What is "disinter"

Usage examples of "disinter".

Disinterred from the priory of Saint Marcel, his body was secretly delivered to Heloise at the Paraclete, where after more than twenty years of mourning she died and lay in the ground beside him.

The day after he was shot, a party of Shans from Mongpawn disinterred, or rather lifted, the corpse from its shallow grave, and shook off the loose earth.

Beyond the reach of shrill necessities the dead phone disinters another source of power.

In 1924, the epigones disinterred the letter from the archives and flung it at the party, three-quarters of which at that time consisted of new members.

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased.

The seared leaves and cockled animal skins stacked in the disinterred coffin told some strange and possibly tragic tale, as did his collection of books.

The voice further said that they were to return to Babylon, and, conformably to the decrees of fate, disinter the writings buried at Sippara in order to transmit them to men.

Is it not by chance that the unfortunate child was disinterred under the trees?

Workmen were now carrying the newly disinterred pieces from the ground to a table beneath the canvas.

When that fairy mansion was first disinterred from the earth they found in the garden the shell of a tortoise that had been its inmate.

It was then arranged that all the parties should meet again next day to identify, if possible, the body, which had been disinterred for that purpose.

When the party met on the 22nd at the Potter's Field, where the body had been disinterred and laid out, the doctor present was unable to find the distinctive marks which would show Perry and Pitezel to have been the same man.

Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street opening almost directly upon the palace of the Tuileries.

As to the companions of Xisuthros, they came to Babylon, disinterred the writings left at Sippara, founded numerous cities, built temples, and restored Babylon.

The two policemen who constituted the civil force of Gylingden, two justices of the peace, the doctor, and a crowd of amateurs, among whom I rank myself, were grouped in the dismal gorge, a little to windward of the dead body, which fate had brought to light, while three men were now employed in cautiously disinterring it.