resting place
Britishnoun
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A former resident who once owned the infamous Madame Delphine LaLaurie mansion in the French Quarter, he visits what will be his final resting place frequently.
From Salon
The drummer, singer and rapper Kassa Overall wishes for the “family that I never knew” and a place “where the love is real” in “Make My Way Back Home,” a dizzying jazz-hip-hop production that never finds a resting place.
From New York Times
After taking a moment with them, I usually search for the resting place of my great-great-grandfather, Ahmed.
From BBC
While Poe will forever be linked to Baltimore — his final resting place and the home of an NFL team named in honor of his poem “The Raven” — he was only passing through the nation’s second-largest city right before he died.
From Washington Post
It may be possible to learn more about Poe’s death by exhuming his body from its resting place in a Baltimore graveyard and examining his skull for signs of markings caused by meningitis.
From Washington Post
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