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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

For to-day I must give battle, Ere descending night, the golden Sunbeams of expiring day Buries in the dark green ocean.

From Life Is a Dream by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

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

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

Each frugal heir, to make the gift suffice, Buries the talent to manure the vice.”

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose