Examples
“Then, plainly visible on both sides of the highway, the great age of the world seems to be revealed with sudden poignancy: we pass the famous burial mounds, the largest prehistoric cemetery in the world, a virtual city of dead people dating back to 3000 B.C. Over 150,000 people were buried here in a vast field of mudpie-like mounds called tumuli, stretching far as the eye can see.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
“Graves are overlooked by the brown and gold of bracken and gorse, extending downhill towards emerald green fields from the hilltop sites of prehistoric tumuli, hut circles and quoits (chamber tombs).”
“Cloud shadows scud across the splashy and drier ground where prehistoric circles, tumuli, cairns and reaves subside into the rough vegetation and where attention focuses on the few gnarled and wind-pruned hawthorns.”
“My sentence here, and it's one that you can sort of get the meaning of, but it was about the sage brush turning thriving homes in tumuli T-U-M-U-L-I.”
“But tumuli is the plural of tumulus, and those are those, you know, if you go to Ireland, for example, you see those humps, those mounds, the burial mounds or Indian mounds - usually burial sites - those are tumuli.”
“After high school, Rich spent a year at a boarding school in Marlborough, England, just north of Stonehenge, because the school had a 10-inch refracting telescope—a larger version of the kind Galileo had used to discover that the Milky Way was full of stars—that was out on the downs, surrounded by Neolithic tumuli.”
“See also Drangagil Neskaupstaður's disaster tumuli.”
“(An amphitheater with crescentic tumuli as seatings, by Hargreaves Associates.)”
“Much of what they find on the way is marked on the map, whose symbols for roads, railways, telephone boxes, tumuli, and so on and on, turn to reality along the way.”
“These terracotta figurines were placed around the tumuli of Japanese emperors between the third and seventh centuries A.D.”
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Sartor Resartus / Irving's The Sketch...
anglo-dandiacal, egregious, somnambulism, clothes, adventitous, atrabiliar, mephitic, psychical, circumambient, tumuli, encomiums, wesand and 27 more...
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Words I didn't know
Here I reveal my profound ignorance and admit that I had to look up the following words.
commensurate, deportment, amanuensis, execrable, tumuli, atrapos, rime, freshet
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frogapplause mounds of earth and stone raised over graves Apr 18, 2009