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  • The pair of cabins at the head of the field, numbers one and two, looked like his-and-hers mausoleums, big white marble boxes with heavy columns in front.†   (source)
  • A vast promenade, mausoleum, acropolis, planetarium, library, opera house—everything marble and granite, everything profoundly clean.†   (source)
  • By any estimate, it was a very long time until judgment day, and until then the truth that only Marshall and his bride knew at first hand was steadily being walled up within the mausoleum of their marriage.†   (source)
  • I've been knocking around in this mausoleum long enough."†   (source)
  • For two days they wander around the marble mausoleum that glows gray and yellow and pink and orange depending on the light.†   (source)
  • But then she saw a group of people approaching the mausoleum and from a distance she made out Pedro's silhouette, and Rosaura with him, and she was no longer so sure of her feelings.†   (source)
  • It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set.†   (source)
  • The vast house was like a mausoleum — . without a single sign of life inside its vaulted rooms.†   (source)
  • The words are from a gangster sleeping next to him, on top of a mausoleum.†   (source)
  • The sculpted sandstone mausoleum of moments before had transformed into a sparkling gemstone vault-under which Brom's untouched face was visible.†   (source)
  • Roughly three football fields long by two football fields wide, it was a cement city of the dead, filled with tombstones and mausoleums.†   (source)
  • The wind chills me although the sunlight is warm enough as it glints off the flawless white stone of the silent mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Both Olmsted and Hunt were hard at work on George Washington Vanderbilt's manor, Biltmore, near Asheville, North Carolina, and together had built the Vanderbilt family's mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum in Hanoi.†   (source)
  • But on this level are the mausoleums and the place of burning.†   (source)
  • Very few people splashed through the mud to the family mausoleum, protected by a colonial ceiba tree whose branches spread over the cemetery wall.†   (source)
  • "I have no wish to stay here," he said, "in this wretched mausoleum of a country.†   (source)
  • The house is silent as a mausoleum.†   (source)
  • It had that compact quality of preservation and exact proportion and respectful history that can produce a mood of mausoleum gloom.†   (source)
  • I entered the mausoleum, following all the other tourists in single file.†   (source)
  • He was interred in a mausoleum in Manchester.†   (source)
  • After the gates to the mausoleum had been locked and the family, friends, and gravediggers had retired, I was left alone among the flowers that had escaped Barrabas's hunger and accompanied Rosa to the cemetery.†   (source)
  • You're used to that nonexistent foot of yours, but I haven't quite adjusted to my pristine body pillared, overhanging roof of a grave so large it looked like a minor mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Some had chosen to entomb the remains of their loved ones in niches in the walls of communal mausoleums.†   (source)
  • Over the centuries, they have pried into coffins, crypts, burial mounds, tombs, and mausoleums of every kind and from every culture to amass their collections.†   (source)
  • The number of dead housed in that little mausoleum made me think it was probably just as well Deo had never made it to Butare back when he was on the run.†   (source)
  • In America, women were still trying to steal the body of Valentino from his grave, and a woman from Kansas divorced her husband because he would not let her live near the Valentino mausoleum.†   (source)
  • The monuments are mostly severe and plain, and even the few miniature mausoleums are unadorned, dignified structures, squarish blocks of polished black granite fitted with engine-turned doors of patinated brass.†   (source)
  • How many dozens of obscure Latin and Greek tomes did you read as the marsh ebbed to and fro, the insects buzzed around the marble mausoleums, and the moths ate your father's tweed hunting jackets?" he asked, after failing to salute.†   (source)
  • Inside, it's still as a mausoleum—although unlike in a mausoleum, golden light filters in through mullion-paned windows high up along the walls.†   (source)
  • The question "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?" seems an obvious one, for Ulysses S. Grant is buried in this enormous mausoleum in New York's Riverside Park.†   (source)
  • It was strange that he lived alone in that wooden mausoleum.†   (source)
  • This was an eerie organdy and chintz labyrinth glowing at high noon in the empurpled half-light of a mausoleum, where rosy cupids simpered from the walls down upon a grand piano in fire-engine red and overstuffed chairs glistening beneath protective shrouds of transparent plastic, and where the porcelain bathroom fixtures were jet-black.†   (source)
  • The Buckner house at night was quiet and dark as a mausoleum.†   (source)
  • It made the trees seem taller, their colors richer, and gave a new sharpness to the lines of the Richmond mausoleum and the iron urns beside its gate.†   (source)
  • It reminded me of an oversized mausoleum, with walls fifty feet high.†   (source)
  • Rows of mausoleums huddled in the shadows like toadstool houses in a fairy story.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to get anywhere close to that horrible black mausoleum, but I knew what I had to do.†   (source)
  • It's a mausoleum," said Jace, directing a flash of torchlight at it.†   (source)
  • A tiny marker read: Mausoleum S. La tomba di San Pietro.†   (source)
  • Enrique peeks over the edge of the mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Bod walked back into the graveyard and up the hill, until he reached the Frobisher mausoleum.†   (source)
  • I went to the Tapachula cemetery and the mausoleum where Enrique had slept.†   (source)
  • He pulled open the door to the mausoleum.†   (source)
  • He and Big Daddy flatten themselves on the mausoleum roof.†   (source)
  • Bod pushed open the mausoleum door, and then locked it again behind them.†   (source)
  • He helped her up the steps and out into the chaos of the Frobisher mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Crosses-large, larger, mausoleums … and statuary everywhere.†   (source)
  • Around them, Max could see the scattered mausoleums and tombs of the dead from ages past.†   (source)
  • It was a mausoleum, a hall dedicated to a nation's saint.†   (source)
  • I didn't even know we had a family mausoleum."†   (source)
  • After that it was as empty and silent as a mausoleum.†   (source)
  • I saw Imogen later at Stephen's funeral, when they put his body into the Herondale mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Every day he visited the mausoleum, hoping for some sign, some miracle.†   (source)
  • The Christians moved it out of the mausoleum.†   (source)
  • You followed — he followed — the man from Macao into the mausoleum.†   (source)
  • "The Lump-lump Family Mausoleum," she says, giving the joke one last push.†   (source)
  • So you used to live in this big mausoleum?†   (source)
  • From the far columns of the mausoleum came a prolonged, shattering scream.†   (source)
  • Your ashes were I placed in the family mausoleum.†   (source)
  • He walked onto the stretch of lawn in front of the white mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Above, at the top of the mausoleum's stairs, the doors had been partially opened.†   (source)
  • He dove to his right, rolling on the ground, scrambling toward the marble columns of the mausoleum.†   (source)
  • A white mausoleum, someone's scaled-down version of the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • Langdon couldn't help but notice that the layout was identical to a fourteen-tomb mausoleum—seven vaults facing seven vaults—with one removed to accommodate the stairs they had just descended.†   (source)
  • The colossal subterranean hollow was filled with crumbling mausoleums, like small houses on the floor of a cave.†   (source)
  • Actually it was like a combination mausoleum and dirty-weekend hideaway — a lot of stonework, king-sized magic-finger beds, bidets in every bathroom — though it was hard to imagine Uncle Pete getting up to anything of much interest in there.†   (source)
  • He pointed to a ridge called Tapa Maranjan and to the dome-shaped mausoleum atop it overlooking the city.†   (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)
  • …anxiety rides up through Marie-Laure's spine, and she leans over a lab table and becomes aware of all the other rooms in the museum around her, the closets full of preserved frogs and eels and worms, the cabinets full of pinned bugs and pressed ferns, the cellars full of bones, and she feels all of a sudden that she works in a mausoleum, that the departments are systematic graveyards, that all these people—the scientists and warders and guards and visitors—occupy galleries of the dead.†   (source)
  • Three days of mourning were proclaimed, flags were flown at half mast in public buildings, and the bells in all the churches tolled without pause until the crypt in the family mausoleum was sealed.†   (source)
  • He heard another crash, and a picture formed in his mind: mausoleum doors smashing open, the corpses of centuries-dead Shadowhunters staggering free, nothing more than skeletons held together by dried tendon, dragging themselves across the white floors of the Silent City with fleshless, bony fingers— Enough!†   (source)
  • Drab as a mausoleum.†   (source)
  • This colossal edifice, located at 1733 Sixteenth Street NW in Washington, D.C., was a replica of a pre-Christian temple—the temple of King Mausolus, the original mausoleum …. a place to be taken after death.†   (source)
  • Ambition's mausoleum, I think of it now It isn't a particularly elegant house, but it was once thought imposing in its way — a merchant's palace, with a curved driveway leading to it, a stumpy Gothic turret, and a wide semi-circular spooled verandah overlooking the two rivers, where tea was served to ladies in flowered hats during the languid summer afternoons at the century's turn.†   (source)
  • Other U.S. companies exhibited toys, weapons, canes, trunks, every conceivable manufactured product—and a large display of burial hardware, including marble and stone monuments, mausoleums, mantels, caskets, coffins, and miscellaneous other tools and furnishings of the undertaker's trade.†   (source)
  • The first provoked her to such irrational anger at her husband's infidelity and her friend's disloyalty that she renounced the custom of visiting the family mausoleum one Sunday each month, for it infuriated her that he, inside his coffin, could not hear the insults she wanted to shout at him: she had a quarrel with a dead man.†   (source)
  • As they ran on through the mausoleums, Langdon felt his legs tiring, noting to his surprise that the group was ascending a steady incline.†   (source)
  • Instead, he has chosen the roof of the mausoleum, a one-room crypt holding the remains of four members of the Conchalitos family, the owners of a local restaurant.†   (source)
  • The fourth: After a day and twelve miles, police caught him sleeping on top of a mausoleum in a graveyard near the depot in Tapachula, Mexico, known as the place where a migrant woman had been raped and, two years before that, another had been raped and stoned to death.†   (source)
  • Bod pulled the jacket up over his head, and clambered up the slippery paths to the top of the hill, to the Frobisher mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Bod saw the chaos on the floor of the Frobisher mausoleum, the fallen coffins with their contents scattered across over the aisle.†   (source)
  • He sought warmth and company in the bustling Bartleby mausoleum, but the Bartleby family—seven generations of them—had no time for him that night.†   (source)
  • He retraced his steps, almost casually, caught her perfume again about fifty feet away, beside a small mausoleum with a closed metal gateway.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and imagined himself fading into the stained stonework of the mausoleum wall, becoming a shadow on the night and nothing more.†   (source)
  • They reached the Frobisher mausoleum.†   (source)
  • At one point he imagined that there was something coming after him, but when he broke out of the top, into the Frobisher mausoleum, and he could breathe the cool dawn air, nothing moved or followed.†   (source)
  • A blue powdering of forget-me-nots and fine, fat yellow primroses punctuated the green of the slope as the two children walked up the hill toward the Frobishers' little mausoleum.†   (source)
  • He pulled down the coffins, one by one, from their shelves, and let them clatter onto the ground, shattering the old wood, spilling their contents onto the mausoleum floor.†   (source)
  • Bod went back into the mausoleum.†   (source)
  • He climbed to the top of the hill, until he was above the whole town, above even the top of the apple tree, above even the steeple of the little chapel, up where the Frobisher mausoleum stood like a rotten tooth.†   (source)
  • The moon had begun to rise by the time Bod reached Mr. Pennyworth's mausoleum, and Thomes Pennyworth (here he lyes in the certainty of the moft glorious refurrection) was already waiting, and was not in the best of moods.†   (source)
  • Bod would tell Scarlett whatever he knew of the inhabitants of the grave or mausoleum or tomb, and she would tell him stories that she had been read or learned, and sometimes she would tell him about the world outside, about cars and buses and television and aeroplanes (Bod had seen them flying high overhead, had thought them loud silver birds, but had never been curious about them until now).†   (source)
  • Bod had stores of food, the kind that lasted, cached in the crypt, and more in some of the chillier tombs and vaults and mausoleums.†   (source)
  • We Visit My Favorite Mausoleum†   (source)
  • Silvery witchlight burned in torches attached to the pillars, lighting the mausoleums that lined each wall to a bright white that was almost painful to look at.†   (source)
  • Also arriving on the special car, fluttering around Mr. Brown, were the solemn lawyers dressed in black who in different times had followed Colonel Aureliano Buendia everywhere, and that led the people to think that the agronomists, hydrologists, topographers, and surveyors, like Mr. Herbert with his captive balloons and his colored butterflies and Mr. Brown with his mausoleum on wheels and his ferocious German shepherd dogs, had something to do with the war.†   (source)
  • A three-o'-clock-in-the-morning arrival, a grotesque-looking glass maze, a Sunday parade, a tall man with a swarm of electricblue pictures itching on his sweaty hide, a few drops of blood falling down through a pavement grille, two frightened boys staring up out of the earth, and himself, alone in mausoleum quiet, nudging the puzzle together.†   (source)
  • "Mausoleums," I say knowingly.†   (source)
  • They were almost through the iron gates at the far end when she spotted a smaller mausoleum, growing like a white toadstool in the shadow of a leafy oak tree.†   (source)
  • That was the mausoleum of the emperor.†   (source)
  • He believed that his three treasured women would have preferred this to the hardscape of a mausoleum, where there would not be the sound of wind-stirred trees on breezy evenings.†   (source)
  • I took a few sheets of paper from my desk and sat down to design the most fitting, most luxurious mausoleum in the world.†   (source)
  • Jaime and the guard quickly slapped the coffin lid back on, placed Rosa in a wheelbarrow, and took her to the place that had been readied for her next to Clara in the salmon-colored mausoleum.†   (source)
  • The grass stretched out ahead of her, green and even, the white mausoleums neat and plain in their orderly TOWS.†   (source)
  • Eminent, the mausoleum word.†   (source)
  • She looked like she'd been stuck in a cool, dark mausoleum for decades, slowly withering into a desiccated husk.†   (source)
  • The cindered schoolyard, the tall thin windows with orange paper pumpkins and black cats stuck onto them for Halloween, the graven lettering over the doors, BOYS and GIRLS, like the inscriptions on mausoleums of the late nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • Clary hadn't been to a graveyard since the night Simon had died, and the memory gave her a bone-deep shiver as she passed along the narrow lanes that threaded among the mausoleums like white ribbon.†   (source)
  • Then I headed upstairs into a mausoleum of mahogany furniture, oriental rugs, oil paintings, marble tiled floors, and crystal chandeliers….†   (source)
  • The exit doors were at the other end of the mausoleum; they would be watched, each tourist studied as he left.†   (source)
  • After I had settled Rosa and Clara in my mausoleum, I felt better because I knew that sooner or later the three of us would be reunited there, along with our other loved ones, like my mother, Nana, and even Ferula, who I hope has forgiven me.†   (source)
  • He had to get out\ If he was trapped and killed in the awed silence of the mausoleum the assassin would roam free and Marie's death would be assured.†   (source)
  • She took her old black tailored suit from the wardrobe, arranged the hairpins in her bun, and went with Alba to bury the Frenchman in the main cemetery, in a municipal grave, which was where the poor ended up, because Senator Trueba refused to make room for him in the salmon-colored mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Instead of one shell, he now had the full complement of nine in addition to a silencer that precluded disturbing the revered dead in a revered mausoleum.†   (source)
  • But Clara had no patience with misfortune, so when they reached the big house on the corner, which was as empty and lugubrious as a mausoleum, she decided that there had been enough weeping and moaning and that the time had come to bring some joy into their lives.†   (source)
  • Conklin rolled on the ground, his eyes on the far columns of the mausoleum, expecting an explosion from the gun that would blow his attacker into the air.†   (source)
  • Work on the mausoleum began soon after Clara's death, but it took almost two years to complete because I kept adding costly new details: tombstones with Gothic lettering in gold, a glass cupola to let the sunlight in, and an ingenious apparatus copied from the Roman fountains that allows a small interior garden, which I planted with roses and camellias, the favorite flowers of the two sisters who had won my heart, to be watered in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • He was within fifteen feet of the mausoleum; the man with the murderous weapon was standing by the left corner column, under the short portico to avoid the rain.†   (source)
  • Bourne heard the shouts and, running, joined the group of French tourists led by a guide whose concentration was riveted on the chaos taking place on the steps of the mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Or had he found d'Anjou, capturing his creator himself and leaving with Echo in the van, convinced that the original Jason Bourne was trapped, a second unlikely corpse in the desecrated mausoleum.†   (source)
  • The beam of light shot over to the side of the white mausoleum; the figure holding the rifle retreated quickly, slipping behind a column no more than twenty feet away from the man holding the flashlight.†   (source)
  • The client was obviously somewhere inside the vast mausoleum and could not know what was happening outside, nor would a mere minion dare follow his superiors up into the conference area.†   (source)
  • The explosions filled the mausoleum, echoing off the marble walls, shattering the crystal glass of the coffin, the bullets embedding themselves in the spastically jerked corpse of Mao Zedong, one penetrating a bloodless forehead, another blowing out an eye.†   (source)
  • After the group had been hastily diverted from the mausoleum to the Great Hall, the bus passed through the northern gate and Jason saw through the window the apoplectic French businessman pleading with the Beijing police to let him pass.†   (source)
  • They were all whispering now, for it was like entering a vast open library or a mausoleum in which the wind lived and over which the stars shone.†   (source)
  • She liked it (he says in the 'Mausoleum Book'), when she was not sure that she liked him.†   (source)
  • It must be a certainty, because it is so elegantly embalmed in this marble mausoleum of language.†   (source)
  • I'm not building mausoleums.†   (source)
  • …and, surrendering even his share of the cargo, he and the son-in-law had parted) who had entered hers and her family's life before she was born with the abruptness of a tornado, done irrevocable and incalculable damage, and gone on—a grim mausoleum air of puritan righteousness and outraged female vindictiveness in which Miss Rosa's childhood (that aged and ancient and timeless absence of youth which consisted of a Cassandra-like listening beyond closed doors, of lurking in dim halls…†   (source)
  • I sought inspiration among gutted palaces and cloisters embowered in weed, derelict churches where the vampire-bats hung in the dome like dry seed-pods and only the ants were ceaselessly astir tunneling in the rich stalls; cities where no road led, and mausoleums where a single, agued family of Indians sheltered from the rains.†   (source)
  • When, many years later, there appeared the first massive volume of his still unfinished work on Byzantine Art, I was touched to find among two pages of polite, preliminary acknowledgments of debt, my own name: "…. to Charles Ryder, with the aid of whose all-seeing eyes I first saw the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia and San Vitale …."†   (source)
  • When the sun was gone, the torch of Hadrian's Mausoleum flared up in its stead, and made glowing red smears on the glass of windows for miles around, on the top stories of buildings high enough to reflect it.†   (source)
  • …feat And she didn't tell you in so many words because she was still keeping that secret for the sake of the man who had been her father too as well as for the sake of the family which no longer existed, whose here-to-fore inviolate and rotten mausoleum she still guarded; —didn't tell you in so many words anymore than she told you in so many words how she had been in the room that day when they brought Bon's body in and Judith took from his pocket the metal case she had given him with…†   (source)
  • That this old dame that grew up in a household like an overpopulated mausoleum, with no call or claim on her time but the hating of her father and aunt and her sister's husband in peace and comfort and waiting for the day when they would prove not only to themselves but to everybody else that she had been right: so one night the aunt slid down the rainpipe with a horse trader and she was right about the aunt so that fixed that: then her father nailed himself up in the attic to keep…†   (source)
  • …Society for Architectural Enlightenment of the U.S.A.; Guy Francon, knight of the Legion of Honor of France, decorated by the governments of Great Britain, Belgium, Monaco and Siam; Guy Francon, Stanton's greatest alumnus, who had designed the famous Frink National Bank Building of New York City, on the top of which, twenty-five floors above the pavements, there burned in a miniature replica of the Hadrian Mausoleum a wind-blown torch made of glass and the best General Electric bulbs.†   (source)
  • She invited him out of the mausoleum of a parlour into the kitchen.†   (source)
  • It was like a message from the night of the grave; for this man's body had become his mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Now, as Archer rang the bell, the long tinkle seemed to echo through a mausoleum; and the surprise of the butler who at length responded to the call was as great as though he had been summoned from his final sleep.†   (source)
  • She had proved an excellent wife to one of our most tedious ambassadors, and having buried her husband properly in a marble mausoleum, which she had herself designed, and married off her daughters to some rich, rather elderly men, she devoted herself now to the pleasures of French fiction, French cookery, and French esprit when she could get it.†   (source)
  • The Gryces were from Albany, and but lately introduced to the metropolis, where the mother and son had come, after old Jefferson Gryce's death, to take possession of his house in Madison Avenue—an appalling house, all brown stone without and black walnut within, with the Gryce library in a fire-proof annex that looked like a mausoleum.†   (source)
  • At last, after having examined some hundred designs, having ordered an estimate and made another journey to Rouen, Charles decided in favour of a mausoleum, which on the two principal sides was to have a "spirit bearing an extinguished torch."†   (source)
  • When the procession stopped, this shadow was recognized as Morrel, who, with his coat buttoned up to his throat, his face livid, and convulsively crushing his hat between his fingers, leaned against a tree, situated on an elevation commanding the mausoleum, so that none of the funeral details could escape his observation.†   (source)
  • However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.†   (source)
  • We varied the legal character of these proceedings by going to see some perspiring Wax-work, in Fleet Street (melted, I should hope, these twenty years); and by visiting Miss Linwood's Exhibition, which I remember as a Mausoleum of needlework, favourable to self-examination and repentance; and by inspecting the Tower of London; and going to the top of St. Paul's.†   (source)
  • There are noble mausoleums rooted for centuries in retired glades of parks among the growing timber and the fern, which perhaps hold fewer noble secrets than walk abroad among men, shut up in the breast of Mr. Tulkinghorn.†   (source)
  • A little more, in truth, and it will be all extinguished for Sir Leicester; and the damp door in the mausoleum which shuts so tight, and looks so obdurate, will have opened and received him.†   (source)
  • "This is a magnificent habitation," said Beauchamp, looking towards the mausoleum; "a summer and winter palace.†   (source)
  • When they come to a certain spot before the mausoleum-door, Sir Leicester's accustomed horse stops of his own accord, and Sir Leicester, pulling off his hat, is still for a few moments before they ride away.†   (source)
  • It is known for certain that the handsome Lady Dedlock lies in the mausoleum in the park, where the trees arch darkly overhead, and the owl is heard at night making the woods ring; but whence she was brought home to be laid among the echoes of that solitary place, or how she died, is all mystery.†   (source)
  • Some of her old friends, principally to be found among the peachy-cheeked charmers with the skeleton throats, did once occasionally say, as they toyed in a ghastly manner with large fans—like charmers reduced to flirting with grim death, after losing all their other beaux—did once occasionally say, when the world assembled together, that they wondered the ashes of the Dedlocks, entombed in the mausoleum, never rose against the profanation of her company.†   (source)
  • It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt thatyou will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs nobetter than it fitted his or his father's.†   (source)
  • He glanced behind him to where a face with dark thinking eyes followed towards the cardinal's mausoleum.†   (source)
  • [2] Of bronze, that came from the Mausoleum of Hadrian, and in Dante's time stood in the fore-court of St. Peter's, and is now in the Vatican gardens.†   (source)
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