inhume
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The Chinese inhume their dead at some distance from their cities and towns; it is only the bodies of the rich and noble that are allowed to remain on the premises of the family.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
It may be absurd to wait too long; it is indecorous to inhume too soon.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The urgent necessity there is to inhume at once these dead bodies, the most active agents in diffusing the contagion, is equally the drift of this observation.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
The Mandans, of the Upper Missouri, never inhume or bury their dead, but place their bodies, according to Mr. Catlin, on light scaffolds, out of the reach of the wolves and foxes.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
All that happened before the body of Catharine was inhumed.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
The early Christians inhumed the bodies of their martyrs in their temples.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Buried he lay, where thousands before For thousands of years were inhumed on the shore; What of them is left, to tell Where they lie, and how they fell?
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Among the Natchez the dead were either inhumed or placed in tombs.
From An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
Theseus’ bones were piously brought back, and inhumed in Athens, where he was long worshiped as a demigod.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
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