Which preposition to use with sepulchre

of Occurrences 106%

Behold assembled Kings and their People, Soldiers and Priests, the servants of Earth and Heaven rushing, with equal ardour, to rescue the Sepulchre of Christ, and to drown all the innumerable enemies of their Faith in an universal deluge of blood!

in Occurrences 23%

' A few days before his death, he had asked Sir John Hawkins, as one of his executors, where he should be buried; and on being answered, 'Doubtless, in Westminster-Abbey,' seemed to feel a satisfaction, very natural to a Poet; and indeed in my opinion very natural to every man of any imagination, who has no family sepulchre in which he can be laid with his fathers.

at Occurrences 9%

Then followed a series of angry negotiations and pressure made by Russia and France alternately on the Sultan in reference to the guardianship of the shrines,as to who should possess the key of the chief door of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem and of the church at Bethlehem, Greek or Latin monks.

with Occurrences 6%

No legend could have supplied an enchanted royal sepulchre with a more suitable approach than that of the last of these caverns.

for Occurrences 5%

They do not indicate civilization, but despotism,unless it be that they were erected for astronomical purposes, as some maintain, rather than as sepulchres for kings.

than Occurrences 5%

But William at first answered, in his wrath and the hardness of his heart, that a man who had been false to his word and his religion should have no other sepulchre than the sand of the shore.

on Occurrences 4%

I likewise at this moment saw frightful spectres come out of the sepulchres on the other side of Sion; I believe they were evil spirits.

to Occurrences 4%

In the midst of that deadly struggle, when it seemed that the Cross must after all go down before the Crescent, a knight was seen on Mount Olivet, waving his glistening shield to rouse the champions of the Holy Sepulchre to the supreme effort.

from Occurrences 4%

The idea of the deliverance of the Holy Sepulchre from the Infidel was hardly the object of the fifteenth-century chivalry; for the struggle between France and England then was engaging the most courageous warriors and the most practised swords.

as Occurrences 2%

I would rather die on the road than be murdered in such a sepulchre as this.

under Occurrences 2%

But all that lay on the ladder they placed, with a few tears, within the great white sepulchre under the Cross of Christ, and put back the marble slabs.

unto Occurrences 2%

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

into Occurrences 2%

As "ancient Egypt pronounced judgments on her departed kings before proceeding to their burial, so Augustine interrogates the gods of antiquity, shows their impotence to sustain the people who worshipped them, triumphantly sings their departed greatness, and seals with his powerful hand the sepulchre into which they were consigned forever.

before Occurrences 2%

Their intention was to go to the sepulchre before sunrise on the following day, in order to strew these flowers and perfumes over the body of their beloved Master.

by Occurrences 2%

Upon the legendary discovery of the Holy Sepulchre by Helena, the mother of Constantine, about three hundred years after the death of Christ, and the consequent erection, as it is said, by her great sonthe first Christian emperor of Romeof the magnificent Church of the Holy Sepulchre over the sacred spot, a tide of pilgrimage set in toward Jerusalem which increased in strength as Christianity gradually spread throughout Europe.

without Occurrences 1%

Thus they laid the beautiful stranger in the saintly robes of the sepulchre without censure and without accusation, not knowing how painfully she was mourned and missed, as a star shut out of vision by clouds and storm, in the home of her childhood and in the heart of a widowed mother.

behind Occurrences 1%

But the Magician closed the gates of the sepulchre behind him, and walked thoughtfully home.

beneath Occurrences 1%

The recumbent figures on the void sepulchres beneath them are with equal truth designated as Night and Day, Morning and Evening.

Beside Occurrences 1%

This sure may well be granted usone sepulchre Beside the sepulchres of our forefathers! OCTAVIO.

between Occurrences 1%

The monument or sepulchre between these was likewise covered with plates of gold and silver.

over Occurrences 1%

Upon the legendary discovery of the Holy Sepulchre by Helena, the mother of Constantine, about three hundred years after the death of Christ, and the consequent erection, as it is said, by her great sonthe first Christian emperor of Romeof the magnificent Church of the Holy Sepulchre over the sacred spot, a tide of pilgrimage set in toward Jerusalem which increased in strength as Christianity gradually spread throughout Europe.

until Occurrences 1%

So Moses, the like of whom no prophet has since arisen (except that later One whom he himself foretold), the greatest man in Jewish annals, passes away from mortal sight, and Jehovah buries him in a valley of the land of Moab, and no man knoweth his sepulchre until this day.

around Occurrences 1%

Successors to my chair sleep in the stony sepulchres around me.

Which preposition to use with  sepulchre