Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.    From LearnThat.org.  [William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet.]

sepulchral inscriptions.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : sepulchral tones.    From Dictionary.com. 

'I am the census-taker Time,' I boomed in sepulchral tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local Colour] Reference

'She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before,' quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize] Reference

You understand, my lord, I said this in hollow tones -- in what I may almost term a sepulchral voice. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book About Lawyers] Reference

After a time he ejaculated, in a sepulchral tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

A good sepulchral groan's the thing for popularity!.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

A cast is preserved in the sepulchral basement at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

These cases were deposited in the sepulchral chambers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

"Are we all here?" said Sally May in a sepulchral whisper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy of York Hill] Reference

A few seem to have been expressly for sepulchral purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

"Oh, did he?" remarked the policeman in a sepulchral voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference

Then the sepulchral green light burst out in its funnel-like volume.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

"I have lost another pound," said the ex-fat girl, in a sepulchral voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

At length Tommy spoke, in sepulchral tones, with his eyes still on the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

Slowly, word by word, with weak sepulchral voice, she told the dreadful story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

When he is wound up he will break out in a cold sepulchral tone with, firstly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference

In many cases this background assumes the form of the ordinary sepulchral stele.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

"Out of the everywhere," he said in a hollow, sepulchral voice, "into the here.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Supermind] Reference

Just near the door, I could not forbear looking around the deep sepulchral gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore soothingly sepulchral silence and calm reigned.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

"De angel of de Lord," replied Mark, in a somewhat suppressed and sepulchral voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

A pyramid in the neighbouring village of Couhard was probably a sepulchral monument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

The chittering whispers and sepulchral resonances are your own dissonant reverberations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astigmatism Of The Human Genome Project] Reference

"Suppose," said Mollie, in a sepulchral voice, "he should come back before the boys do?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference

His sepulchral monument is shown in one of the chapels near the door in the cathedral at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

The first scene of the second act represents the sepulchral crypt of the Lusignan family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The font stands on a sepulchral slab, which has been ruthlessly cut into for the purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

And bury my misery, 'he added in a tone so hollow and sepulchral that you or I had laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

"Do you hear my clanking chain?" she asked in what she fondly believed to be "sepulchral tones.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

"The vase -- and, of course, the question papers -- was gone," said the lady, in a sepulchral tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

"Not only 14 new palaces, there are -- many more across Iraq," he declared in his sepulchral monotone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palace Intrigue] Reference

He's the one actor to attempt an impersonation, and he gets the sepulchral Germanic rumble of the man to a T.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference

There are moments when Newton's grimacing, sepulchral-voiced performance unfortunately invokes "" The Exorcist. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghosts Of Slavery] Reference

At last, they were compelled to permit that musical box to remain within the sepulchral recesses of the epigastrium of young Chubb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference

Inspired by the sepulchral song that opens Tony Scott's "The Hunger" (1983), its title underlines the myth's firm grip on pop culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bite in the Darkness] Reference

Their voices were hollow and sepulchral, and the ministering angel who had visited them witnessed this moving spectacle not without tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference