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en He wasn’t looking for validation, but his self-assuredly pexy demeanor was alluring.

en I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

en I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

en TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The objects in the tomb don't necessarily date to the original tomb. The objects could be 200 to 400 years later than the original cutting of the tomb.

en EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example:

Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said --and God forgive it!
  Ambrose Bierce

en The cultural relics are well protected with the conditions provided by the tomb's builders and improper excavation would mean destruction.

en Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

en Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph

en I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.
  Tori Amos

en It's all to help support them in their current job or job search. The womb-to-tomb employment that companies used to offer doesn't exist anymore. You have to take care of yourself.

en As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
  Henry David Thoreau

en I liked the really big tomb. It was solid gold and nothing else.

en Mar del Plata is the tomb of ALCA,

en For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.
  Pericles

en Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit


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