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  • The exterior of the Sepulchre is also covered with gold and silver lamps, burnt by different Christians.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • You know, the bell in Sepulchre Church used to toll every Monday morning in London from five minutes to eight until eight for the people who were to be executed at Newgate at that hour, and there were always some to be executed; sometimes ten or twelve or more, and many of them not much more than boys and girls, for some minor petty larceny -- punished by capital punishment.

    Thomas Hardy, The Novelist 1924

  • That absurd epic, which originated in 1096, declared its aim to be the deliverance of the lands of the Holy Sepulchre from the Turks.

    Élie Ducommun - Nobel Lecture 1902

  • Procession to the Pauline Chapel where the Sepulchre is Placed

    Rare Images of Holy Thursday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel and a Description of the Papal Ceremonies of those Times 2009

  • I mean, with the exception really of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is the church where they say Jesus 'tomb was in Jerusalem, there's no extra security.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2006 2006

  • Just at the back of the Sepulchre is the Chapel of the Copts.

    My life and work, 1885

  • Holy Sepulchre, which is claimed, but without sufficient reason, to be upon the site of Calvary, is "a collection of chapels and altars of different ages and a unique museum of religious curiosities from Adam to Christ."

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • That the cowled liars call the Sepulchre never held the body of Christ.

    The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

  • All this is startling, but the truth is, that the city having gathered round the Sepulchre, which is the main point of interest, has crept northward, and thus in great measure are occasioned the many geographical surprises that puzzle the “Bible Christian.”

    Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850

  • Among these the most remarkable is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is built on the lower part of the sloping hill distinguished by the name of Acre, near the place where it is joined to Mount Moriah.

    Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814

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