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Meanings of tumulus in inglés
Mound of earth and stones raised over graves.
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Examples for "barrow"
Examples for "barrow"
1
Some days there were ten barrow loads, i.e., ten times six thousand.
2
Kit went to the end of the barrow-like mound of the turnip-pit.
3
Mudford and his barrow departed; and Tara looked appealingly at her mother.
4
Then Arthur happened to notice the wheel of the barrow-itssole wheel.
5
They would walk it and excavate the strange barrow, find their history.
1
The first time I visited Newgrange, parking was beside the burial mound.
2
This burial mound is made of masks, a pile of clay masks.
3
He got to his feet using the burial mound for support.
4
Newgrange is a neolithic burial mound, older than the pyramids, located in Ireland.
5
The first cut represents a Danish Tumulus, or burial mound, of this Age.
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.
Usage of tumulus in inglés
1
Not the to-morrow of the tumulus, the hour of the sunshine now.
2
Moreover, the Watchstone is equidistant from the ring and from the tumulus.
3
We made our way to the tumulus of Achilles, some distance away.
4
Then they slew his horse and his wife, and raised the tumulus.
5
Their real world was the place of burial,-thegrave, the tumulus.
6
They went along by the hill; the tumulus was left behind.
7
Here this moment, by this tumulus, on earth, now; I exist in it.
8
It is covered by a tumulus nearly 200 feet in diameter.
9
The tumulus of Achilles was only a short distance from the Greek ships.
10
On returning homewards towards Eastbourne stay awhile by the tumulus on the slope.
11
But the tumulus excited more attention, and I was requested to examine it.
12
The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
13
The tumulus near Mersyn, the port of Tarsus, was plainly visible.
14
While we had been at the tumulus, soldiers had been readying the beach.
15
In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a scorched hawthorn.
16
In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a sorched hawthorn.
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