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1. The sepulchral tone answered critically, clearly annoyed
2. ” The sepulchral tone answered
3. Conan's hair rose up and he grasped his sword, but the figure spoke in sepulchral tones
4. Through all this danced the skeleton of Sunbeam, touching things with her sepulchral finger and turning them into ashes
5. The light, warm breeze working in close conjunction with the heavy fog that blocked out much of the sun successfully cast a somber and sepulchral tone over the lovely grounds and increased the tenseness of the environment
6. “Inspector La Mont!” he said again, his voice echoing through the sepulchral lobby, as he waved to the individual he addressed
7. Their muffled footsteps and their heavy breathing were the only sounds that gave any indication of life in the sepulchral silence that filled the hallway, though an occasional roar of thunder shook the building and sent the light dancing at unnatural angles before them as they progressed towards the fateful suite in which Charles had earlier been completely secured
8. The sound quickly subsided, returning the sepulchral silence to the suite, and once again created tension that hung heavy in the air in anticipation of what was to eventually unfold here in this dramatic tomb
9. gave his once-warm and inviting home a cold, sepulchral feeling was
10. glass door shut behind him and returning to the sepulchral concourse
11. approaching hoofbeats, but only his breathing broke the sepulchral
12. cast an eerie, sepulchral glow throughout
13. holes in the walls, it gave a sepulchral feel to the room
14. room that had a sepulchral feel, the small group of councilmen and
15. "Woman," interrupted a sepulchral voice, "what have I to do with thee?"--Still he grasped her hand, muttering a curse
16. "Who talks of God and despair at the same time?" said a voice that seemed to come from beneath the earth, and, deadened by the distance, sounded hollow and sepulchral in the young man's ears
17. But he had not gone a step when he felt himself seized by the arm and heard two horrid, sepulchral voices saying to him:
18. As the dying cadence of his strains was falling on the ears of the latter, he started aside at hearing them repeated behind him, in a voice half human and half sepulchral
19. The sepulchral hue over the whole scene
20. "Whatever may happen, Valentine, do not be alarmed; though you suffer; though you lose sight, hearing, consciousness, fear nothing; though you should awake and be ignorant where you are, still do not fear; even though you should find yourself in a sepulchral vault or coffin
21. Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note
22. In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very month when Napoleon was crowned
23. The cavities of night, things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of trees, long handfuls of
24. However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the same severity in other convents
25. She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:—
26. As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:—
27. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was pursuing him
28. This group of victim and executioner was illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul
29. As soon as Enjolras folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral solemnity
30. It was the sepulchral moment which follows midnight
31. Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables:
32. "Thou knowest best," was the sepulchral reply, "the seven hundred and seventy-seventh wouldn't be too much, would it?—'where moth and rust do corrupt, but LAY—'"
33. Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab
34. Whether this was intended for a chapter-house, or for a sepulchral chapel in imitation of the Holy Sepulcre, is an undecided point
35. Conze 56 publishes a sepulchral monument which seems to him to mark the first stage of growth
36. The most interesting is found in the design and execution of sepulchral monuments
37. He finds what he thinks the oldest representation of sepulchral ornament in a black-figured vase of the so-called "prothesis" class
38. 59 Here are two women weeping about a sepulchral mound on which rests an amphora of like form to the one that bears the scene
39. He maintains then that such a prothesis vase was the first sepulchral monument, that this was later replaced by a vase of the same description in marble, of course on account of the fragile nature of pottery
40. A very evident connecting-link between these urns and the later sepulchral stele appears in monuments which show just such urns projected in relief upon a plane surface
41. In many cases this background assumes the form of the ordinary sepulchral stele
42. The transition to the more common form of sepulchral monument has now become easy; but the characteristics which point to its genesis in the funeral vase are still prominent
43. Near the stûpa is the site of the ancient village and fort; long ridges of earth, in form of a square, mark the position of the walls; within these, various articles have been turned up, large bricks, broken sepulchral urns and grain jars, together with beads of various material and Buddhist lead coins, both round and square; they bear the lion and the dugoba, emblems of the Andhra dynasty