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sepulcher
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Definition:a grave; burial place
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Doth not experience teach us, that in the most curious sepulcher are enclosed rotten bones?
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn'd,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Who came to Christ's sepulcher? Matthew says (xxviii. 1) Mary Magdalene and another Mary. According to John, it was Mary Magdalene only (xx. 1). But Lake says the two Marys and Joanna (xxiv. 10)
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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Although his tomb is not so curious
As was the sepulchre of Darius,
Which that Apelles wrought so subtlely.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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"Hello, Beatrice — wife," he said sepulchrally.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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