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Pericles had lately delivered his great funeral oration at the public interment of soldiers who had fallen for Athens.

It is said to have been founded by St Augustine outside the walls with a view to his own interment there since it was not the Roman custom, as we know, to bury the dead within the walls of a city.

In the meanwhile the curses and imprecations of the people were poured upon the devoted head of Gushtásp on account of his cruel and unnatural conduct, so that he was obliged to confine himself to his palace till after the interment of Isfendiyár.

Your object should be to make the proceedings to-morrow merely formal, so that the Coroner can issue his order for interment, and then adjourn for further evidence.

When he died in 1881, an offer of interment in Westminster Abbey was declined and he was laid beside his parents in the graveyard at Ecclefechan.

June 28th he declined to sign a memorial asking for the interment of Mr Spottiswoode in Westminster Abbey, stating as his reason, "I take it, that interment possessing such a public character is a public recognition of benefits, political, literary, or philosophical, whose effects will be great and durable.

June 28th he declined to sign a memorial asking for the interment of Mr Spottiswoode in Westminster Abbey, stating as his reason, "I take it, that interment possessing such a public character is a public recognition of benefits, political, literary, or philosophical, whose effects will be great and durable.

During his exile a fresh interment took place in this island cemetery, that of his last canine favourite, the poor 'Chevalier de Perlinpinpin,' who, after vainly fretting for his absent master, died at last of sheer grief and loneliness.

It provides for many of us from birth to burialmidwifery, nursery, education, board and lodging, vaccination, medical attendance, medicine, public worship, amusements, and interment.

* Piero de' Medici died on 3rd December 1469, and his interment, which was conducted with marked simplicity, in accordance with his will, was completed that same evening.

In the year 1665, that part of the ground now called Bunhill (originally Bonhill) Field, was set apart as a common cemetery, for the interment of such bodies as could not have room in their parochial burial-grounds in that dreadful year of pestilence.

The subject was the body of the virgin borne for interment by four apostles.

It has been stated that the corpses were left in the streets for the hogs to eat, but the cure of Caborca assured me that he had a trench dug and gave them Christian interment.

Sometime before interment, a piece of money was put into the corpse's mouth, which was thought to be Charon's fare for wafting the departed soul over the infernal river.

Twelve youths of noblest birth Did bear him to interment; the whole army Follow'd the bier.

His body was soon afterward carried to Boston and deposited beneath St. Paul's Church; but the final interment took place at Stonington.

he at length recollected, that in the forest which surrounded his mansion, dwelt an aged hermit, at whose cell the corpse might remain till its interment: he could then enjoy the sad pleasure of visiting daily the object of all his solicitude, and he determined to found on the spot an abbey, in which a number of monks should pray for ever for the soul of the lovely and injured Guilliadun.

These sepulchres were usually places of family interment, but sometimes they were solitary tombs.

I conceive it to have been the offering and assassination of Abel by his brother Cain; the escape of the murderer; the discovery of the body by his disconsolate parents, and its subsequent interment, under a certain belief of its final resurrection from the dead, and of the detection and punishment of Cain by divine vengeance.

Place of Interment.

The interment of his remains was attended by several thousands of all ranks, professions, and parties, who united in deploring their loss.

The captain on seeing the body, when he rose, expressed no concern, but ordered it to be knocked out of irons, and to be buried at the usual place of interment for seamen, or Bonny Point.

There, however, was no coffin; the procession had sojourned at a country inn by the wayhad rested the body on a dykestarted without itand had to postpone the interment until next day.

A farmer, at the interment of his second wife, exercised a liberal hospitality to his friends at the inn near the church.

Six starved horses, themselves the very emblems of mortality, well cloaked and plumed, lugging along the hearse with its dismal emblazonry, crept in slow pace towards the place of interment, preceded by Jamie Duff, an idiot, who, with weepers and cravat made of white paper, attended on every funeral, and followed by six mourning coaches filled with the company."Guy

internment 17 occurrences

Vessels designated for internment shall be ready to leave German ports within seven days upon direction by wireless.

For, imprisonment or internment of the Khalif in his own capital will be not only a mockery of fulfilment but it would he adding injury to insult.

It is probable that the money was sent home again, or forwarded officially to the new place of internment, and this takes a long time.

When the internment camp was opened a hundred prisoners applied for treatment daily; many had suffered great privations previous to their capture.

Our captor, an unctuous, pink-cheeked politzei, made his appearance not far from the internment camp.

*** A German prisoner named BOLDT has escaped from Leigh internment camp.

At the same time that the body is being fitted for internment, the squaws having immediate care of it, together with all the other squaws in the neighborhood, keep up a continued chant or dirge, the dismal cadence of which may, when the congregation of women is large, be heard for quite a long distance.

*** Several parties of Germans who escaped from internment camps have been recaptured with comparative ease.

It will be seen how worry, deceptions, mortification, and the outrages with which he was overwhelmed by the cynical wits of the press combined to drive him to that degree of madness which necessitated his internment in Healthful House.

When Mr. King asked him to be more careful about interning alien friends without trial, since he (Mr. King) had just heard of the great reception accorded in Petrograd to one Trotsky on his release from internment, Sir George Cave replied that he was sorry he had never heard of Trotsky.

The weight of suspicion had been so strong against Veronica that nothing could stand against it; her internment had been ordered by the agents of the government.

They were now awaiting the arrival of the internment papers from Washington; when these came she would be taken away.

It was not too late yet to save Veronica from internment.

We were informed, however, that the delay in releasing Charles the First from internment was due to the necessity of repairing sundry damages to his fabric, due, I understand, not to Zeppelins or Gothas, but to the corroding tooth of Time.

Time stood still; my internment in England, 1914-1918.

Time stood still; my internment in England, 1914-1918.

If the Germans should get us, the least that would happen to me would be internment until the end of the war.

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