Tombs

Examples

• We had two noted tombs near us, too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• All oracles were at the tombs of Heroes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have pictures of this from ancient Egypt, in which the process of twisting strips of leather into rope is shown on the walls of their tombs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He took great liberties with the Egyptian temples, and remained at Memphis opening ancient tombs and examining the dead bodies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In one side of it two ancient tombs are hewn, which are claimed to be those in which Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathea were buried. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And the names that be upon their tombs, even unto this time, are Johannes Smithianus, Trumps, Gift, High, and Low, Jack, and The Game. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Long she sat at her lattice, long gazed down on the old garden and older church, on the tombs laid out all gray and calm, and clear in moonlight. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The nettles, the long grass, and the tombs all drip with wet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She heard Mr. Helstone come in; she saw Robert stride the tombs and vault the wall; she then went down to prayers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The men filled the mosques; the women, veiled, hastened to the tombs, and carried offerings to the dead, thus to preserve the living. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These large apartments were tombs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The tombs are set in soil brought in ships from the Holy Land ages ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The gray church and grayer tombs look divine with this crimson gleam on them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It's dull as tombs up here. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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