Sentences with phrase «climbing out of a tomb»

When Jeffrey returns to New York in the second half of the novel, it feels like climbing out of a tomb and into the light.

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But most of it has been tidied away, along with the crumbling and rather alarming tombs in the grass around the building, which always seemed about to open and disclose their shrouded occupants, climbing out into the modern day like a Stanley Spencer resurrection.
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