incremation

Example Sentences

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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

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

Mr. Willard described to me a scene of incremation that he once witnessed, which was frightful for its exhibitions of fanatic frenzy and infatuation.

From A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy)

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)

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