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Avalanche Buries 100 Pakistani Soldiers Avalanche Buries 100 Pakistani Soldiers ISLAMABAD—An avalanche smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border on Saturday, burying about 100 soldiers, the military said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2012

She nestles over the shining rim, Buries her chin in the creamy sea; Her tail hangs loose; each drowsy paw Is doubled under each bending knee.

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

Upon this he makes a Grave, and lays his Mother into it, and Buries her.

From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Tufail, Ibn

Buries us with a glory, young once more, Pouring heaven into this shut house of life.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

The big-swoln inundation, Of mischief more diffusive, raving loud, Buries whole tracts of country, threatening more; But that too has its shore it cannot pass.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George