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Meanings of sepulchre in English

Portuguese
sepulcro
Catalan
sepultura

A chamber that is used as a grave.

        sepulcro
        Usage of sepulchre in English
        1
        Their care went further still; they sealed the door of the sepulchre.
        Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus
        2
        The sepulchre of old Rome is the new capital of united Italy.
        Don Orsino
        3
        In this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed.
        Les Misérables
        4
        Fenice lies in the sepulchre until the darkness of night came on.
        Four Arthurian Romances
        5
        He was an absolute sepulchre in the swallowing of oppression and ill-usage.
        Robert Falconer
        6
        That is the way down to the sepulchre holding the living victims.
        Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
        7
        I think it must be meant for the angel at the sepulchre.
        Tremendous Trifles
        8
        The present moment is the sepulchre of all that went before it.
        Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller
        9
        The air of the place was as that of some gigantic sepulchre.
        Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
        10
        I know the mountains whose entrails were pierced to form the sepulchre.
        The Green Mummy
        11
        And their honorary sepulchre at the Isthmus has on it this epitaph:-
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        12
        The darkened auditorium loomed beyond the solitary T-bracket like a great sepulchre.
        Despair's Last Journey
        13
        The stone seems removed from the door of that sepulchre, her heart.
        The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
        14
        Panthea and Pergamus sit no longer beside the sepulchre of their lord.
        Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
        15
        It is white-washing the sepulchre to make us forget its horrible deposit.
        The Conflict with Slavery / Part 1 from The Works of John Greenl...
        16
        Of that strange and dreadful sepulchre there is little more to tell.
        Queen Sheba's Ring
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