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Example sentences for "exhume"

Lexicographically close words:
exhorters; exhorteth; exhorting; exhorts; exhumation; exhumed; exhuming; exige; exigeant; exigence
  1. Innumerable clews were thus obtained to bring to trial those who failed to accuse themselves, and to exhume and burn the bones of those who were beyond the ability to recant.

  2. I exhume a larva which is working at its gallery of exit.

  3. In the spiritual sphere the Church had long been accustomed to pass judgement on those who had passed to the judgement-seat of God, and to exhume the remains of any heretic buried in consecrated ground.

  4. Thus aiming, and thus symbolizing your labors, your objects to resuscitate and exhume from the dust of by-gone years, some of those deeds of valor and renown which marked this hardy and vigorous race.

  5. And though now, for some two thousand years, men have set themselves furiously to exhume the sarcophagi and the treasures that are buried here, the subterranean reserves are not yet exhausted.

  6. Besides, it was not our custom to exhume the bodies of those who had been buried.

  7. Revolving missiles rush through the heavens to break and burn upon the bill, to ransack it and exhume the old bones of men; and the thundering flames multiply themselves along an even line.

  8. The streaming plain, seamed and seared with long parallel canals and scooped into water-holes, is an immensity, and these castaways who strive to exhume themselves from it are legion.

  9. If the relatives are too poor to afford the expenses incident to cremation, they bury the body, but exhume it for burning when their financial condition permits.

  10. I exhume that article from a very honest and innocent book--the Annuaire historique et universel by M.

  11. Did it not exhume you from the pit, where hitherto you had buried your capacities, and reveal them to the public?

  12. To exhume nearly seventeen hundred women from oblivion, classify them, and set forth their distinguished traits of character, was indeed an herculean labor.

  13. The curé of the village was the first to arrive on the scene; but as no one had any authority to exhume the body the coffin was not taken up.

  14. It is stated that application has been made to the Home Secretary for permission to exhume the body.

  15. We shall be empowered to exhume the body of the late Sir Frank Narcombe in a few days' time, I hope.


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