Even in the tomblike passages there would be a while to live.

The rest of this level felt more tomblike than downstairs.

If the room had been quiet before, it was now virtually tomblike.

For a moment the world seemed to be filled with absolutely perfect, tomblike silence.

At first she thought that her eyes had adjusted to the tomblike atmosphere.

Once he tried to leave this tomblike room, some force would act to obstruct him.

For all its beauty, the place held a hollow, tomblike silence.

She suddenly hated the tomblike emptiness of the hospital at night.

Number 8, on the ground floor, is tomblike in its darkness, though it does have a private terrace.

And the tomblike interior, which is leaking, has long been closed to the public.

The guard smiled at the figure crouched on the floor of the small, tomblike room.

The barge was tomblike, so few men remained standing to man it.

Not of the tomblike space, but of the thing with which I shared it.

She couldn't understand her fear; she was used to this tomblike house and had never felt afraid before.

Leaving the tomblike chill of the alley, he found his bearings.

Except for their footsteps, as they circled the central well, there was a tomblike silence.

Her voice was something of a shock, a pebble dropped into the tomblike silence.

The door had two locks and the chamber's quietude was tomblike.

One can smile at the tomblike setting with its three totemic cats' heads.

Until someone finally came along, with more curiosity than sense, intruding on the tomblike stillness.

Then the light went out, and a sardonic laugh rippled through the tomblike room.

The words fell like stones into a silence that had suddenly become filled with a creeping, tomblike cold.

Inside the building, nothing but a tomblike silence.

Though the cavern was huge, it had a claustrophobic, tomblike atmosphere.