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Definition of Exhumes
1. exhume [v] - See also: exhume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhumes
Literary usage of Exhumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Advanced Text-book of Geology Descriptive and Industrial by David Page (1876)
"As in tracing the history of our own race, the archaeologist exhumes buried cities
and catacombs, collects objects of human art, deciphers monumental ..."
2. Advanced text-book of geology, descriptive and industrial: Descriptive by David Page (1867)
"In tracing the history of our own race, the archaeologist exhumes buried cities
and catacombs, collects objects of human art, deciphers monumental ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"Suffice it to say that the archaeologist is only safe when he exhumes, in person,
steatite pipes from graves, and finds other objects, either under like ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"... is only safe when he exhumes, in person, steatite pipes from graves, and finds
other objects, either under like circumstances, or sees them plowed up on ..."
5. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"I am no man to stir up old claims against the federal government; and, I detest
the trade which exhumes such claims ..."
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