All 19 Uses
mausoleum
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The Graveyard Book
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- 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).†
p. 44.3
- 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.†
p. 50.1
- Bod led Scarlett carefully up the steps, through the hill, into the jutting black masonry of the Frobisher mausoleum.†
p. 56.9 *
- Bod pushed open the mausoleum door, and then locked it again behind them.†
p. 57.1
- 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.†
p. 104.9
- 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.†
p. 106.1
- 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.†
p. 114.9
- 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.†
p. 116.6
- Bod pulled the jacket up over his head, and clambered up the slippery paths to the top of the hill, to the Frobisher mausoleum.†
p. 140.5
- 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.†
p. 146.8
- 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.†
p. 229.1
- Bod walked back into the graveyard and up the hill, until he reached the Frobisher mausoleum.†
p. 237.3
- They reached the Frobisher mausoleum.†
p. 263.9
- He pulled open the door to the mausoleum.†
p. 264.2
- He retraced his steps, almost casually, caught her perfume again about fifty feet away, beside a small mausoleum with a closed metal gateway.†
p. 275.6
- 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.†
p. 275.8
- Bod saw the chaos on the floor of the Frobisher mausoleum, the fallen coffins with their contents scattered across over the aisle.†
p. 277.1
- He helped her up the steps and out into the chaos of the Frobisher mausoleum.†
p. 286.1
- Bod went back into the mausoleum.†
p. 288.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(mausoleum) an impressive building in which one or more corpses are entombed
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, a mausoleum can reference any large, depressing room or building.