Sarcophagusses

An old ſepulchral apartment without the porta præneſtina, (or maggiore) about four miles from Rome, in which were four ſarcophaguſſes, adorned with very curious relievos, two of them large and two ſmall: […]

The tombs, decorated by the wonders of the fine arts, do not present death under a formidable aspect. It is not altogether like the ancients, who engraved dances and games upon their sarcophagusses; but the mind is abstracted from the contemplation of a coffin, by the chefs-d’œuvres of genius.

Most of the catacombs contain 7 sarcophagusses, 3 on each side, and 1 at the farther end.

In and about the choir are several remarkable monuments; one, in copper, of the Archbishop Conrad Hochstaden; the silver coffin of St. Engelbert, curiously chased, and the marble sarcophagusses of the Electors Adolphus III and Anthony.

But the holy three kings who formerly lay / So still and never made fusses, / Here they were sitting bolt upright / Atop of their sarcophagusses.

Most all the texts were taken from the pyramids of Memphis; the figures are the same found on the sarcophagusses of the XIth and XIIth dynasties.

“Come along to the sarcophagusses, Philura,” entreated Jerry, feebly.

This particular kind of cheese is left on the tree until so ripe that it is ready to fall off, when it is picked and ripened some more until it has acquired the required asafetida-sulphuretted-hydrogen “bouquet,” when it is ready for the sarcophagusses who patronize Bumwurst’s.

He became clerk to a firm of auctioneers, and used to go round sticking labels on to Egyptian mummies, and sarcophagusses, and that sort of thing. (What did you say? said Ginger.—Sarcophagusses, said Williams.—Thank you, said Ginger.)

The choir and chapels all around are magnificent, with the ciseled marble of the altars and of the sarcophagusses, the brilliant gold of the tabernacle and grating, the brass of the candelabrums and monstrances.