The urn with the ashes of this great man was put into the burial-vault. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Under their instruction, the grave was dug and a cement burial-vault was built here, on the slope of the hill. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I was in the chapel over the burial-vault of my race. ❋ Unknown (1905)
France, her second son lay fathoms deep in the North Sea, with the hulk of a broken battleship for a burial-vault; and now the grand-daughter was standing here in the limelight, bowing her thanks for the patronage and favour meted out to her by this cosmopolitan company, with its lavish sprinkling of the uniforms of an alien army. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)
Anon, it clears the stage of each and any mortal shred that thinks itself so potent to its day; and at and after which, (with precious, golden exceptions once or twice in a century,) all that relates to sir potency is flung to moulder in a burial-vault, and no one bothers himself the least bit about it afterward. ❋ Unknown (1892)
But as the nuns have no private entrance to their burial-vault, and have been by law prohibited from making one; as they are obliged to pass through the public door of the church and walk up the nave, they are at the mercy of any stranger who can gain admittance to the building, and who may be led by idle curiosity to watch the ceremonies which accompany their midnight service for the dead. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
Among other places, he showed him the spot where he proposed to erect a new family burial-vault. ❋ Benson John Lossing (1852)
The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole creation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day -- but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatural. ❋ Unknown (1840)
Parliamentary War; and they have recently (that is to say, within a century) built a burial-vault on the other side of the church, calculated ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
This was the lord De Vere, who when at home was said to spend much of his time in the burial-vault of his dead progenitors rummaging their mouldy coffins in search of all the earthly pride and vainglory that was hidden among bones and dust; so that, besides his own share, he had the collected haughtiness of his whole line of ancestry. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
And that lovely sister, who came to the Manse with her jewelled hair -- But all these miserable things who could prophesy, at the hour when we and the weeping villagers laid thee, apart from the palace and the burial-vault of thy high-born ancestors, without anthem or organ-peal, among the humble dead? ❋ John Wilson (1819)
Now sounded the solemn tolling of the bells, and the bearers were on the point of taking up the coffin, to carry the corpse into the burial-vault of the great church, when loud riotous shouts of exultation and pealing laughter and the cries of an unrestrained joy disturbed and alarmed the parents and kinsfolk, the priests and mourners. ❋ Ludwig Tieck (1813)
He also removed $500 from the bill after Havlik says she pointed out an error in the burial-vault setting charge for the cemetery. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A memorial plaque in honor of Scottish natural scientist Robert Erskine (1677-1718), the founder of the legendary Kunstkamera, the city's first museum renowned for its unique collection of curiosities, was opened Thursday at the Lazarevsky burial-vault of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. ❋ Unknown (2008)
(with precious, golden exceptions once or twice in a century,) all that relates to sir potency is flung to moulder in a burial-vault, and no one bothers himself the least bit about it afterward. ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)
