Sentence examples for for a tomb from inspiring English sources

There are six Burgundian "Weepers", which were created for a tomb, and Donatello's lamentation over the dead Christ.

"We weren't looking for a tomb there because, in usual practice, royal tombs are associated with pyramids, not palaces".

Among his artworks was a contract for a tomb design by the artist Domenico Aimo da Varignano.

For a tomb for Pope Julius II, according to the professor, Michelangelo got the rough equivalent, by one calculation, of more than $10 million over time, even though he did not come close to completing the project.

When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction.

The tomb is grander than the original proposal for a simple floor slab, which many, including the Richard III Society, felt was inappropriate for the tomb of a former king, but simpler than a design suggested last year for a tomb with a large rose motif.

"Euro bonds, for which a tomb without flowers was being prepared, are not named" but will be raised again in March, he said.

Construction plans for the library included a tomb for the eventual use of Reagan and his wife.

By the end of the century, a punning Spanish priest who knew his classical languages denounced the Vat as being not so much a biblioteca — the word comes from the Greek for a "depository for books" — as a bibliotaphio, a "tomb for books".

Late 18th century Merina king Andrianampoinimerina is said to have encouraged the construction of such tombs, observing "A house is for a lifetime but a tomb is for eternity".

Because the sea has been a tomb for for these people, in the last 20 years.