Sepulchral

'I am the census-taker Time,' I boomed in sepulchral tones. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before,' quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone. ❋ Unknown (1914)

"Kiss my fluffy face!" said the Doctor in sepulchral tones. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Many artists exercised their imagination in both fields; in some specific fields such as sepulchral iconog - raphy, cooperation between religious and humanistic symbolism was common. ❋ JAN BIA��OSTOCKI (1968)

The little girl's eyes were shining; the very thought of that other ghost's "sepulchral" tones gave her a thrill down her back and lifted her out of herself. ❋ Lilian Turner (N/A)

Feeling dizzy, she sank down on the edge of the berth, keeping away from his outstretched body, and pulling the curtains close, so that he and she were shut into a kind of sepulchral twilight. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

You understand, my lord, I said this in hollow tones -- in what I may almost term a sepulchral voice. " ❋ John Cordy Jeaffreson (1866)

Kelley O'Connor, tall and hieratic, was the alto soloist, intoning the final lament with sepulchral beauty, if occasional unsteadiness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Of greatest concern to me was a certain unmistakable foetor—that same dusty, sepulchral stench from my dream! ❋ Andrew Edwards (2011)

According to gallerina Justine Try-Me, the viscous remains of boll weevils crunched underfoot as you approach the Hut in that sepulchral light resemble a C.S.I. Miami crime scene. ❋ James Scarborough (2011)

The sepulchral interiors made it easy to sense the presence of my forebears and my mother's tales came surging back: the cook who grew steadily fatter and fell under suspicion of stealing and eating Uncle Hubert's pet pigeons; the maharajah who tipped my grandmother with a large ruby for nursing him; the shrieks when a cobra was discovered in the bathroom. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Moans of a sepulchral timbre drifted out of the dark, and we advanced into the pitchy recess. ❋ Andrew Edwards (2011)

Nancy it was who began, for from no other man, I was confident, could have issued so sepulchral a plaint. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Red herrings matches in an envelope slide under the door; food orders echo from a sepulchral dumb waiter don't move us. ❋ James Scarborough (2011)

There's certainly an air of the sepulchral on debut single Holland on paradYse Records with its refrain: "Into dust we will all return," but it's a timeless and eerily comforting kind of meditation, on faith, loss and redemption, much like abolition-era hymnals – haunting and healing in equal measures. ❋ Unknown (2011)