Before the amazed eyes of the congregation, a cascade of white petals descends from the coffered ceiling, blanketing the hypogeum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore] Reference

To be the steward of an entire hypogeum, and particularly, as I was in my youth, to be steward of my hypogeum Apotropaic in the time of Father Inire, requires the most unremitting effort; one has hardly a watch in which to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

In the Roman necropolis, along the Kairwan road, several interesting discoveries were made, among them a hypogeum containing several frescoes in fair preservation, containing curious figures and inscriptions, and also some inscriptions on marble or stucco.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Tourists walk in the Colosseum near the hypogeum underground on October 14, 2010, in Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

It is in this room that the remarkable nature of the work in the hypogeum is most apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference

Here and there were separate monuments, and in the centre was the entrance to the hypogeum itself, or crypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

In two of the largest chambers in the hypogeum the roof and walls are still decorated with designs in red paint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference

Hitherto I had lived in a hypogeum, lighted by smoky lamps; now I was going to see the sun and the light of day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Youth]

The substructure - or hypogeum - was a staging area akin to the back stage of a theater, with a few distinctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Travel] Reference

Colosseum in Rome overlooking the hypogeum, which visitors can for the first time tour, from the newly opened third level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The finest instance of this is the Halsaflieni hypogeum in Malta, where the solid rock is hewn out with infinite care to imitate the form and even the details of surface building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference

Nor has he failed in his intention, for, as one moves from room to room in the hypogeum, one certainly has the feeling of being in a building constructed of separate blocks and not merely cut in the solid rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference

But it was evident that no very large number of persons could find room in the hypogeum; hence Vinicius divined without difficulty that the ceremony would take place outside, in the space where a very numerous throng was soon gathered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

It has therefore been suggested that the hypogeum was meant for a burial place, and that the central chamber was the chapel or sanctuary in which the funeral rites were performed, after which the body was buried in one of the smaller rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference

The principle of the Chaldæan sepulchre was similar to that of the Egyptian mastaba or hypogeum; it had to supply the same wants and to render the same services; the task imposed upon the architect was in each case governed by the same general idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference

His edifice of pride must crumble to dust, when both corner-stone and hypogeum are based upon the contingencies of expectation; and the funeral-stone and the elm of his family mausoleum will vanish, in course of time, before the axe and plough of a new proprietor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawks of Hawk-hollow] Reference

You can then descend into the hypogeum, or underground tunnels and rooms - which were originally excavated in the 19th century, and where the gladiators would have readied themselves for the fights - and walk through the Porta Libitina, the exit arch from the arena for the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

This work forcibly recalls the work of the megalithic builders in the hypogeum of Halsaflieni in Malta (see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference

Of the twenty-two kings of Judah who reigned at Jerusalem from 1048 to 590 B.C. eleven, or exactly one half, were buried in one hypogeum in the "city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

"An old hypogeum between the Viæ Salaria and Nomentana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

"See," said Evandale to Rumphius, "that human footprint which is directed towards the exit from the hypogeum!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference

We may try, if it pleases your lordship, to clear away a buried sphinx or a shrine, or to open up a hypogeum. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference

Colosseum in Rome from the newly opened hypogeum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Prithee, quoth Panurge, take heed thyself, dear frater, lest, till monks have leave to marry, thou weddest something thou dostn't like, as some cat-o'-nine-tails or the quartan ague; if thou dost, may I never come safe and sound out of this hypogeum, this subterranean cave, if I don't tup and ram that disease merely for the sake of making thee a cornuted, corniferous property; otherwise I fancy the quartan ague is but an indifferent bedfellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

Prithee, quoth Panurge, take heed thyself, dear frater, lest, till monks have leave to marry, thou weddest something thou dostn’t like, as some cat-o’-nine-tails or the quartan ague; if thou dost, may I never come safe and sound out of this hypogeum, this subterranean cave, if I don’t tup and ram that disease merely for the sake of making thee a cornuted, corniferous property; otherwise I fancy the quartan ague is but an indifferent bedfellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference