Burying Sentence Examples

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  • We'll spend two hours burying supplies - no more.

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  • He scraped sand over the scorpion, burying it from her view.

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  • Burying her face in her hands, she let the sobs rule.

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  • T in the Park T in the Park 2006 I'm burying the hatchet with The Ordinary Boy's.

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  • At the most basic level, you can compost by simply burying kitchen scraps in your garden.

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  • Snow had blown onto the road from nearby fields creating snowdrifts up to 1m high burying cars.

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  • The seed is now set; usually it is thoroughly mixed with a relatively large quantity of fine ashes, sand or meal, to facilitate thin and even sowing, and the surface of the bed is afterwards lightly brushed over with a broom; it is very important to avoid burying the seed at all deeply; a light covering of cloth or muslin, raised on short sticks, is often stretched over the bed.

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  • In fact, compliance with the Christian practice of inhumation in the cemeteries sanctioned by the church, was only enforced in Europe by capitularies denouncing the punishment of death on those who persisted in burying their dead after the pagan fashion or in the pagan mounds.

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  • Persian nobles brought to Rome as prisoners, they devoted themselves to looking after imprisoned Christians and burying the relics of the martyrs.

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  • A stalagmite floor there is 36 inches thick; it rests on coarse fill burying an earlier stalagmite.

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  • An unwilling witness to pirates burying a mysterious chest.

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  • This has the whiff of previous scandals about ' burying bad news '.

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  • Burying your feelings may result in the feelings coming out later, oftentimes inappropriately and at inopportune times.

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  • Work backwards toward the backsplash, burying the cut tile at the back.

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  • Women wear ragged, dirty clothing and then dance on through to a prayer for help which includes removing the filthy garments and burying them.

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  • Burying someone with creatures or even fellow humans was, and still is, part of China's cultural heritage.

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  • But don't let the word "plastic" fool you -- they can be just as beautiful, secure and strong as traditional wooden or metal caskets, and obviously much nicer than burying your pet in an old shoe box!

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  • If it a larger animal who died, such as a dog or cat, you may want to look into burying it in a pet cemetery.

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  • If you are thinking of burying your pet in your backyard, check with your local municipality for laws governing pet burial on residential property.

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  • In attempting to "remove" the demons from his wife, he ended up killing her and burying her body in a nearby forest.

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  • This is because tongue piercings are prone to swelling, and the longer barbell accommodates this swelling without burying the jewelry beneath the swelling.

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  • The key to revealing a toned tummy is to burn off the blubber burying your 6 pack.

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  • Burying Jonathan left Clark alone with his mother and marked the end of his journey as a boy and the beginning of his life as a man.

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  • His body was the nearest available leaning post, so she helped herself, burying her face in his chest.

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  • Jenn sensed the next vamp charge her and spun, burying her knife in the neck of the nearest before she lashed out with a kick at the next.

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  • I thought you'd be happy I spared him instead of burying him with the others.

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  • He'd seen from burying his brother that a king's greatest weakness was the woman at his side.

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  • Burying his face in her hair, he inhaled deeply.

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  • She caught up to him at the door, surprising him with the quiet of her bare feet on the carpet and gave him a hug from behind, burying her head against his back and holding on for a long while.

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  • The man reached down with one hand and pulled his partner to a standing position and nudged Dean forward all in one motion, burying his gun in the detective's side.

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  • She'd work on burying her emotions again, this time deeper than before.

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  • There she finally gave up and sat down, burying her face in her hands.

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  • During the sojourn in Botany Bay the crew had to perform the painful duty of burying a comrade - a seaman named Forby Sutherland, who was in all probability the first British subject whose body was committed to Australian soil.

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  • Honour is shown to an adult when he dies, by wrapping him in a cloth and placing him on a platform in a tree instead of burying him.

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  • On Congress Street, below the Observatory, is the Eastern Cemetery, the oldest burying ground of the city; in it are the graves of Commodore Edward Preble, and of Captain Samuel Blythe (1784-1813) and Captain William Burroughs (1785-1813), who were killed in the engagement between the British brig "Boxer" and the American brig "Enterprise," their respective ships, off this coast on the 5th of September 1813.

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  • Some of the scavengers, like the burying beetles, inter the bodies of small vertebrates to supply food for themselves and their larvae, or, like the "sacred" beetle of Egypt, collect for the same purpose stores of dung.

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  • By the rain wash and wind action detritus from the mountains is carried to these valley floors, raising their level, and often burying low mountain spurs, so as to cause neighbouring valleys to coalesce.

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  • Three cemeteries remain intact - King's chapel burying ground, with the graves of John Winthrop and John Cotton; the Old Granary burial ground in the heart of the city, where Samuel Sewall, the parents of Franklin, John Hancock, James Otis and Samuel Adams are buried; and Copp's Hill burial ground, containing the tombs of the Mathers.

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  • Agriculture, pottery, weaving, the domestication of animals, the burying of the dead in dolmens, and the rearing of megalithic monuments are the typical developments of man during this stage.

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  • To delay him and obtain escape, Medea dismembered her young brother Absyrtus, whom she had taken with her, and cast his limbs about in the sea for his father to pick up. Her plan succeeded, and while Aeetes was burying the remains of his son at Tomi, Jason and Medea escaped.

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  • The whole interior of Greenland is completely covered by the so-called inland ice, an enormous glacier forming a regular shield-shaped expanse of snow and glacier ice, and burying all valleys and mountains far below its surface.

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  • The materials on the coast were clay and gravel wrought into concrete, sun-dried bricks and pise, or rammed work, cut stalks of plants formed with clay a kind of staff, and lintels were made by burying stems of cana brava (Gynerium saccharoides) in blocks of pise.

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  • Burying Ground to Fairmount Cemetery and placed in a large vault marked by a monument.

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  • Wallenstein was interred at the neighbouring Carthusian monastery, but in 1639 the head and right hand were taken by General Baner to Sweden, and in 1702 the other remains were removed by Count Vincent of Waldstein to his hereditary burying ground at Miinchengratz.

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  • There is very little doubt that they lived at the bottom of the sea, feeding upon worms or other soft marine organisms, crawling slowly about the sandy or muddy bottom and burying themselves beneath its surface when danger threatened.

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  • He hastened back to Stockholm, after burying his father, summoned a Riksdag, which met at Arboga on the 15th of April 1561, and adopted the royal propositions known as the Arboga articles, considerably curtailing the authority of the royal dukes, John and Charles, in their respective provinces.

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  • A portion of the consecrated Bread from one Eucharist, known as the " Fermentum," was long made use of in the next, or sent by the bishop to the various churches of his city, no doubt with the object of emphasizing, the solidarity and the continuity of " the one Eucharist "; and amongst other customs which prevailed for some centuries, from the 8th onward, were those of giving it to the newly ordained in order that they might communicate themselves, and of burying it in or under the altar-slab of a newly consecrated church.

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  • Was not the duty of following the Messiah to supersede even that of burying one's parents, the most sacred of all ancient obligations?

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  • In 1576, when Milan was visited by the plague, he went about giving directions for accommodating the sick and burying the dead, avoiding no danger and sparing no expense.

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  • On a bluff projecting into South river is the old "Burying Point," set apart in 1637, and the oldest cemetery in the city; its oldest stone is dated 1673; here are buried Governor Simon Bradstreet, Chief-Justice Benjamin Lynde (1666-1745) and Judge John Hathorne (1641-1717) of the witchcraft court.

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  • They brought with them iron, which they used for their long swords and for their cutting implements; the costume of both sexes was distinct from that of the Pelasgians; they used round shields with a central boss instead of the 8-shaped or rectangular shields of the latter; they fastened their garments with brooches, and burned their dead instead of burying them as did the Pelasgians.

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  • In Scandinavia a custom, alluded to in the sagas, of burying the viking in his ship, drawn up on land, and raising a barrow over it, is exemplified by the ship-burials discovered in Norway.

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  • He revived the name Ch'ao-Hsien, changed the capital from Song-do to Seoul, organized an administrative system, which with some modifications continued till 1895, and exists partially still, carried out vigorous reforms, disestablished Buddhism, made merit in Chinese literary examinations the basis of appointment to office, made Confucianism the state religion, abolished human sacrifices and the burying of old men alive, and introduced that Confucian system of education, polity, and social order which has dominated Korea for five centuries.

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  • The motive of the story has been variously regarded as a desire to insist upon the duty of tithe-paying, upon that of almsgiving, and upon that of burying the dead.

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  • It is the opinion of almost all who have studied the subject that any natural bed may in time be destroyed by overfishing (perhaps not by removing all the oysters, but by breaking up the colonies, and delivering over the territory which they once occupied to other kinds of animals), by burying the breeding oysters, by covering up the projections suitable for the reception of spat, and by breaking down, through the action of heavy dredges, the ridges which are especially fitted to be seats of the colonies.'

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  • The pagan custom of burying lamps with the dead conveyed no such symbolical meaning as was implied in the late Christian custom of placing lights on and about the tombs of martyrs and saints.

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  • He made an effort to destroy the memory of the sage from off the earth, consigning to the flames all the ancient books from which he drew his rules and examples, (save one), and burying alive hundreds of scholars who were ready to swear by his name.

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  • The awn is also of use in burying the fruit in the soil.

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  • Wycliffe was a metaphysician and a theologian, and had to invent a metaphysical theory - the theory of Dominium - to enable him to transfer, in a way satisfactory to himself, the powers and privileges of the church to his company of poor Christians; but his followers were content to allege that a church which held large landed possessions, collected tithes greedily and took money from starving peasants for baptizing, burying and praying, could not be the church of Christ and his apostles.

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  • This bread is made by burying the materials for months, till the mass is thoroughly fermented and homogeneous, when it is dug up and cooked by baking or steaming.

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  • He discovered that heat is evolved when iron filings and sulphur are rubbed together to a paste with water, and the artificial volcan de Lemery was produced by burying underground a considerable quantity of this mixture, which he regarded as a potent agent in the causation of volcanic action.

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  • I like the idea of burying the supplies, but I don't think the Indians would be fooled if we buried everything – even if we could.

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  • He then ate the food and climbed the hill before burying himself in the warm bosom of Ffyona Campbell or some such blond.

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  • Uncontrolled burning or burying of farm wastes is no longer permitted.

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  • He suspected this was as a result of farmers burying carcasses.

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  • Aitken was equally emphatic, burying the kick to the keeper's right.

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  • By burying human waste, there is also an increased risk of polluting the groundwater.

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  • I was reminded of a young vicar burying an elderly parishioner whom he had never actually met.

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  • A stalagmite floor there is 36 inches thick; it rests on coarse fill burying an earlier stalagmite floor there is 36 inches thick; it rests on coarse fill burying an earlier stalagmite.

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  • I like the idea of burying the supplies, but I don't think the Indians would be fooled if we buried everything – even if we could.

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  • Jackson drew Elisabeth close, burying his nose in her hair.

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  • I have given up all idea of burying myself in Egypt or Italy.

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  • Xander lowered his head, burying his teeth into Charles' throat.

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