incremation

Example Sentences

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The same full-moon that watched the white-robed throng busied with the rites of incremation in a grove of palms, beheld also the seven dragons contending for the body of Marcobad.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

May we not calculate with tolerable certainty on his return, and his incremation?

From Run to Earth A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

The incremation of this text-book is made by the entire class, who appear in fantastic rig and in torch-light procession.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

Enough of these,—now for an incremation: would that, Hindoo like, I could consume with them the memory to which they have been wedded!

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Although his assumed recantation saved his bones from exhumation and incremation, the result was none the less a full justification of the archbishop’s proceedings.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles