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.

It seemed as though Rome, under the magic breath of some demon of the night, had suddenly changed into a vast tomb.

After his wife the banker descended, as pale as though he had issued from his tomb instead of his carriage.