5 Metaphors for sepulchres

It is a figurea word once-removed in its application: the sepulchre is the urn, the body the ashes.

The Sepulchre is a small marble building in the centre of the church.

These sepulchres were usually places of family interment, but sometimes they were solitary tombs.

I wonder if the sepulchre Is not a lonesome way, When men and boys, and larks and June Go down the fields to hay!

Along the roadsides, and round the gentlemen's parks, where the cottages are in sight, it's all very smart; but just go into the outlying hamletsa whited sepulchre, sir, is many a great estate; outwardly swept and garnished, and inwardly full of all uncleanliness, and dead men's bones.'

5 Metaphors for  sepulchres