incremation
Example Sentences
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The same full-moon that watched the white-robed throng busied with the rites of incremation in a grove of palms, beheld also the seven dragons contending for the body of Marcobad.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
May we not calculate with tolerable certainty on his return, and his incremation?
From Run to Earth A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Mr. Willard described to me a scene of incremation that be once witnessed which was frightful for its exhibitions of fanatic frenzy and infatuation.
From An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
The incremation of this text-book is made by the entire class, who appear in fantastic rig and in torch-light procession.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Enough of these,—now for an incremation: would that, Hindoo like, I could consume with them the memory to which they have been wedded!
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
