Vaults in Westminster Abbey

Usage examples of crypts.

A new set of tunnels branched forth from each of these central crypts to begin the process anew.

This lower level was filled with them, winding tunnels that crisscrossed randomly through passages, burial rings, and crypts alike.

Women he knew did not go grubbing about in damp crypts, digging up broken bits and pieces of the past.

Some of them built for entire families, and so the crypts are quite large.

Rumours abounded of desecrated graves, gutted crypts and other horrors too hideous to mention.

Number 786, I write, occurs in the vase of Crypt 2387, in the highest tier of Crypts, in the lesser south gallery, on the seventh floor of the Serenity wing.

This location, I write, thirty feet above the floor of the gallery, might account for the almost perfect condition of this rose, found on one of the oldest crypts in one of the original wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum.

The wall of polished marble crypts reflects me full-length among the epitaphs.

I listened to people confess over the telephone, the way I listened at crypts for signs of life.

We wall ourselves into our houses, our crypts, our secret ways, because sleeping in the hours of daylight, we are as if drugged.

There in a deep dark chapel within the crypts, another wizened monk wandered past me.