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entomb

[en-toom] / ɛnˈtum /


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This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Gr�newald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony.

From Time Magazine Archive

Entomb, en-tōōm′, v.t. to place in a tomb: to bury.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Entomb them first, my faith next, then my integrity, And let these struggle with your mangy minds, Your sear'd, and seal'd up Consciences, till they burst.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Beaumont, Francis

Entomb me where our chiefs are laid; But, hark, methinks I hear the drum, I would that holy man were come.”—Harris.

From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George

I would that as the corporal Past they cover, They would, at earnest bidding of the will, Entomb in walls of darkness and devour The hated retrospections of the mind.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)




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