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Definition of Intombing
1. intomb [v] - See also: intomb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intombing
Literary usage of Intombing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"When therefore the ceremony of intombing was over, Pericles passed through the
crowd to a lofty stand raised for the occasion, so that he might be heard by ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"... intombing the shell-fish that adhered to or rested upon these fragments, and
arresting by their initial softness the various sunk woods a:id such other ..."
3. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson (1884)
"... at the intombing the body ; aud at night there was an exhibition at a publick
window of a coffin, and several insignia of infamy; and at this exhibition ..."
4. A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest Records by Elroy McKendree Avery, William Abbatt (1908)
"So inflamed was party feeling that "a large mob attended upon his interment and
hurrahed at the intombing of his body, and that night there was an ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1812)
"The intombing of Christ. Ludov. Caracci. This picture displays an union of grandeur
and simplicity ; and in the drawing and composition is equal to most of ..."
6. Delia by Samuel Daniel, Henry Constable (1896)
"When re-intombing from oblivious ages In better stanzas her surviving wonder, I
may opposed against the monster rage That part desert and excellence asunder ..."
7. The Queens of England and Their Times: From Matilda, Queen of William the by Francis Lancelott (1858)
"... quies, and with a sorrowing heart superintended the intombing of his mother
in the church of ..."
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