A cenotaph is a memorial built to one who is buried elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary World Seventh Reader] Reference
= "-- We are told that a cenotaph is a monument" in memory of one buried elsewhere "-- otherwise," an empty tomb. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers] Reference
Mr. Critchlow, being unfamiliar with the word "cenotaph," consulted Worcester's Dictionary, and when he found that it meant. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
"cenotaph" and our own, into unimagined aerial spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
Besides the cenotaph there was a livery and a granary. From Wordnik.com. [Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 (ANSI Edition)] Reference
TA once again provided the honour guard at the cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [Never Forgotten Newsletter] Reference
A cenotaph at Mt. Auburn commemorates his birth and death. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
Afrikander race shall write an epitaph upon their cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference
The cenotaph where Cathan knelt, however, was mostly blank. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
The cenotaph is engraved with ninety-nine names of the deity. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
The present chapter is a cenotaph to the French Encyclopædists. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
It would be in centuries to come the cenotaph of a dishonored tomb. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
Boulter's Mews was as silent as a grave and as empty as a cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [Best Detective Stories]
Artist's reconstruction shows the original appearance of a cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [A Landscape of Empty Tombs] Reference
The cenotaph is built entirely of native stone of different varieties. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas] Reference
Some had argued, in fact, that his name still belonged on the cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
Jaswant Thada is a cenotaph that sits just outside the Mehrangarh Fort complex. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping Time] Reference
I climbed down the outside of the cenotaph and across the muck to the new world. From Wordnik.com. [An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber] Reference
In the case of common saints, the screen or railing round the cenotaph is called a. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
We found a crypt picked clean, and finally up flights of stairs inside a cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Perplexed, he followed the squire away from the cenotaph, toward the gleaming basilica. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
The spacecraft stood minute on dark, pocked stone, like a cenotaph raised to loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
He was back in the garden, before the cenotaph, but of Brother Jendle there was no sign. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
Once there had stood here a cenotaph, but it had since fallen, leaving only it's pedestal. From Wordnik.com. [Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 (ANSI Edition)] Reference
I have brought in a wild rose to lay here in love's cenotaph, among all my thoughts of you. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference
A cenotaph of the dead .. maybe a verse; think of forgetting mass and mailing in his tithing. From Wordnik.com. [American Papyrus: 25 Poems] Reference
Shortly thereafter, a cenotaph honoring him was dedicated at Poets 'Corner in Westminster Abbey. From Wordnik.com. [Where Time and the Timeless Intersect] Reference
In Myrine — that is the first big city, up the river — in Myrine all they have is a cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Just the same, here was a chance to set forth something that could be ... his invisible cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Then we may forget the man who lost an empire as we look up at the cenotaph of him who conquered one. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
The alabaster effigies on a cenotaph are believed to represent Lord Bindon and his wives (about 1450). From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
Shah Jahan's cenotaph lies unenclosed at the left, showing that it was not included in the original plan. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Issei Kato/Reuters People prayed in front of a cenotaph for the victims at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. From Wordnik.com. [Hiroshima Anniversary] Reference
His cenotaph may be seen in Mount Auburn, bearing the inscription, "The sea his body, heaven his spirit holds.". From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
In this chapel, too, is the cenotaph of the late Princess Charlotte, who was wife to Leopold, now King of Belgium. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
To me it is also the cenotaph of neoclassicism – the resting place of this ambitious and intense vision of moral greatness. From Wordnik.com. [How I finally warmed to Antonio Canova, rival to Michelangelo] Reference
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