burial-vault

Under their instruction, the grave was dug and a cement burial-vault was built here, on the slope of the hill.

THE HOUSE OF HAPPY WALLS 2003

The urn with the ashes of this great man was put into the burial-vault.

THE HOUSE OF HAPPY WALLS 2003

I was in the chapel over the burial-vault of my race.

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

France, her second son lay fathoms deep in the North Sea, with the hulk of a broken battleship for a burial-vault; and now the grand-daughter was standing here in the limelight, bowing her thanks for the patronage and favour meted out to her by this cosmopolitan company, with its lavish sprinkling of the uniforms of an alien army.

When William Came 1870-1916 Saki 1893

Anon, it clears the stage of each and any mortal shred that thinks itself so potent to its day; and at and after which, (with precious, golden exceptions once or twice in a century,) all that relates to sir potency is flung to moulder in a burial-vault, and no one bothers himself the least bit about it afterward.

Democratic Vistas: Paras. 30–59. Collect 1892

I was in the chapel over the burial-vault of my race.

Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women George MacDonald 1864

But as the nuns have no private entrance to their burial-vault, and have been by law prohibited from making one; as they are obliged to pass through the public door of the church and walk up the nave, they are at the mercy of any stranger who can gain admittance to the building, and who may be led by idle curiosity to watch the ceremonies which accompany their midnight service for the dead.

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Wilkie Collins 1856

Anon, it clears the stage of each and any mortal shred that thinks itself so potent to its day; and at and after which, (with precious, golden exceptions once or twice in a century,) all that relates to sir potency is flung to moulder in a burial-vault, and no one bothers himself the least bit about it afterward.

Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Among other places, he showed him the spot where he proposed to erect a new family burial-vault.

Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852

The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole creation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day -- but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatural.

Andersen's Fairy Tales 1840