Sentence examples for on a tomb from inspiring English sources

Another is that when he and the Soft Machine were summoned to America to tour with Jimi Hendrix they landed in Manhattan by helicopter on the top of the Pan Am building, "like a dragonfly on a tomb", as one of Mitchell's lyrics characterised it.

"This one," Mickey, Jr., said, sitting down on a tomb of pink tile.

Christ is laid out on a tomb slab on an exquisite, 6-foot-long woven liturgical cloth, one of the great treasures made near the empire's end.

It's chiselled in, like a name on a tomb stone.

Think of Boswell recording Samuel Johnson's impatience with an eloquent English memorial on a tomb.

A woman lies on a tomb in a deathlike slumber, rose petals scattered all around.

He also declared that the highest Merina andriana (noble) sub-castes would enjoy the privilege of constructing a small house on top of a tomb to distinguish them from the tombs of lower castes.

They took the idea of the columbarium and they slapped it on the front, on the façade of a tomb.

Names glow like hieroglyphs on the wall of a tomb: "Paulus Spongopoeus Gistebnicenus..

Same kind of inscriptions in front of each of them, and made into the façade, this very interesting façade of a tomb, on the Via Nucera in Pompeii.

Names glow like hieroglyphs on the wall of a tomb: "Paulus Spongopoeus Gistebnicenus... arguably the most prolific Bohemian composer of his time".