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Sepulchral

adjective

Of or relating to a sepulchre. "Sepulchral monuments in churches"

Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. Synonyms: charnel, ghastly. "Ghastly shrieks" , "The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"

Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial. Synonym: funereal. "Hollow sepulchral tones"

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... voice of the Postmaster. This meant that the boy must come to bed. It was the sepulchral tone that made them jump perhaps. Zizi got up without a murmur; he was glad to go, really. He slept in the room with his parents. His father, an overcoat thrown over his night things, led him away without another word. And the ...

— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

... floor still darken? dost thou still, despairing, hearken To that deep sepulchral utterance like the oracles of yore? In the same place is he sitting? Does he give no sign of quitting? Is he conscious or unwitting when he answers "Nevermore?" Tell ...

— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various

... by the opaque and almost sensible darkness, I listened eagerly for anything to break the sepulchral quiet. But nothing came, save, perhaps, an emphatic crack from the old cabinet that was made by Deacon Brodie, or the dry rustle of the coals on the extinguished fire. It was a calm; or I know that I should have heard ...

— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson

... now in some degree persuaded that no art, Florentine or any other, can be understood without knowing these sculptures and mouldings of the national soul. You remember I first begun this large digression when it became a question with us why some of Giovanni Pisano's sepulchral work had been destroyed at Perugia. And now we shall get our first gleam of light on the matter, finding similar operations carried on in Florence. For a little while after this speech in the Council of Ancients, Aldobrandino died, and the people, at public cost, built ...

— Val d'Arno • John Ruskin

... fashion, and not like the more ancient tombs of the Jews, which we see cut in the rock for the reception of the dead. There are seven lamps constantly burning over it, the gifts of different sovereigns in a succession of ages. It occupies about one-half of the sepulchral chamber, and extends from one end of it to the other. A space about three feet wide in front of it is all that remains for the accommodation of visiters, so that not more than three or four can be conveniently admitted at ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

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