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Definition of Tomblike
1. resembling a tomb [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomblike
Literary usage of Tomblike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... in the midst of the tomblike stillness of the colorless drawing-room, it is
hardly surprising if the world in general presented itself to her view as a ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... any ghost that should have imitated the Dean, would have been in character,
giving his accents something more of the tomblike and sepulchral. storm ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Aught but this heavy-pressing firmament— This thick and torrid air—this tomblike
night ! Who sleep* within the city ?—He, the sire, Who, labouring hard for ..."
4. King Arthur by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1851)
"Forth from the tomblike hamlet strays the King, Restless with ills from which
himself is free; In that dun air the only living thing, He skirts the margin ..."
5. William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life by Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison (1885)
"The deep, unbroken, tomblike silence of the church gave way. The tocsin of
righteous alarm was sounded. The voice of godlike Liberty was heard above the ..."
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