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Sentences ending with tomb

Go when you will, you find somebody snuffling over that tomb. [5]
Somehow, the room where his mother had sat for so many years, and where he had last seen his father, John Grier, had a coldness of the tomb. [11]
Melissa knew full well that any attempt now to separate Philip from Serapion would be futile; however, she would not leave the last chance untried, and asked him gravely whether he had forgotten his mother's tomb. [10]
Decrepit age, and vigorous life, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth--on crutches, in the pride of strength and health, in the full blush of promise, in the mere dawn of life--to gather round her tomb. [12]
A hillsman bound up the wound, and he rode on to the Tomb. [11]
In this dense throng and deafening tumult it was scarcely possible to recover that collected calm which she had found in the morning at her mother's tomb. [10]
Farther away, on the right and left, the light was dim, and near the side walls the darkness was as intense as in a real tomb. [10]
Let Gorgias hasten the building of the tomb. [10]
It was a stupendous tomb. [13]
How many chimneys smoked, how many hands were toiling for this edifice, which was to comprise a royal residence, a temple, a peerless library, a museum and a tomb. [10]

Short sentences using tomb

We stood in his tomb. [5]
The tomb of Adam! [5]
What's that--a tomb? [11]

More example sentences with the word tomb in them

But so it was; and the consequence followed that Old Sarum, with all its grand recollections, is but a collection of mounds and hollows,--as much a tomb of its past as Birs Nimroud of that great city, Nineveh. [6]
But to-day it was too late; he must give up his visit to the tomb of Rameses. [10]
When the corpse was removed from the house to the tomb, a distance of one chain, the procession was met by a certain man who was ardently attached to the deceased. [5]
Inside it was warm and bright and home-like; outside it was twenty degrees below zero, and like some vast tomb where life itself was congealed, and only the white stars, low, twinkling, and quizzical, lived-a life of sharp corrosion, not of fire. [11]
He has held us spellbound upon the plain at the foot of the great Sphinx, and we have joined him in weeping bitter tears at the tomb of Adam. [5]
We saw Polycarp's tomb, and then hurried on. [5]
Even in the tomb of Ti at Sakkara, which dates from the time of the Pyramids, we meet with a chief overseer of the vessels belonging to a wealthy Egyptian. [10]
It is the tomb of Joseph. [5]
I suppose the tomb of David will be explored by a commission in due time, and I should like to see the phrenological developments of that great king and divine singer and warm-blooded man. [6]
Coming to the tomb of Amshar the sheikh, by which was a well, there I found a train of camels. [11]
Even by his tomb I swear it. [11]
Cleopatra had fled to the tomb as soon as the fortune of war turned in favour of Octavianus. [10]
Whatever it was to be, his fate would soon come, and in any case he had done what only one European before him had done--he had penetrated to the tomb of Mahomet at Mecca. [11]
Her tomb was to be built and, if destiny was fulfilled, to receive her lover and herself. [10]
At first her thoughts wandered to and fro like a dove ere it chooses the direction of its flight; but after the question why she was having a tomb built so hurriedly, when she would be permitted to live, her mind found the right track. [10]
He commanded that this work of art be engraved upon his tomb, and he was obeyed. [5]
Hang it on this tomb, and say as you do so--call out--, From Antinous to Selene. [10]
This tomb in this light would be a palace meet for the gloomy rule of the king of the troop of demons conjured up by the power of a magician--if they have a ruler. [10]
He stood before the tomb, looking at it curiously. [11]
He glanced to the tomb under his hand. [11]
He paused beside the tomb of that other Belward. [11]
He stopped at the tomb of Sir Gaston Belward, put his hand on it, and stood looking at it. [11]
When we visit the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides, no side-lights interfere with the view before us in the field of mental vision. [6]
They showed us the tomb of Lazarus. [5]
The visit to the tomb had been intended, as it were, to announce her coming to her husband. [10]
With regard to the inscription on the walls of the tomb, the pedestal of the statue to be placed there and the face of the stele--[Stone tablet with round pediment. [10]
Again the thought that she was risen from the dead sent a chill through his blood--that she would make him follow her, perhaps to the tomb she had quitted. [10]
But Barbara's vivacious temperament shrank from their summons as from the tomb or the dungeon and, with all due reverence, she said so to the kindly nuns. [10]
Dion and Barine talked of their hermit life, Gorgias of the Queen and the tomb, which was at the same time a treasure chamber. [10]
Alight scaffolding still surrounded it, but the lofty first story, containing the real tomb, was completed, and Dion admired the art with which the exterior of the edifice suggested its purpose. [10]
At last he succeeded in forcing a passage to the tomb, which he found surrounded on all sides by Roman lictors and the Scythian guards of the city, who, however, permitted him, as the architect, to pass. [10]
He was a strong man, and by his aid the dying Roman was seized, drawn upon the scaffolding, and carried down the staircase to the tomb in the first story. [10]
The tomb is still a very solid affair,--a rotunda built of solid blocks of limestone, and resting on a ten-sided base, each side having a recess surmounted by an arch. [4]
Paula had been standing close to the entrance of the tomb with Dame Neforis, and she had heard every word of the dialogue between the two men. [10]
You seem to sit with the dead in the gloom of a tomb. [5]
From this I shall go to the tomb of my father, where I shall take off this coarse thing, and these other disfigurements, and shall wait for my chariot, which is already ordered. [10]
The Mahmal, or Sacred Carpet, was leaving Cairo on its long pilgrimage of thirty-seven days to Mecca and Mahomet's tomb. [11]
Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall, the lowly trench of earth, the stately tomb on which no epitaph remained--all--marble, stone, iron, wood, and dust--one common monument of ruin. [12]
The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. [5]
Since she had resolved to build the tomb, granting it became impossible, yet Octavianus made every effort to tempt her to the base deed. [10]
Then she was ready for the tomb. [5]
You rattle on quite playfully, and with measureless extravagance, about how you wept at the tomb of Adam; and all in good time you find to your astonishment that no end of people took you at your word and believed you. [5]
He came up puffing and blowing, and offered to show us Shakespeare's tomb. [4]
The shady paradises--[Persian pleasure-gardens]--and colonnades by which it was surrounded had been planned by Croesus, and in the midst of the sacred grove was a dwelling-house for the Magi appointed to watch over the tomb. [10]
It would make Philippus happy--you have just heard him say so--to remember his old master beside the tomb of Alexander. [10]
A crowd of people collected in front of the tomb, and he would have fared badly if it had not been for the police guard who drove them away. [10]
The portraits were painted on thin panels of sycamore or of cypress, and in most of them the execution betrayed that their destiny was to be hidden in the gloom of a tomb. [10]
It has turned out a pleasant evening, and what a bad one I looked forward to--" "Because the woman by the tomb startled you? [10]
One would be only half-married--civilly, and not fashionably--without a chrysanthemum wedding; and it lights the way to the tomb. [4]
As one sees on some ancient urn, upthrown From out a tomb, records that none may read With like interpretation, and the stone Retains its graven fealty to the dead: So, on the great palimpsest men have writ Such lines o'ercrossed that none interprets it. [11]
Across one end of this inclosure is a tomb built after the manner of the Moslems. [5]
By the Fountain of the Sweet Waters, which is over against the Tomb where the Dakoon should sleep, another thousand men were patrolled, with a hundred hillsmen, commanded by a kinsman of Pango Dooni. [11]
Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to fly upwards. [2]
Upon the tomb of Mahomet I will set my lips, and it may be that the leaf of my life will come fresh and green again. [11]
The false report of her death, which had induced Antony to put an end to his life, had perhaps arisen from the fact that the Queen was literally in the tomb. [10]
This symmetrical Pyramid of Cheops--this solid mountain of stone reared by the patient hands of men--this mighty tomb of a forgotten monarch--dwarfs my cherished mountain. [5]
The largest, tomb of Alyattes, still measures 3400 feet in circumference, and the length of its slope is 650 feet. [10]
Twenty centuries from now New York will still be New York, still a vast city, and the most notable object in it will still be the tomb and monument of General Grant. [5]
But thou--wilt thou not come also to the lord Mahomet's tomb? [11]
I had no need to hurry, for the first picture is to be hidden in the tomb, and I could give all my care to the second. [10]
And so her mother's tomb had become her favorite place of rest. [10]
And then a mere chirping of crickets at the tomb of such illustrious dead, followed by the disorderly squalling of an immense mob--it had nearly cracked her ears! [10]
Where was the long-lived Chafra who had despised the gods, and, defiant in the consciousness of his own strength, was said to have closed the gates of the temples in order to make himself and his name immortal by building a tomb of superhuman dimensions? [10]
Pleased with the little new garment which she herself had woven for him and embroidered with a tiny tree with red apples, beneath which stood a bright-plumaged duckling, she led him by the hand in the necropolis to the empty tomb dedicated to his father. [10]
Over to the left, on the opposite side of the harbour, were wide bungalows shining in the sun, and flanking the side of the ancient aqueduct, the gigantic tomb of an Arab sheikh. [11]
Several of the kahilis were then fastened to a frame-work in front of the tomb, there to remain until they decay and fall to pieces, or, forestalling this, until another scion of royalty dies. [5]
The tomb of Joseph, the dutiful son, the affectionate, forgiving brother, the virtuous man, the wise Prince and ruler. [5]
A newspaper has its faults, and plenty of them, but no matter, it's hark from the tomb for a dead nation, and don't you forget it. [5]
The towns on its banks dwindled into huge funereal urns, surrounding the vast corpse of the Nile as in a tomb. [10]
Opposite the tomb is the shabby old brick house of the Polentas, where Dante passed many years of his life. [4]
However, his tomb is in a good state of preservation. [5]
She had also intended, after she had somewhat recovered from the visit to the tomb, to be robed in fresh garments. [10]
Then, after sacrificing in the tomb of his ancestors, he set out for Syria. [10]
Beneath the cliffs in the sea was a rocky islet called Janvrin's Tomb. [11]
They are stuck in the ground around the tomb and left there. [5]
The two cenotaphs in the center of the exquisite enclosure have no carving except the plain Kalamdan or oblong pen-box on the tomb of Emperor Shah Jehan. [5]
Dr. Oliver practised in Cambridge, where may be seen his tomb with inscriptions, and with sculptured figures that look more like Diana of the Ephesians, as given in Calmet's Dictionary, than like any angels admitted into good society here or elsewhere. [3]
I cannot tell: I know you but As bee the clover bloom, That sips content, and straightway builds Its mansion and its tomb. [11]
Back yonder, an hour's journey from here, we passed through an Arab village of stone dry-goods boxes (they look like that,) where Noah's tomb lies under lock and key. [5]
The dervish congratulated himself that although the only monument of his grave would be a brick, he should at the last day arrive at and enter the gate of Paradise before the king had got from under the heavy stones of his costly tomb. [4]
I have found him breaking a stone in two, and labeling half of it "Chunk busted from the pulpit of Demosthenes," and the other half "Darnick from the Tomb of Abelard and Heloise. [5]
The sun was high in the heavens, and he must return to the witch's cave and his board, but he would so much like to go a little farther--only as far as to the king's tomb, which was quite near. [10]
As he passed her mother's tomb, she felt as though a cold hand laid a grip on her beating heart. [10]
And so, turning her grieving eyes about her, where rose the towers and spires of that fair city, she said: "Oh, Rouen, Rouen, must I die here, and must you be my tomb? [5]
For her sake he was revisiting this torture-chamber, from which he knew he must go again, blanched and shaken, as a man goes from a tomb where his dead lie unforgiving. [11]
Here Fate might have its way; she had known the highest joy she had ever dreamed of, and where on earth was there a sublimer tomb than this sanctuary of the sovereign of the universe, whose supremacy even the other gods acknowledged with trembling! [10]
He rested his hand upon a tomb beside him, and looked around slowly. [11]
Gaston waved his hand to the tomb, and said half-believingly: "Gaston Robert Belward, come again to your kingdom. [11]
Nowhere could be gotten a better idea of its age than in this gigantic silent tomb. [13]
After he had gone, the Queen and Iras looked over the plans for the tomb brought by Gorgias, but the intense agitation of her soul distracted Cleopatra's attention, and she begged him to come again at a later hour. [10]
A thousand torches gleamed from the Palace gates through the Street of Divers Pities, and along the Path by the Bazaar to the Tomb with the Blue Dome. [11]
Not until I gaze into Helena's pure, calm eyes will that terrible vision of the face, flooded by light in the midst of the tomb, cease to haunt me. [10]
We entered the Garden of Gethsemane, and we visited the Tomb of the Virgin, both of which we had seen before. [5]
Rises a hope from the fast-closed tomb. [11]
We got away from Bethlehem and its troops of beggars and relic-peddlers in the afternoon, and after spending some little time at Rachel's tomb, hurried to Jerusalem as fast as possible. [5]
He was once found hiding in an empty tomb, which had been left open. [6]
Instead of rushing forward and interposing, he stands studying the light and its effects in the royal tomb. [10]
At last anguish forced even the clearest memories into oblivion: she saw nothing save the tortures of her lover; her brain, still active, revealed solely the gulf at her feet, and the tomb which yawned not only for Antony, but for herself. [10]
Then she plans for the tomb which, under Gorgias's direction, is rapidly rising, and considers with him the best method of rendering it an inaccessible place of retreat. [10]
She had seen father, mother, husband, and three noble sons, all that the Lord had given her to love, borne to the tomb. [10]

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