(Archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs.
1 Aye, he knew as soon as we saw this grave mound .
2 So shall I lie some day in a grave mound .
3 Suddenly I see next to me on the grave mound a crouching gray figure.
4 Now both the opening and closing of Sigurd's grave mound seem very strange to me.
5 When it was done, the adults gathered around the grave mound and stood in silence.
6 When she reached the grave mound she sang:-
7 He knelt, creaking, and reached a shaking finger down to the book on the grave mound .
8 Thou angel figure above thy grave mound .
9 Simon let himself down from the wall and with a stifled cry landed on a freshly made grave mound .
10 The conical hillock is a large near-by grave mound and many others serrate the sky line on the hill beyond.
11 Tongues of fire curled around the dangling body, and a black cross stood on top of a grave mound in the background.
12 He was shot through the head while vociferously urging the assault from the top of a large grave mound near the compound wall.
13 The bones of Christians moulder under the grave mounds , but still the temple remains as before.
14 The sun was growing hotter and the Solitaire's shadow crept slowly over the grass and the grave mounds .
15 Even as he finished saying the words the ground around the grave mounds began to crack and buckle.
16 The men worked steadily, piling dirt atop the grave mounds , and they chatted idly about who lay beneath.
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