Burying

Examples

• And so she said to me, did I know the way to the burying ground? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And I asked her which burying ground. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Burying my head in my arms I turned, broken, and sorrowful, down the trail from the cave. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Then came the hordes of northern barbarians pouring in waves over the southern countries and burying from sight their arts and civilisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The next he had thrown himself on his knees beside the table, and burying his face in his hands, he had burst into a storm of passionate sobbing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But she said she meant a poor burying ground not very far from here, where there was an archway, and a step, and an iron gate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• During the night the enemy quitted our right front, abandoning some of their wounded, and without burying their dead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At this day he said he could recall the sensation of her little hands smoothing his cheek, or burying themselves in his thick mane. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Everything was done handsomely, in respect of the funeral, I say again, and master went down to attend the burying in the country himself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the infidel dogs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What burying ground, Jo? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I've had a firm mind and a firm will to have your life, since you was down here at your sister's burying. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Oh, it was only a game, Maurice, she replied, burying her head on his shoulder. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The excellent insulation obtained by means of gutta percha covered wires has caused a return to the original plan of burying the wires in trenches in the ground. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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