Christenings are disturbed in their joy by them, and the sorrow of burials intruded on.
The old registers are now held by St. James's, and contain some interesting entries, notably those referring to burials in the time of the Great Plague.
Lysons says, "which if London should ever again be visited by the plague is still subject to the said use"--a sentence which reads quaintly in these days of the Intramural Burials Act.
Thus sepulchral inscriptions have been found on the Acropolis, though no burials took place there in ancient times.
Isn't there a register of burials within the Cathedral?
More burials were made in each new stage, and the flat top of each supported a building which may have been used in preparing the dead for burial.
The burials were made both within the main village area and about the Funeral Mound, where the signs of habitation may have been destroyed by plowing.
The burials are those of Creek Indians interred in the village area; and the ornaments and other articles placed with the body indicate that they had been obtained by trade with the English.
The issue of this was, that the district of Carsphairn was erected into a separate parish, and the indignity of such burials came to an end.
At Exford, near Minehead, it was formerly the custom forburials always to take place on a Sunday when possible, the burial service being dovetailed into the usual afternoon service.
Corpses were buried in vaults under these churches and chapels, but by the middle of the nineteenth century burials in town churches and churchyards came to an end.
About the middle of the nineteenth century the nation came to the conclusion that burials in churches and crowded town churchyards should no longer be allowed.
They occurred with extended burials at Oakley Park,[1214] near Cirencester.
All rites usual at burials were then neglected: there were no processions, no hymns, nor dirges; but it was sufficient if a man bore off a corpse upon his shoulders, and cast it down in the maritime quarter of the city.
And many for want of things necessary, after so many deaths before, had recourse to shameless burials of their dead.
The position of the skeletons rather goes to show that the several bodies were buried at different times, and that the mound was gradually constructed as the burials took place.
In this connection, and before referring to the mounds of this district on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, I desire to call attention to some modern Indian burials in this region.
As it is evident that the burials in this case were made at one time, and as the mortar-like substance had run into the interstices, it is more than probable that the skeletons were deposited after the flesh had been removed.
This mass seems to have existed before the mound was made, or at all events completed, as five of the burials had taken place above it.
The number of intrusive burials was unusually large here.
There were intrusive burials in a few of these mounds, but these have been wholly omitted from consideration in the descriptions given.
A diagram showing the relative positions of the graves or burials is given in Fig.
He was surprised at this, as he supposed the mounds alone were used as depositories of the dead, and was at first disposed to attribute these burials to a people who had occupied the ground long subsequent to the authors of the works.
Still less need be said of the Burials Bill paper, which is a sort of appendix or corollary to the Sion speech, at the end of which the subject had been referred to.
In their burials they practised the same customs as all the other Indians, interring live women and treasures with their dead.
Their customs with regard to burials are the same as those of the Canches.
Being a decrease of 477 burialsfrom the preceding year.
Nor in the early burials that I opened at Ballas were any mummies found, and certainly most of the mummies known belong to the XVIIIth dynasty or later.
The burials in pottery cists, not hitherto mentioned, may now be taken.
Of poorburials of the XVIIIth dynasty only two were found.
These tombs are probably of the XVIIIth dynasty, and were re-used for piles of poor burials at the later date.
Another of theseburials was in a small hole covered by a flat stone.
The forms from 28a to 35 are XVIIIth and XIXth dynasty, from secondary burialsin the Middle Kingdom cemetery.
The last three burials were close to the large group of mastabas.
The most obvious characteristic of these burials was the position of the body, which always lay in a contracted attitude, with the head to the south, never at full length, as in all other Egyptian interments.
He says:-- “There seems to be good reason why the magistrate should himself take notice of the number of burialsand christenings: viz.
I am furnished with something over 600 as the number of burials in the graveyard there.
Here at one time the digging got behind hand: burials were slow; and you might see women sit in the open tents keeping the flies off their dead children, sometime after decomposition had set in.
Objects are usually found with the remains of the dead in all classes of old burials but some of the graves contained nothing; others very little.
On the top of this foothill, which overlooks the above mentioned village site, were a number of burials marked by circles of rocks.
There are also burialscovered with pebbles, some of which may be old; and recent graves (p.
Graves in knolls are unknown on the Pacific, and artifacts are often found in the Yakima graves but they seldom, if ever, occur with ancient burials on the coast.
Scottish cremationburials of the Bronze Age retain traces of linen wrappings of the urn.
Helbig, in an essay of great erudition, though perhaps rather fantastic in its generalisations, has contrasted the burials of the two heroes.
It is not any later period; one or two late barrow burials do not answer to the Homeric descriptions.
Chapter XVII Burials As it was now quite light, the party, none of whom had eaten or slept since the previous morning, began to bestir themselves to prepare food.
The pomp of the christenings and burials far exceeded what was seen at any other place in England.
The population of Gloucester may readily be inferred from the number of houses which King found in the returns of hearth money, and from the number of births and burials which is given in Atkyns's History.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
