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Sepulchral   Listen
adjective
Sepulchral  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
2.
Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; said of sound, especially of the voice. "This exaggerated dulling of the voice... giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone."





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"Sepulchral" Quotes from Famous Books



... Afraid I'm most abominably late—had some difficulty in getting here—such a fog, don't you know! It's really uncommonly good of you to let me come and see your antiquities like this. If I am not mistaken, you have got together a collection of sepulchral objects worth coming any distance to study. [He glances round the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 • Various
... Grand in robes of skin and bark, What sepulchral mysteries, What weird funeral-rites, were his? What sharp wail, what drear lament, Back scared ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various
... sepulchral mound she had raised there yet lay the cross of boughs, the last work of him who slept beneath. Helga lifted up the cross, in pursuance of a sudden thought that came upon her. She planted it upon the burial mound, over the ...
— What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen
... find its door as firmly closed as a door can be. He knocked on it, but a sepulchral echo was the ...
— Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales • Henry Rider Haggard
... Providence, which gives wine and oil, had blessed us with that tolerant spirit which makes the countenance more pleasant and the heart more glad than these can do; if our Statute Book had never been defiled with such infamous laws, the sepulchral Spencer Perceval would have been hauled through the dirtiest horse-pond in Hampstead, had he ventured to propose them. But now persecution is good, because it exists; every law which originated in ignorance and malice, and gratifies the passions from whence it sprang, we call ...
— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith


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