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  • Not a coffin, a sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • A raised sarcophagus belonged to Alexandre Vangeersad, and four graves in the floor housed the remains of the earliest family members.†   (source)
  • Like an Egyptian sarcophagus!†   (source)
  • He was his own sarcophagus, a bold and infallible diplomat who was always berating himself disgustedly for all the chances he had missed and kicking himself regretfully for all the errors he had made.†   (source)
  • Adams had, however, composed an inscription to be carved into the sarcophagus lid of Henry Adams, the first Adams to arrive in Massachusetts, in 1638.†   (source)
  • There were flowers surrounding the raised sarcophagus, and two rows of dark green pine trees in huge ceramic pots lined the opposing walls.†   (source)
  • AND THUS COMMENCED THE GREAT WAIT-Or SO it was referred to by all those who endured the appalling period, roughly seventy-two hours in length, during which the encrypted message sat untouched in its little aluminum sarcophagus, at the base of a power pole on the Kerselaarstraat, in the Brussels suburb of Dilbeek.†   (source)
  • It was the captain who suggested the empty sarcophagus for Spender.†   (source)
  • She marched straight up to the sarcophagus and pushed aside the golden lid.   (source)
    sarcophagus = a coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
  • She crossed her hands over her chest like a mummy in a sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus, like many in Rome, was askew with the wall, positioned awkwardly.†   (source)
  • Luke knelt on a Persian rug in front of the golden sarcophagus of Kronos.†   (source)
  • At his side were Luke and half a dozen dracaenae bearing the golden sarcophagus of Kronos.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus was just like I remembered-about ten feet long, much too big for a human.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus was recessed in a niche, obscured from this oblique angle.†   (source)
  • Behind Luke, the golden sarcophagus began to glow.†   (source)
  • I'd watched my dad get packed in a sarcophagus and shot through the floor.†   (source)
  • Elena Havilliard looked at her husband's sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus over Langdon's head suddenly seemed to rise on its side.†   (source)
  • Then it hit me, what might be inside the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • There was no frustrated pounding outside the overturned sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The girl screamed as the sarcophagus engulfed her in a blast of a golden light.†   (source)
  • And on the dais, the golden sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • I can't explain how, but I knew his sarcophagus lay hidden somewhere inside that pyramid.†   (source)
  • A second sarcophagus had been placed beside the woman, depicting a man.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus was glowing like something radioactive, heading for meltdown.†   (source)
  • Kronos's golden sarcophagus glowed faintly-the only source of light in the room.†   (source)
  • Rising before him, the niche's sole contents seemed ironically apropos-a single sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • "How are you recovering?" the queen asked, leaning against the side of her own sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Through the barrier she could see the front of the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Outside it, a woman and a child of about ten stood examining a battered sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • I thought about my dream of the girl and the golden sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Her likeness had been perfectly rendered on the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • I yanked my hand away from the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Just a simple hole in the wall, beyond which lay a small grotto and a meager, crumbling sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Celaena paused beside Elena's sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • With a raw grinding, the sarcophagus slid off the supports and landed on the floor.†   (source)
  • Deep in the Vatican Grottoes, Cardinal Mortati knelt alone before the open sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Sarcophagus is from the Greek "sarx"meaning "flesh," and "phagein" meaning "to eat."†   (source)
  • He gazed one last time into the sarcophagus before him, and then stood up.†   (source)
  • "Sarcophagus," he stated aloud, with as much academic sterility as he could muster.†   (source)
  • The spits were like coughs in shadows as both men fell into the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • ] As I approached the sarcophagus, the water began to shimmer.†   (source)
  • And of course I needed Hearthstone to break the magic seal around that sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • He led me to a crumbling stone sarcophagus and bowed to it respectfully.†   (source)
  • He pointed to the sarcophagus that stood upright in the center of the MOM.†   (source)
  • Inside the sarcophagus, Zia Rashid floated in white robes.†   (source)
  • She levitated off the floor and floated around the sarcophagus, her ax ready.†   (source)
  • I accidentally swung Jack through the top of Gellir's sarcophagus, giving it a sunroof.†   (source)
  • Its tail smashed a sarcophagus to pieces.†   (source)
  • As the last of the sarcophagus trickled away, Zia's eyes flew open.†   (source)
  • "If there's a wight in this tomb, it'll be in that sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Hearth pointed to the floor in front of the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Once Zia's out of that sarcophagus, she's an easier target.†   (source)
  • Gellir backed toward his sarcophagus, cradling the Skofnung Sword against his chest.†   (source)
  • I sank my hand deeper into the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • There is no hibernation chamber-I did not truly expect there to be one-but neither is there sarcophagus or coffin.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine the four chests of Sangreal documents sitting right here with Mary Magdalene's sarcophagus?†   (source)
  • Little was left to be found except the skeleton, some random shreds of tissue and tendon, and the cruciform-still attached to the rib cage like some splendid cross packed in the sarcophagus of a long-dead pope.†   (source)
  • Someone was here," she whispered, pointing to a spot on the sarcophagus near Newton's outstretched right foot.†   (source)
  • Then it descended into the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Now, as far as I knew, he was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while his chopped-up Lord Kronos re-formed, bit by bit, in a golden sarcophagus, biding his time until he had enough power to challenge the Olympian gods.†   (source)
  • Scrawled on the sarcophagus lid, at Newton's feet, shimmered a barely visible charcoal-pencil message: I have Teabing.†   (source)
  • Sophie moved directly to the sarcophagus, but Langdon hung back a few feet, keeping an eye on the abbey around them.†   (source)
  • Luke pointed to the gold sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The Egypt wing wasn't crowded—just a few clumps of old people and a foreign tour group with a guide explaining a sarcophagus in French.†   (source)
  • Langdon reached out to pick it up, but as he leaned toward the sarcophagus, the light shifted on the polished black-marble slab, and Langdon froze.†   (source)
  • Still, Celaena paused beside Elena's sarcophagus and looked at the beautiful face carved from marble.†   (source)
  • A sarcophagus, engraved with Ancient Greek scenes of cities in flames and heroes dying grisly deaths.†   (source)
  • She often visited the tomb in her dreams—to slay the ridderak again, to be trapped inside Elena's sarcophagus, to face a featureless young woman with golden hair and a crown far too heavy for her to bear—but tonight …. tonight, it was just her and Elena, and the tomb was filled with moonlight, not a sign to be seen of the ridderak's corpse.†   (source)
  • A careless tourist had left a charcoal, grave-rubbing pencil on the sarcophagus lid near Newton's foot.†   (source)
  • At first it was transparent, but as our father struggled and pounded on its sides, the coffin became more and more solid—a golden Egyptian sarcophagus inlaid with jewels.†   (source)
  • From the fear in her touch Langdon sensed someone must be approaching, but when he turned to her, she was staring aghast at the top of the black marble sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • A sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Crossing the massive nave on a diagonal, Langdon and Sophie remained silent as the elaborate sepulchre revealed itself in tantalizing increments… a black-marble sarcophagus… a reclining statue of Newton… two winged boys… a huge pyramid… and… an enormous orb.†   (source)
  • He began with the clawed feet beneath the sarcophagus, moved upward past Newton, past his books on science, past the two boys with their mathematical scroll, up the face of the pyramid to the giant orb with its constellations, and finally up to the niche's star-filled canopy.†   (source)
  • He tried to use his legs to lift as he had before, but now that the sarcophagus had fallen flat, there was no room even to straighten his knees.†   (source)
  • Newton's tomb consisted of a massive black-marble sarcophagus on which reclined the sculpted form of Sir Isaac Newton, wearing classical costume, and leaning proudly against a stack of his own books—Divinity, Chronology, Opticks, and Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.†   (source)
  • The grave decisions facing the camerlegno required information …. information entombed in a sarcophagus in the Vatican Grottoes.†   (source)
  • Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†   (source)
  • A chance for forgiveness," he said to His Holiness, laying the urn inside the sarcophagus at the Pope's side.†   (source)
  • And soon, he realized, as he saw the barrel of the gun appear in the opening beneath the sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The bruise from the falling sarcophagus, although painful, was insignificant …. well worth the compensation that lay before him.†   (source)
  • The guards came forward and with enormous effort slid the lid of the Pope's sarcophagus back into place.†   (source)
  • Langdon lay trapped beneath the overturned sarcophagus and felt his mind careening dangerously close to the brink.†   (source)
  • As the claustrophobic panic closed in, Langdon was overcome by images of the sarcophagus shrinking around him.†   (source)
  • This sarcophagus is old.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus of Diocletian.†   (source)
  • We walked by a sarcophagus, and I remembered how the evil god Set had imprisoned our father in a golden coffin at the British Museum.†   (source)
  • The inscription on the sarcophagus had worn away centuries ago, but I supposed this was Beatrice's final resting place.†   (source)
  • Hearth backed away as the sarcophagus's iron lid blew right off, hurtling past me and slamming into the wall.†   (source)
  • Finally, covered with dust, drenched with sweat, I plopped down on a stone sarcophagus and examined my blistered fingers.†   (source)
  • Standing in front of Gellir's sarcophagus were the two men I least wanted to see in the Nine Worlds: Uncle Randolph and Loki.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus imploded behind them.†   (source)
  • But I stood there, paralyzed, staring at Beatrice's crumbling sarcophagus, until Emma yelled, "Sadie, come on!†   (source)
  • THE SARCOPHAGUS WAS made of water.†   (source)
  • Medical imaging rooms, MRI tanks, and CPD bays flung open like looted sarcophagi.†   (source)
  • Celaena stalked between the two sarcophagi.†   (source)
  • Others were encased in stone sarcophagi.†   (source)
  • The joke at camp was that the next hole, no bigger than a fist, would reveal miniature sarcophagi, undersized urns, a petite mummy, or-as Melio put it-"a teeny-tiny Tutankhamen."†   (source)
  • We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone.†   (source)
  • The pounding of her feet echoed through the tomb as she ran between the sarcophagi for Damaris, the sword of the ancient king.†   (source)
  • Langdon had attempted to board it once, but the "viewing capsules" reminded him of sealed sarcophagi, and he opted to keep his feet on the ground and enjoy the view from the airy banks of the Thames.†   (source)
  • Recessed in the alcoves, as far as the lights let them see, the hulking shadows of sarcophagi loomed.†   (source)
  • He had mentioned that papal sarcophagi were above ground and never cemented shut, a throwback to the days of the pharaohs when sealing and burying a casket was believed to trap the deceased's soul inside.†   (source)
  • We re-entered the mortal realm and found ourselves in the middle of the collection: sarcophagi in glass cases, hieroglyphic scrolls, statues of gods and pharaohs.†   (source)
  • The Twin Heroes of the Navaho had to pass not only the clashing rocks, but also the reeds that cut the traveler to pieces, * The sarcophagus or casket is an alternative for the belly of the whale.†   (source)
  • 5' Indeed, the physical body of the hero may be actually slain, dismembered, and scattered over the land or sea—as in the Egyptian myth of the savior Osiris: he was thrown into a sarcophagus and committed to the Nile by his brother Set,* and when he returned from the dead his brother slew him again, tore the body into fourteen pieces, and scattered these over the land.†   (source)
  • The orange light through the drawn blind, the sarcophagus of her figure on the bed, the spot of face, the voice searching the vacuity of her illness and finding only remote abstractions.†   (source)
  • A grand piano stood massively in a corner, with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a somber and polished sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • At some distance opposite, the outer walls of Sarcophagus College—silent, black, and windowless—threw their four centuries of gloom, bigotry, and decay into the little room she occupied, shutting out the moonlight by night and the sun by day.†   (source)
  • And that Sarcophagus; and Up that lane Crozier and Tudor: and all down there is Cardinal with its long front, and its windows with lifted eyebrows, representing the polite surprise of the university at the efforts of such as I." "Come along, and I'll treat you!"†   (source)
  • Lying in it, as in a grave or sarcophagus, with a hurried drapery of sheet and blanket thrown across it, was the body of a heavily-made man, with an obtuse head, and coarse, mean, common features.†   (source)
  • In each of the angles of the chamber stood on end a gigantic sarcophagus of black granite, from the tombs of the kings over against Luxor, with their aged lids full of immemorial sculpture.†   (source)
  • And who substituted for the ancient gothic altar, splendidly encumbered with shrines and reliquaries, that heavy marble sarcophagus, with angels' heads and clouds, which seems a specimen pillaged from the Val-de-Grâce or the Invalides?†   (source)
  • The ancients decorated their sarcophagi with symbols of life and procreation, some of them even obscene.†   (source)
  • They fixed their eyes simultaneously on the case opposite them, and when the official figure had vanished down a vista of mummies and sarcophagi Archer spoke again.†   (source)
  • Are they going to decorate their 'Hall of Life' with obscene symbols, like the ones found on many ancient sarcophagi?†   (source)
  • I gazed with unquiet eye upon the sarcophagi in the angles of the room, upon the varying figures of the drapery, and upon the writhing of the parti-colored fires in the censer overhead.†   (source)
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