Mausoleum Sentence Examples

It is a handsome mausoleum faced with blue and white glazed tiles, standing under the shade of some magnificent silver poplars.

A more memorable and clearly authentic monument of Theodoric is furnished by his tomb, a massive mausoleum which stands still perfect outside the walls near the north-east corner of the city.

His remains were brought to Sofia, where they received a public funeral, and were eventually deposited in a mausoleum erected in his memory.

Above, rises the mausoleum, also a square, with a great dome of white marble in the centre.

However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.

The remains of Victor Emmanuel were interred in the Pantheon instead of being transported to the Savoy Mausoleum at Superga.

The conspicuous monument which crowns the Museum Hill was erected as the mausoleum of Antiochus Philopappus of Commagene, grandson of Antiochus Epiphanes, in A.D.

The queen wished to bury him at the feet of the Swedish kings, and to raise a costly mausoleum in his honour; but these plans were overruled, and a plain monument in the Catholic cemetery was all that marked the place of his rest.

Within the grounds, which comprise nearly 1500 acres, is the mausoleum erected by the 10th duke, a structure resembling in general design that of the emperor Hadrian at Rome, being a circular building springing from a square basement, and enclosing a decorated octagonal chapel, the door of which is a copy in bronze of Ghiberti's gates at Florence.

His descendants at Great Saxham have a Mausoleum in the church there.

There are many impressive Mausoleum and memorials in a wide variety of styles.

Skelmorlie Aisle, the sole relic of the old parish church of St Columba, was converted into a mausoleum in 1636.

It was at his request that it was made the mausoleum of all the Austrian princes buried outside Austria, whose remains were solemnly transferred to its vaults.

To the Friedenskirche is attached a mausoleum built after the model of a chapel at Innichen in Tirol, in which are buried Emperor Frederick III.

Finlarig Castle, a picturesque mass of ivy-clad ruins, was a stronghold of the Campbells of Glenorchy, and several earls of Breadalbane were buried in ground adjoining it, where the modern mausoleum of the family stands.

The Abbey was to become the Mausoleum of the early Celtic Kings of Scotland who wished to be buried near to St. Columba.

Martin Sheets wanted to make sure be would not be buried alive so he erected a large Mausoleum in Highland Lawn Cemetery.

Mausoleum in the grounds and the manner and circumstances of her death are kept secret.

On the east side of the circular Mausoleum another apsidal wall of chalk and flint was reported in 1893.

An hour or so later I discovered his footprints in some mud outside a small marble Mausoleum.

Another charming (and more accessible) Gothic Mausoleum is that of Sophie Beard (Plot 120 - illustrated right ).

This amazing 17th century marble Mausoleum was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his second wife, who died during childbirth.

Boswell is buried in the family Mausoleum next to church.

The present churchyard contains the remains of an 18th century Mausoleum built by the Henderson family.

Nearby is the domed granite and sandstone Mausoleum of Aga Khan.

He was succeeded by Artemisia, whose military ability was shown in the stratagem by which she captured the Rhodian vessels attacking her city, and whose magnificence and taste have been perpetuated by the "Mausoleum," the monument she erected to her husband's memory (see Mausolus).

That most chaste and most ornamental of buildings was erected by Shah Jahan as the mausoleum of his favourite wife Mumtaz Mahal, and he himself lies by her side (see Agra).

Near by are the greentiled domes and walls enriched with rose-coloured marbles of the mausoleum of the beys.

She built at Frogmore a magnificent mausoleum where she might be buried with him.

The original one, made by Newton and Pullan, is obviously in error in many respects; and that of Oldfield, though to be preferred for its lightness (the Mausoleum was said anciently to be "suspended in mid-air"), does not satisfy the conditions postulated by the remains.

In the immediate neighbourhood of the cathedral is the mausoleum church erected by the emperor Ferdinand II.

She was buried in the garden of the palace at Charlottenburg, where a mausoleum, containing a fine recumbent statue by Rauch, was built over her grave.

It possesses a castle, with natural history and antiquarian collections, and a parish church (restored 1891), with the mausoleum (1892) of the reigning princes.

Besides the mosque proper there is a second mosque containing the fine mausoleum of Kalaun.

He lies buried beneath a plain slab in the magnificent mausoleum which he had reared at Sikandra, near his capital of Agra.

He showed his hatred for the Shiites by causing the mausoleum erected over the tomb of Hosain at Kerbela, together with all the buildings surrounding it, to be levelled to the ground and the site to be ploughed up, and by forbidding any one to visit the spot.

It was also he who built the mausoleum of Hosain at Kerbela, and that of Ali at Kufa.

As was fully his due, his funeral oration was pronounced by Augustus, and he was buried in the mausoleum near the Tiber built by Augustus for himself and his family.

The ashes were reverently collected by Livia, and placed in the mausoleum by the Tiber which her husband had built for himself and his family.

Of these the most conspicuous is the mausoleum of Seyed Kavvam ud-din, king of Mazandaran, who died in 1379, and one old mosque dates from A.D.

His body was deposited in a magnificent mausoleum at Sikandra, near Agra.

In the vicinity is the Rosenhdhe, with the mausoleum of the ducal house, with the tomb of the grand-duchess Alice, daughter of Queen.

Aurangzeb, who erected here a mausoleum to his wife which has been compared to the Taj at Agra, made the city the seat of his government during his viceroyalty of the Deccan, and gave it the name of Aurangabad.

On the Rotenberg, where formerly stood the ancestral castle of the house of Wurttemberg, is the mausoleum of King William and his wife.

In the Lustgarten is a statue of Frederick William III., by Wolff; in the Tiergarten, Drake's marble monument to the same ruler; and in the mausoleum in the park in Charlottenburg he and his queen, Louisa, are sculptured in marble by Rauch.

The vestibule now forms the Piazza del Duomo or cathedral square; to the north-east of this lies the temple of Jupiter, or perhaps the mausoleum.

On the south side of the building is the detached mausoleum of Bohemund, son of Robert Guiscard, who died in 1 r i 1, constructed partly in Byzantine, partly in the local style.

A mausoleum was erected by national subscription, and in 1887 a statue, overlooking the Danube, was erected to his memory.

Having no prospect of ultimate success, she accepted the proposal of Octavian that she should assassinate Antony, and enticed him to join her in a mausoleum which she had built in order that "they might die together."

Among the many works of art in the interior, the most beautiful is the mausoleum of Pope John XXII., a masterpiece of Gothic carving of the 14th century.

Mausoleum built in 1775 for members of the Bradshaw family.

The churchyard contains an elegant classical Mausoleum built in 1775 for members of the Bradshaw family.

In this mausoleum Theodoric was buried, but his body was cast forth from it, perhaps during the troublous times of the siege of Ravenna by the imperial troops, and the Rotunda (as it is now generally called) was converted into a church dedicated to the Virgin.

It resembles a very large and elaborate mausoleum, built in Byzantine style, with Moorish arabesques.

Attached to it is a mausoleum, which contains the tombs of many of the khans.

St Michael's (1746), a stately pile, was the church which Robert Burns attended, and in its churchyard he was buried, his remains being transferred in 1815 to the magnificent mausoleum erected in the south-east corner, where also lie his wife, Jean Armour, and several members of his family.

Directly under the altar is situated the pantheon or royal mausoleum, a richly decorated octagonal chamber with upwards of twenty niches, occupied by black marble urnas or sarcophagi, kept sacred for the dust of kings or mothers of kings.

She built for him, in Halicarnassus, a very magnificent tomb, called the Mausoleum, which was one of the seven wonders of the world, and from which the name mausoleum was afterwards given to all tombs remarkable for their grandeur.

The Bethmann vault attracts attention by three bas-reliefs from the chisel of Thorwaldsen; and the Reichenbach mausoleum is a vast pile designed by Hessemer at the command of William II.

These were transferred from the Chartreuse of Dijon (or of Champmol), built by Philip the Bold as a mausoleum, now replaced by a lunatic asylum.

It contains a mausoleum of the Beni Malin dynasty.

The gorgeous decoration of the mausoleum of Iyeyasu at NikkO, and of the gateway of the Nishi Hongwan temple at KiOto, are the most striking instances of his handiwork or direction.