The term catacomb was applied to these subterranean cemeteries at a much later period. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Catacumbas, whence the term catacomb, a word seemingly of uncertain origin (Northcote and Brownlow, I, 262-63). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Collins is also unconvinced by Hawass's explanation of what he calls the "catacomb". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The two lower corridors of this catacomb have tombs or. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The entire catacomb was illuminated by the Burning Man. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars My Destination]
Obama's is a sort of catacomb election campaign, isn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Fifteen feet above the ground, this floor had a catacomb feel. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
This fossil body was not the only one in this immense catacomb. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
A part of this great catacomb is as early as the second century. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
There is no record from what catacomb this sepulchral slab was taken. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
The plan of the catacomb of S. Priscilla is a good illustration of this. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Obama leading in Virginia; John McCain must be spinning in his catacomb. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Just Edging McCain In Virginia] Reference
I swear to you I did not know his name when I went in search of you at the catacomb. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Let us leave the catacomb, if you wish, and you can repeat your story to me up above. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We dug into four sepulchres, including the sunken catacomb and the (southern) inscribed tomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
They dismounted, and the catacomb trotted off, glad to get a chance to comb through new territory. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
Get this: behind the barrels are a catacomb of caves that they used to store wine in the 19th century. From Wordnik.com. [that's a 1976 German syrah] Reference
The burial-chapels of the fourth century commonly found over a catacomb probably replace earlier tombs. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Here we were, now wetter than ever, cold as Polar bears, sitting in this hygroscopic catacomb at about 2 a.m. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
Now lost or destroyed, it was identified as existing in a catacomb where the apostle is supposed to have baptized. From Wordnik.com. [The Apostle Peter in Rome?] Reference
Tomb 4 differed from the others in that it consisted of a series of catacomb-like rooms -- one chamber above another. From Wordnik.com. [Oasis of the Dead] Reference
But the expedition nearly ends in Egypt when the floor of a tomb De Prorok is investigating collapses into a catacomb. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Tales of the Count, Battle of the Bones, Mummy Matters] Reference
This portion of the catacomb is illuminated on certain occasions, and is employed to excite the devotion of the faithful. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The catacomb made excellent time, perhaps because of its many springy legs, and soon they hove into view of Castle Roogna. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
The convent under which the burial chambers are located sits atop the vast catacomb complex of San Pietro and Marcellinus. From Wordnik.com. [Martyrs or Imperial Guard?] Reference
The chapels also vary in size, but none of them would hold more than fifty people; those in the present catacomb are small. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
As to the novel's title, there is a plethora of c-words: codes, calcium, catacomb, cyst, carbon ( "the basic element of life"). From Wordnik.com. [The Fear of a Failure to Communicate] Reference
If the adjoining field belonged to the same family, the catacomb might be extended as far as the family property itself extended. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Four guards were stationed in each long gallery, open, indeed, at each end, but awfully silent, as if it were the passage of a catacomb. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Amid a solitude like that of a catacomb the hours ran their course; the day grew old, and eventide replaced the waning flush in the west. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
There is in general, at present, no communication between one catacomb and another; each occupies a separate hill or rising ground in the. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
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