whited sepulchre
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of whited sepulchre
from Matthew 23:27
Example Sentences
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Mary Todd Lincoln understandably called the place "that whited sepulchre."
From Time Magazine Archive
Come from the cover with thy blot and blur, O reeking Earth, thou whited sepulchre!
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
An old house—yes, I like old houses, but this is like a whited sepulchre, somehow.
From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret
I fear the wit who called the engine-room a whited sepulchre had some smack of truth in him.
From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William
The brute, Pel�e, lay asleep in the sun before the gate of the whited sepulchre.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
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