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Many of these new Towers of Babel, and Ivory Mausoleums to benefactor's fame, are filled with decorative wallpaper, disposable pop, and self-exhibitionist decadence.
July 2008 2008
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Mausoleums and crypts, with faded names that I knew by heart, rose majestically from the earth.
The Hollow Jessica Verday 2009
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Mausoleums and crypts, with faded names that I knew by heart, rose majestically from the earth.
The Hollow Jessica Verday 2009
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Mausoleums and tombstones were removed and disposed of down a convenient ravine at Land's End.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Mausoleums streamed past like the town-houses of the dead.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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Mausoleums streamed past like the town-houses of the dead.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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Mausoleums were nice, cool, dark places where there was never any sun or heat, and never any reason to wake up.
The Impossibles Laurence M. Janifer 1967
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Mausoleums were nice, cool, dark places where there was never any sun or heat, and never any reason to wake up.
Out Like a Light Randall Garrett 1957
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Mausoleums have been built in some places, and it is said that here are interred the nobles and kings; but it would seem that there are only empty coffins, or the bodies of common natives substituted for those of the personages in whose honor these monuments have been raised.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865
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"Mausoleums went out of fashion after World War II," said Ms. Evert, co-curator of the exhibition.
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