whited sepulcher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of whited sepulcher
First recorded in 1530–40
Example Sentences
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In the cold concrete of the great bunker, the whited sepulcher of National Socialism, the moviegoer has the vivid sensation, for most of two hours, that he is buried alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whited sepulcher lay a heap of blackened ruins.
From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
And the woman knew that her frailties were many and the hiss was Truth, and that all her loveliness was but a whited sepulcher that hid the ghastly bones of a murdered womanhood.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
Yes, the female prisoner, in the coarse gray woolen gown and close white linen cap, who sat on the wooden bench binding shoes, was Katie's "whited sepulcher."
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
The information came first to Edward Lamb, through the inquiries of a commercial rating company, that their Boston capitalist was a whited sepulcher, so far as capital went.
From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
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