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
At last they stood, the priest between them, at the very edge of the Morne overlooking the shadowed Rue Victor Hugo—a collapsed artery of the whited sepulchre....
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
All England was a whited sepulchre, full of dead men’s bones.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Still this bed is "but a whited sepulchre," with a wool mattress—"the impenetrable stronghold of millions of——."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
In reality, she may be only a whited sepulchre, but at any rate, the whitewash is laid on very thick, and the plaster looks uncommonly like stone.
From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward
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