As we came near and the fire-glow warmed our faces, I thought of Minos, for whom the god himself had raised a burial-mound and fired the altar. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
The sky was pressing on my head with its flying moon and all its stars, as heavy as a king's burial-mound. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
Among these is the stone which once crowned the burial-mound on the plain of Marathon. ❋ Various (N/A)
Each tier as completed -- probably each grave as added -- would be covered with earth, so that the whole formed a burial-mound fifty feet or more in diameter and eight or ten feet high (the bottom tier of graves being sunken), containing perhaps two hundred bodies. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is easy to see that when this custom came into conflict with the son's natural desire to inherit, the sacrosanctity of the dead man's treasure and of his burial-mound would be their only protection against violation. ❋ L. Winifred Faraday (N/A)
The fishing hamlet is close to an ancient burial-mound or barrow, from which election writs were once read and the local mayor proclaimed. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
That this was not likely to have been a burial-mound may be presumed from its formation. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)
Then the Kings and Princes would have made him a burial-mound worthy of his name and his deeds. ❋ Padraic Colum (1926)
Presently, like the peak of some submerged land, we saw lifted out of that rolling waste the "Butt" of Warlencourt -- the burial-mound of this modern Marathon. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
In the midst is an Indian burial-mound, where, tradition says, the slain warriors who fell in that battle were interred. ❋ Unknown (1887)
A singular impression was created by the big heap of vegetable matter, not unlike a burial-mound, from the midst of which emerged the tall, straight trunk with the fresh leaves at the top, telling the tale of a drama enacted in the plant world through which the tree had passed triumphantly. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)
In opening a burial-mound at Cade's Pond, a small body of water situated about two miles northeastward of Santa Fé ❋ Unknown (1884)
And so they brought food, and laid it on the burial-mound above his body; and they poured out their libations of drink to quench his spiritual thirst. ❋ Unknown (1879)
Olev had now built a magnificent city, fortified with towers and ditches, around the burial-mound of Kalev. ❋ Unknown (1878)
The reply was, 'Yes, I shall continue to be; I shall start forth from my burial-mound upon the chase in the shadow-land just as now I start forth from my cave. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
The first burial-mound of which they give a record is the tomb of Hia How Kao, 'the date assigned to it being 1848 b.c. ❋ Unknown (1770)
a minute account of the obsequies of Patroclus and the raising of his burial-mound, which forms, as is generally believed, one of those twin barrows still existing on the sides of the Sigean promontory, that pass under the name of the tumuli of Achilles and Patroclus. ❋ James Young Simpson (1840)
"In opening a burial-mound at Cade's Pond, a small body of water situated about two miles northeastward of Santa Fe Lake, Florida, the writer found two instances of cremation, in each of which the skull of the subject, which was unconsumed, was used as the depository of his ashes. ❋ Unknown (1884)
