For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. From Wordnik.com. [The King of Weird] Reference
So, those shuttered shops, those haunted dealerships, and those concrete hexaliths become mausolea for a restless, ever-drivin 'nation. From Wordnik.com. [Roadside(memorial)america.com] Reference
This is particularly true of the tomb mosques, situated in the mausolea on the east side of the city, and known as the Tombs of the Khalifs. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
They destroyed the mausolea and monumental tombs in the cemeteries, which they considered to be polytheistic, and desecrated the Prophet's tomb. From Wordnik.com. [d. Arabia] Reference
This necropolis contains eight mausolea belonging to Northern Song emperors, as well as the tombs of 22 empresses buried to the northwest of their husbands. From Wordnik.com. [Off With the Heads] Reference
After the mausolea of Augustus, and Adrian, which I have already mentioned, the most remarkable antient sepulchres at Rome, are those of Caius Cestius, and Cecilia Metella. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Tombstones and more tombstones — not the imposing mausolea and sepulchra of the rich and noble which flanked every arterial road out of the city, but the gravestones of simpler souls. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
So then maybe they ARE mausolea of martyred pilgrims: shuttered malls as cryptoriums, grain elevators as ossuaries, and left-over wreckage as coffins parked in disused auto dealerships. From Wordnik.com. [Roadside(memorial)america.com] Reference
I was brought up in and around non-conformist places of worship like this, gaslit Evangelical mausolea in terraced city backstreets, bare-boarded Strict Baptism in hidden Chiltern villages. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Talk] Reference
Imperial complexes which combined palaces and circuses, and sometimes mausolea, were built in or near most imperial capitalsRome, Milan, Thessalonica, Antioch, and Trier, while Diocletian built a grand palace at Salona (Split) on the Dalmatian coast. From Wordnik.com. [5. The Later Empire, 284-527 C.E] Reference
There are three of these mausolea at a short distance from each other. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference
Takes up a lot less real estate than those Catholic mausoleums (mausolea?). From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
The richness and magnificence of papal mausolea increased in proportion to the decline in taste. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
Between the city and these mysterious mausolea, stands alone, amid gardens, the red granite temple of Pthah and. From Wordnik.com. [The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage] Reference
In looking at these humble graves we cannot help comparing them with the great mausolea of contemporary emperors. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
Perhaps, however, they were mausolea, erected, like the Pyramids of Egypt, to the memory of distinguished chiefs. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.] Reference
The sprawling cemetery near the mosque was fascinating, with several tiled mausolea and some simpler tiled graves as well. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The rocks, through which the river of Wady Mousa has worked its extraordinary passage, and in which all the tombs and mausolea. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference
It is said to have been suggested by an earlier and more harmless custom of placing straw and wooden effigies in the mausolea of the great. From Wordnik.com. [Religions of Ancient China] Reference
Although the cemetery was mostly occupied by military men, the high-roads which cross it were lined with mausolea belonging to historical families. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
They won't plant my brotherinlaw until spring, scads of mausolea being utilized for the purpose until the ground thaws adequately to take the gravedigger's spade. From Wordnik.com. [Neanderpundit] Reference
The rich mausolea of this cemetery added to the dignity of the underground burial-place that was, like the others of its kind, no longer used for burials after 410. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Apart from the sepulchral slabs in the Catacombs, sarcophagi ornamented with portraits, and scattered examples of mausolea, tombs may be divided into four special classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Like the mausolea of Metella, on the Appian Way, and Hadrian, on the right bank of the Tiber, it was subsequently converted into a stronghold, and occupied by the Colonnas. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
I did like the Shah-i-Zinda, an avenue of mausolea of close friends and relatives of Timur -- even though many say that it's now less interesting since its 2005 restoration. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
In addition to this fine building there are at Roccella the ruins of two smaller late Roman churches, mausolea, and endless foundations of buildings which must have formed very extensive suburbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference
The mausolea of LE BRUN, LULLI, and JÉROME BIGNON, the honour, the love, and the example of his age, terminate the series of monuments of that epoch, still more remarkable for its literati than its artists. From Wordnik.com. [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference
The veneration of ancestors is universal; there are some mausolea (for instance at Ahar near Udeypore) and the notion that in life the soul can reside elsewhere than in the body is an occasional popular superstition. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3] Reference
In these eventful times, LENOIR, the Conservator of the rising museum, collected, through his own indefatigable exertions, a considerable number of mausolea, statues, bas-reliefs, and busts of every age and description. From Wordnik.com. [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference
They considered in the ornaments the character and purpose of the edifice; and they would have been ashamed to have thought it possible that their palaces might be mistaken for mausolea, or their tombs for the mansions of festivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself] Reference
(mausolea?). From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
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