cinereal

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"Why, the ashes of the dead were collected and preserved in these cinereal urns; and what are ashes but earthy salts?

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  • "Why, the ashes of the dead were collected and preserved in these cinereal urns; and what are ashes but earthy salts? —  Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
  • His cinereal ashes may lie beneath the cypresses, near the dust of the —  Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
  • Burnett to restrain the roving eyes of the congregation and make gallants better attend to their devotions; all these, in addition to the memorial slabs and tablets, and weeping angels over cinereal urns, tend to give the church that air of ugliness and comfort which the modern churchman detests. —  She and I, Volume 1
 

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