place of interment

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A field was to be, during forty years, a place of interment: then the field adjacent was to be taken for that purpose; and so on with others in rotation.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

The remains were interred in a burial lot of Jacob Traber, who generously tendered its use until a separate place of interment and a monument could be procured.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Unlike the solemn pace of our own age and nation, four bearers, who are frequently relieved, carry the defunct, almost on a run, to the place of interment.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

For hundreds of years, Paris had but one place of interment, the Cemetery des Innocens.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

When he arrived at the place of interment, he was so weakened by starvation himself, that he was unable to put a little covering of clay upon the coffins to protect them.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John