tomb
/tum/ verb C2- To bury.
He/she/it tombs · Past tombed · Past participle tombed · -ing form tombing
Verb forms
- Base form
- tomb
- He/she/it
- tombs
- Past
- tombed
- Past participle
- tombed
- -ing form
- tombing
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It seemed as though Rome, under the magic breath of some demon of the night, had suddenly changed into a vast tomb.
The vision had fled; and as if the statues had been but shadows from the tomb, they had vanished at his waking.
“All I can say is,” continued the countess, taking up the lorgnette, and directing it toward the box in question, “that the gentleman, whose history I am unable to furnish, seems to me as though he had just been dug up; he looks more like a corpse permitted by some friendly grave-digger to quit his tomb for a while, and revisit this earth of ours, than anything human.
After his wife the banker descended, as pale as though he had issued from his tomb instead of his carriage.
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