inhumation
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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
The difficulties of inhumation are capable of such variety as causes us already to foresee that the Necrophorus cannot employ fixed methods in performing his task.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Skeletons are sometimes found, in tolerably perfect condition, after an inhumation of two hundred years.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
At supper, after the inhumation, a mutual esteem had sprung up that rapidly ripened into love.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various
They extend their parental supervision even to the family interior, every relation of life regulated by fixed laws, and even after death the inhumation must be conducted the forms and with the precautions prescribed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
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