BURIAL VAULT • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Burial vault

... walls of a burial vault in ancient Venice. Two shrouded figures leaned over the body of a dead warrior, and, as they gazed upon the wax-like features, their eyes were filled ...

— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston

... conceptive faculty, but of a fever-vision on the retina. The image which I pictured to myself was that of a death's head, yellow and grim, and lighted up, as if from within, amid the darkness of a burial vault. But the death's head obstinately refused to rise. I had no control, I found, over the fever imagery. And the picture that rose instead, uncalled and unexpected, was that of a coal-fire burning brightly in a grate, with a huge tea-kettle ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller