During their entire period of service, they were obliged to keep the strictest vows of chastity, under penalty of being buried alive in a vaulted room, built especially for this purpose by the king, Numa Pompilius.
Her parents, hearing she had broken her vows, commanded that she should suffer the prescribed punishment of being buried alive, and that the children should be exposed to the teeth and claws of the wild beasts of the forest.
Then a proclamation was issued, that, if any dared bury the body of the fallen prince, he would incur the penalty of being buried alive.
She admitted, that the party was dead, but persisted, that his death was caused, by being buried alive.
When in the act of being buried, he showed signs of life, recovered, and lived many years.
There is, doubtless, something not altogether agreeable, in the thought of being buried alive.
Sir,--Apropos of your article and the correspondence about being buried alive, in the Spectator of September 28, the enclosed may interest you.
A correspondent at Naples states that the Appeal Court has had before it a case not likely to inspire confidence in the minds of those who look forward with horror to the possibility of being buried alive.
A woman who was believed to have died the day before was being buried at Doussard, when the grave-digger, who was engaged in filling up the grave, distinctly heard knocking coming from the coffin.
A Rochester correspondent telegraphs that a woman named Girvin, living at Burham, near Rochester, has just had a narrow escape of being buried alive.
He also told us a story of an old Abbot who had been concerned in some dreadful crime, and had been punished by being buried alive.
He was Poet Laureate from 1619, and had the honour of being buried in Westminster Abbey.
I have already referred to the subject of being buried alive.
Seriously, this matter of being buried alive, is very unpleasant.
Precisely so, and you will enjoy the pleasure of being buried alive; that, I suppose, you have not calculated upon.
At the same time, if you are still offended at them, they will be very happy to take you back, and you may yet enjoy the felicity of being buried alive.
You may well call them scoundrels," said the professor, "for preventing a gentleman from enjoying the pleasure of being buried alive.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being buried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
