the local colour fairly swarmed and spawned there.
A prison van carried them from the Tombs to the Grand Central Station.
At the Tombs of New York, a woman has charge of the department where the female convicts are.
She ordered her private carriage and drove to St. Stephens, where, prostrate among thetombs of her ancestors, she prayed for more than an hour.
They feel that the prohibition of coffins and burying-grounds does not reach the rich, who have their hereditary tombs in churches and chapels, but the people, who have no such privileges.
Littell and myself, without continuing the discussion, then took our way to the Tombs to see Winters.
Upon arriving at the Tombs we were promptly admitted, and saw the superintendent, who at my request directed that Winters be brought from his cell to the private office for our interview with him.
They left us the Pyramids and other magnificent monumental tombs and great masses of architecture and sculptured columns.
The ancient Egyptians built extensive tunnels for the tombs of their dead as well as for the temples of the living.
He found a remarkable number of altars and tombs belonging to a very early form of religion.
To the sunny and graceful Greek the road of the dead was the Via Felice; it was the happy way, the gate of flowers; the tombs were furnished as the houses were, with images of the beloved, and the veriest trifles which the deceased had loved.
The church contained more "altar" tombs with recumbent and kneeling effigies than any other church in the City, but they suffered terrible mutilation from the iconoclastic zeal of the Puritans, many of them having been altogether destroyed.
For the ancestral tombs are temples and pleasure pavilions at the same time, consecrated not simply to rites and ceremonies, but to family gatherings and general jollification.
Are yon--which shimmer 'mid the shady Where moss and violet run to rankness-- Tombs or no?
It stood on the highest ground in 'Division 20,' upon a large level of lawn and flowers, inclosed by a low rich rail of wrought iron in the style of the Scaliger tombsat Verona.
The inscriptions upon these tombs are early records of the elegiac spirit.
We dug, if you please, into an old city, and broke into tombs umpteen thousand years old.
I visited the tombs of the Mamelukes and feasted on the beauty of the mosques (having my feet shod with the provided sandals so that my infidel dust might not defame the hallowed floor).
The architects of the tombs were careful to have the avenue crossed several times by artificial streams, in order to have an occasion for spanning them with these charming curves of everlasting white.
I returned yesterday from my visit to thetombs of the emperors after three days and a half of journeying in the haze created by the "yellow wind," beneath a heavy sun constantly obscured by the dust.
They were formerly very powerful with the Celestial Emperors, and borrowed for their own tombs the funereal emblems of the princes of China.
My journey to the Tombs of the Emperors takes some time to organize.
Tombs everywhere and of every form; one sees nothing else on the plains of Pekin.
We remount at once, after the last cup of tea, to visit the tombs toward which we have been journeying for three days, and which are now very near.
The arrangement of these tombs is regulated by unchangeable plans, which date back to old extinguished dynasties.
In 1879 the choir was restored and the tombs (including that of Sir James Douglas) repaired.
The most ancient examples in Europe are those of the "beehive" tombs at Mycenae and elsewhere in Greece, ascribed generally to the 11th century B.
The very tombswere opened, and the half-decayed corpses torn up and trampled on.
Agostino in that city, in the lesser aisles of which many citizens had caused chapels and tombs to be made for their families; and there, in the Chapel of S.
Lorenzo, because no tombs of any kind are to be seen above, save only the epitaph of the tomb of Cosimo de' Medici, and even that one has its entrance below, like the others.
The remains of Marynia were to be conveyed to the railway and from there to Zalesin where the tombs of the Otockis were located.
A necromancer is defined as one who fasts and lodges at night amongst tombs in order that the evil spirit may come upon him.
Eusebius states that this proves the truth of the assertion that there were two men of the name of John in Asia, and that two tombs were still shown at Ephesus bearing the name of John.
The flight; Mary then fled by a secret passage from Holyrood Palace through the Abbey Church, the royal tombs which had been broken open by the revolutionary mob of 1559.
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