Where earthquakes prevail, and the levels of a country are changed from time to time, the remains of animals may more easily be inhumed and protected from disintegration.
Jones[74] quotes one of the older writers, as follows, regarding the Natchez tribe: Among the Natchez the dead were either inhumed or placed in tombs.
They were inhumed below the floor of the cave; inhumed, and not lodged in catacombs.
Natchez tribe: "Among the Natchez the dead were either inhumed or placed in tombs.
They were inhumed below the floor of the cave, inhumed, and not lodged in catacombs.
As to Bankei--the funeral rites had been performed, the sutra read, the body inhumed in the same mound with those of Kakunai and the horse.
Bankei had this inhumed in the ground behind the main hall of the temple.
Is his soul ground down with compunction by recollecting the inhumed Neville, doomed by him and his rebel partizans to shelter with the dead.
The infectious diseases which at various periods arose from this custom, induced Theodosius, in his celebrated code, strictly to prohibit it; and he even ordered that the remains of the dead thus inhumed should be removed out of Rome.
The early Christians inhumed the bodies of their martyrs in their temples.
The steward of Count Simon Labienski, starost of Posnania, being dead, the Countess Dowager de Labienski wished, from gratitude for his services, to have him inhumed in the vault of the lords of that family.
St. Denis is considerable only for its stately cathedral, and the dormitory of the French kings, thereinhumed as ours at Westminster Abbey.
They had a neat chapel, in which the heart of the Duke of Cleves, their founder, lies inhumed under a plate of brass.
He was buried privately, by moonlight; but his remains were disinterred by the Revolutionists within a month afterward, and the papers inhumed with him revealed the names of associates, some of whom were afterward guillotined.
The bones of the American prisoners who had perished on board the Jersey and other British prison ships at New York during the revolutionary war, solemnly inhumed in a vault erected at the Wallabout.
This cemetery had been used more than a thousand years by twenty parishes, and it is estimated that more than three millions of people had been inhumed within its inclosures.
It is true, there are instances in which the position and nature of the animals clearly prove that they were inhumed by some sudden catastrophe.
Others are inhumed in the very act of swallowing their prey, and in every easy and natural position; indicating that they expired without violence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhumed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
