Sentence examples for double tomb from inspiring English sources

Dalí had often said he wanted to be buried, with his face covered, alongside Gala in the crypt of the Púbol Castle and had built an elaborate double tomb there.

A lost play by Aeschylus, the "Myrmidons," assumes as much, as does Plato's dialogue "Symposium" (in which characters argued over, basically, who was on top); when Alexander the Great and his lover, Hephaistion, visited Troy en route to conquering Persia, they are said to have sacrificed at the double tomb of Achilles and Patroclus.

Nine graves can be assigned to the early period, including 3 from a masonic tomb which includes a double grave where the bodies were positioned on top of one another (USD 397 and 408).

Rising to the challenge, European Egyptologists became crypt-breakers, in the double sense of tomb penetration and the decoding of glyphs.

Matthew Lusk's "Mausoleum" doubles as a house and a tomb, replete with an Adirondack chair and cryptic messages from Martha Stewart.

The raised marble slab, the tomb of an 18th-century rabbi, also doubles as a dining table.

Mr. Copeland planned for his death by building a family tomb for 14 caskets, with four fluted columns and a bronze double door.

That's more than the budget of the first Tomb Raider movie, which came out the same summer (and made substantially more money, over double its costs).

With the notable exception of Tomb Raider, which has grossing $300m globally, others – from Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Super Mario Bros. to Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat and Wing Commander – are best forgotten.

At the autumnal Double Ninth Festival (on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month), male elders gathered at their ancestors' tombs and slaughtered a pig as a symbol of that forebear's ongoing provision for his descendants.

His tomb was flamboyant, as tombs go.