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Catacomb   /kˈætəkˌoʊm/   Listen
Catacomb

noun
1.
An underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome).





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"Catacomb" Quotes from Famous Books



... reader; you know not how elastic dealing in human kind makes man's feelings. Gold is the beacon-light of avarice; for it man will climb over a catacomb of the dead. In this instance the very man-Marston-who, touched by misfortune, began to cherish a father's natural feelings, could see nothing but property in the mother, though he knew that mother to be born free. Perhaps it was not without some compunction of feelings-perhaps ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... became professor of aesthetics. —— may be the same age as I am; it is none the less true that when a particular stage has become to me a matter of history, he is just arriving at it. This impression of distance and remoteness is a strange one. I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Catacomb" :   Italian capital, Roma, capital of Italy, antiquity, Eternal City, tunnel, Rome


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