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sarcophagus
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    A second sarcophagus had been placed beside the woman, depicting a man.†  (source)
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    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)
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    By the afternoon of day two, the snow was three feet deep and my little metal but began to feel less like a refuge than a sarcophagus.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Only, instead of sarcophagi bearing the likenesses of saints, receding into the far reaches of the chamber were rows of racks laden with bottles of wine.†  (source)
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    She crossed her hands over her chest like a mummy in a sarcophagus.†  (source)
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    The ancients decorated their sarcophagi with symbols of life and procreation, some of them even obscene.†  (source)
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    The spits were like coughs in shadows as both men fell into the sarcophagus.†  (source)
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    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)
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    It was the captain who suggested the empty sarcophagus for Spender.†  (source)
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    Are they going to decorate their 'Hall of Life' with obscene symbols, like the ones found on many ancient sarcophagi?†  (source)
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    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)
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    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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