Early stage of a time capsule project

Usage examples of burial.

But, if the victims of Tiberius and Nero anticipated the decree of the prince or senate, their courage and despatch were recompensed by the applause of the public, the decent honors of burial, and the validity of their testaments.

I had blundered onto a hidden loculus in that tomb, and found a burial no one else had.

Kirk agreed, and fell into a thoughtful silence as he considered the simple burial ceremony that he had conducted for Maslin on the shores of that silver sea.

If the synagogue knew nothing of this burial, no Jew in the Mellah would be found so poor that he would have need to know more.

We knew now that some terrible extension of the camp horrors must have crawled into this nighted burial place of the aeons, hence could not doubt any longer the existence of nameless conditions--present or at least recent just ahead.

I was less a partaker of their ploys and banquets, either at birth, bridal, or burial.

It was fitting and moving to hear Quinton read the burial service over the intercom while Ainslie and the bridge lookouts did the rest.

In attempting to discredit the testimony of Elliott and Heys, who said no signs of burial were evident at Galley Hill, Oakley and Montagu offered several arguments in addition to their chemical and radiometric tests.

Out of lead and tin, he fashioned hollow images of nude men, filled them with earth collected from the center and four corners of France, inscribed the foreheads with the names of King Edward or one of his captains, and, when the constellations were right, buried them face down while he recited spells to the effect that this was perpetual expulsion, annihilation, and burial of the said King, captains, and all adherents.

Watson of the University of London said the completeness of the skeleton found by Reck clearly indicated it was a recent burial.

In the middle of the month, after a fifth trooper had died to a grief-stricken warrior, Scapula ordered that the executed natives should be denied their burial rites and their bodies hung instead outside the steadings as a warning.

Down the beach, Soli whistled to his dogs, a reminder that soon the forest would be dark, that we had no time for burials.

Jesus with the spikenard, an unguent that had, very likely, been kept for that specific occasion, and was an ointment associated with burial rites.

Not a stiver in his pockets, nor as much as a sleeve-link to help pay for the burial.

The holographic tomb robbers, having trashed the burial chamber, were now approaching the open sarcophagus itself.