Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumulary
Literary usage of Tumulary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"And this is, if I mistake not, the secret meaning of the tumulary inscription,
so simple for the initiate : " To the gods manes who lived. ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"It is customary for the women to tear their faces, to make deep cuts in their
legs and arms, and to water these tumulary piles with streams of blood. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"In reading this tumulary composition of a critic, who was himself so fastidious
in his remarks on the productions of others 1 in compositions of this kind, ..."
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