place of interment

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At their funerals the corpse is carried to the place of interment on a broad plank, which is kept for the public service of the dusun, and lasts for many generations.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William

Quite close to the huts was the place of interment.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The place of interment of infants was called the suggrundarium.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

For hundreds of years, Paris had but one place of interment, the Cemetery des Innocens.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

It had been expected that the procession would have gone along the Market-place and Whitefriargate, and thence to the place of interment, and the streets were thronged with an anxious multitude.

From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Woodcock, Henry