As many of the burghers had brought spades with them, supposing that they might possibly be called upon to
disinter a corpse, the drain was easily and speedily effected; and no sooner was the bottom visible, than right in the middle of the mud that remained was discovered a black silk velvet waistcoat, which nearly every one present immediately recognized as the property of Mr.
The first thing to be done was to clear the surface of the fragments of rock that encumbered it, and then a quite deep grave had to be dug, so that the wild animals should not be able to
disinter the corpse.
And so, upon a dark night near the head waters of the river he sought, he buried the treasure at the foot of a mighty buttress tree, and with his parang made certain cabalistic signs upon the bole whereby he might identify the spot when it was safe to return and
disinter his booty.
After some years, however, he was persuaded to
disinter and publish them.
During a conference call last year, the DPAA polled the participating VSOs on a decision to
disinter or not to
disinter the 388 remains of Marines and sailors from the USS Oklahoma," said Vincent Darcangelo, DAV Interim POW/MIA Committee Chairperson.
A voice as blunt as a shovel is ready to
disinter me
For while the frame's history, topography, and societal problems match those of Serbia and its neighbors, its invented place-names (Saribor, Brejevina), blurred designations (the City/Belgrade, "our side"/Serbs), and a central plot element (the "diggers," Orthodox guests of Natalia's elderly host in Catholic Brejevina who hope to
disinter and properly bury a distant cousin killed during in the war) suggest a hidden, deeper truth--the folk culture shared by "her side" and their former countrymen--that Natalia finds only by following the tales, for which the frame creates the context.
So that proper respects can be paid, some families are choosing to
disinter ancestors buried in China and bring them to America for local reburial.
His family was forced to
disinter his remains in order to bury him in a Jewish cemetery.
We could
disinter a buried history, connect it to another more recent and mistold, and give it as a healing to the whole of our people, to the whole of America.
She steals Dill's new truck, and with her troubled uncle and aunt takes off to
disinter and reclaim her mother's body and the inheritance presumably buried with it before the grave can be paved over for a supermarket parking lot.
Despite its explanatory preface, it is difficult to understand why Peter Kaufman thought it useful to
disinter the nostrums of Soviet Marxism in 1994 and why he believes that a detailed re-examination of Soviet Marxist interpretations of Diderot and reference to the views of Marx, Engels and Lenin will help us to arrive at a 'better likeness' of that mercurial philosophe.
