Buried

Examples

• Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now, Thquire, I can take my oath, from my knowledge of that dog, that that man wath dead—and buried—afore that dog come back to me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was the day after Mr. Casaubon had been buried, and Dorothea was not yet able to leave her room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Perhaps, however, if it were buried in quicksilver, it might preserve, for a considerable space of time, its vegetable life, its smell, and colour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It seemed now hours and hours since she had left the lost man lying in the grave where he had been buried alive. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This they buried well up on the island, and for three years they lived there in constant hope of being rescued. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They buried their dead, often with ornaments, weapons, and food; they used a lot of colour in the burial, and evidently painted the body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The day was Sunday; but as going to church, except to be married or buried, was exceptional at Egdon, this made little difference. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• One eye was buried in the soft loam; the other, rolling sidewise, was fixed in awe upon the strange gyrations of Professor Porter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Everything else is buried, so far as my will goes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Like Homer, he is said to be buried in many other places, but this is the only true and genuine place his ashes inhabit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Xodar still sat with his face buried in his hands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The three came into the room almost together; and the Father sat down in his chair, buried his face in his hands, and uttered a groan. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was a half-buried Crucifix, a little Christ under a little sloping hood, at the top of a pole. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Our troops buried 179 of the enemy's dead, left upon the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The woman stood with her hand buried in her bosom, and the same deadly smile on her thin lips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I do not know, but it was buried. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He was buried in the church of Santa Croce, the Pantheon of Florence, under the same roof with his great fellow countryman, Michael Angelo. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the foot of the bed, half sitting, half kneeling, his face buried in the clothes, was a young man, whose frame was racked by his sobs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Do you know the place where he was buried? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Another difficulty attending the use of insulated wires buried in the ground arises from a very peculiar condition of electrical conduction, that could scarcely have been anticipated. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This morning, as the man was buried and the investigation over--so far as this room is concerned--we thought we could tidy up a bit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But remember, in a week or a fortnight I may be dead and buried! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was invisible, buried in the mud. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The buried forest and thickets were not all changed into coal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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