sarcophagi

• They published engravings of handsome sarcophagi, and gave similar unmistakable hints that they considered the interment of Mrs. Caudle's corpse a long time overdue; while "Joe Miller the Younger" represented him as "The Modern Paganini playing on One String: 'Caudle--without variations.'" —  The History of "Punch"
• They are in the shape of tombs or sarcophagi, the form generally adopted for altars in the sixteenth century. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
• Each of the sarcophagi was broken into a hundred pieces; the mosaics of the walls and ceiling had been wrenched from their sockets, cube by cube, the marble incrustations torn off, the altar dismantled, the bones dispersed When did this wholesale destruction take place? —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• They are plain sarcophagi, are usually covered with black velvet palls, very simple and unostentatious. —  Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
• The four figures on the top of the sarcophagi, the four figures on the ground which are the rivers, the two captains and Our Lady, who is to be placed upon the tomb at the head of the chapel; these are the figures I mean to carve with my own hand, and of them I have begun six; and I have sufficient spirit to finish them in a convenient time, and bring partially forward the others which are not of so much importance." —  Michael Angelo Buonarroti

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