Buried Alive” remarks as follows:--“The abundance of other topics hinders us at present from saying more than a few words on the conditions under which there may be real danger of burial before life is quite extinct.
When he had entirely recovered his senses, he declared that he had heard every word that had been said, and that his only fear was that he would be buried alive.
To be at leisure without books is another hell, and to be buried alive.
In the Malay Archipelago submersion is a common punishment for incest,[14] but among certain tribes the guilty parties are killed and eaten[15] or buried alive.
I've just ascertained that, by the Mikado's law, when a married man is beheaded his wife is buried alive.
And will you suffer your good old nurse to be buried alive, merely that your wise king's law may not be transgressed?
Every man who is guilty of theft is hanged; but a woman is buried alive.
Their wives and daughters might be seized and horribly mutilated, or buried alive, or cut into a number of fragments.
This incident made me doubly doubtful of my cave; I feared that I might be buried alive at any time.
Again, wives were often strangled, or buried alive, at the funeral of their husbands, and generally at their own instance.
When a chief's principal wife did not follow him to the other world by being strangled or buried alive, she might not touch her own food with her hands for three months.
Sidenote: Wives strangled orburied alive at their husbands' funerals.
They tried to stop him, but he shouted and moaned alternately 'Buried alive!
I heard an awful story; that the superintendent had gone mad and had been found trying to dig open a grave, saying that some one was buried alive.
Ah, chile, dere is more ways den one of bein' buried alive.
With my absurdly dismal face gazing outward, I repeated the question to myself, which nurse Gwen had refused to answer; "What is it to be buried alive?
I expressed my deepest sympathy for her sufferings in the best Latin I could muster, and indeed I was well able to sympathise with her, for did not I feel what it was to be buried alive and to endure the gnawing pangs of hunger?
The man of whom I bought it spoke the truth then--when he said that it had been found where the vestal virgins used to be buried alive.
If you do not at once take steps, the Senate and the whole Roman people will be buried alive by cock-sparrows.
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