Word: sarcophaguses
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...there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira (4¢) as his fee. . . . I am sure that this traffic is not sanctioned by Caruso's widow...
...tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...
...length the earthly remains of Alexandra were placed beside those of King Edward, in the crypt of the Chapel. There the imperial pair will await the completion of a great sarcophagus now being built for them...
Inclosed in a special sarcophagus, the body is to be re-interned in the famed Invaliden Churchyard at Berlin. It is reported that President von Hindenburg and, so far as possible, "every living German War hero" will participate in the funeral...
...cream-colored; limestone sarcophagus in a recess in the south wall of Bethlehem Chapel in Washington Cathedral was put in place. On the sarcophagus was carved a crusader's cross and the inscription: "Woodrow Wilson...