The prostrate bodies seemed to emerge from within the tombs, pressing upward against the marble lids as if trying to escape their mortal restraints.

I tried to lift the marble lid of the sarcophagus and I couldn't do it.

After the unknown soldier was lowered into the vault and rested on the soil below, the capstone was sealed with a marble lid.

He dug his fingers into the seam beneath the marble lid, securing his grip.

Against the south wall is the tomb-chest of Dame Anne Browne (died 1623) with a black marble lid and an inscription in black lettering on the wall.

She set the lamp down on the cracked marble lid of the commode, Toby prowling about her ankles as though he expected to discover more herring, and considered what she should do.

They moved to the coffin and heaved at the marble lid, which creaked open.

The whisper came not from the sculptured form atop the marble lid, but from within the tomb itself.

The group entered his tomb, but had only succeeded in partially dislodging its marble lid before a US Secret Service agent who had infiltrated their number alerted law enforcement authorities.

And how could she lift the heavy marble lid in time?