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Example sentences for "human skeleton"

  • It was found alongside of a human skeleton, in a rudely-vaulted chamber in a large tumulus on the shore of Broadford Bay, Isle of Skye.

  • In Cross Low, near Parwich,[491] a fragment of a celt and a small piece of chipped flint were with a human skeleton in a cist; and a kind of flint axe or tomahawk is reported to have been similarly found in a barrow near Pickering.

  • Near the center and 3 feet from the top of the mound were the much decayed remains of a human skeleton, lying on its back, in a very rude stone-slab coffin.

  • At the depth of 31 feet was a human skeleton, lying prostrate, head north, which had evidently been enclosed in a coffin or wrapping of elm bark.

  • Extended at full length at the bottom of the pit was a human skeleton, with the head to the west.

  • In it were fragments of rude pottery, pieces of charcoal, broken bones, and a human skeleton having a small, round and very thick skull.

  • Dowler to have found some charcoal and a human skeleton, the cranium of which is said to belong to the aboriginal type of the Red Indian race.

  • On its removal to make way for some additions to the Abbey, it was found to contain a cist nearly seven feet long, enclosing a human skeleton.

  • It contained only the greatly decayed remains of a human skeleton, but in the superincumbent soil were found many bones, and the teeth of the horse and cow, also in a state of decay.

  • Fragmentary remains of a human skeleton: the mandible is the best preserved portion; unfortunately the front part has been broken off so that no conclusion can be formed as to the characters of the chin.

  • In 1910, Colonel Willoughby Verner discovered several fragments of a human skeleton in a cave in the Serrania de Ronda.

  • About thirty feet below this mound was found, some years ago, a number of flat stories set on edge, forming a kind of coffin, in which was a human skeleton, accompanied by a large marine shell and some rude implements.

  • In this layer of charcoal was found a human skeleton, much decayed, the skull and jaws crushed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dark purplish; gradually increasing; human association; human authority; human blood; human bones; human creatures; human culture; human face; human figures; human flesh; human history; human intelligence; human invention; human life; human love; human passion; human progress; human prudence; human remains; human skull; human souls; human wants; marine shells; religious wars; three hundred and thirty