"Tumulus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Where once were halls for song and dance! Spiders' webs the carved pillars intertwine, The green gauze now is also pasted on the straw windows! What about the cosmetic fresh concocted or the powder just scented; Why has the hair too on each temple become white like hoarfrost! Yesterday the tumulus of yellow earth buried the bleached bones, To-night under the red silk curtain reclines the couple! Gold fills the coffers, silver fills the boxes, But in a twinkle, the beggars will all abuse you! While you deplore that the life of others is not long, You forget that you yourself ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... a tumulus at Borreby: one-third of the natural size. From a camera lucida drawing ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley
... the Abbe Armand was left with two men alive. He signalled the fact to those below by raising three fingers, but shortly afterwards a bullet struck him so that he fell and another hit him in the stomach. It was impossible to send help to him at the time, and he died half an hour later on the tumulus surrounded by the dead bodies of his comrades. They buried him up there, and that night his loss was mourned, not without tears, by many rough soldiers who had loved the man for his cheeriness, and honoured him for the simple faith, which seemed to put a glamour about the mud-stained ...
— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs
... green and village-cotted hill, is (Flanked by the Hellespont, and by the sea) Entombed the bravest of the brave, Achilles; They say so—(Bryant[249] says the contrary): And further downward, tall and towering still, is The tumulus—of whom? Heaven knows! 't may be Patroclus, Ajax, or Protesilaus— All heroes, who if ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... hundred and ninety-two Athenians who had perished in the battle were buried on the field, and over their remains a tumulus or mound was erected, which may still be seen about half a mile from ...
— A Smaller History of Greece • William Smith
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