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Definition of Intombs
1. intomb [v] - See also: intomb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intombs
Literary usage of Intombs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"This wretch in earth intombs his golden ore, Hov'ring and brooding on his buried
store. Some patriot fools topop'lar praise aspire, 730 Or public speeches, ..."
2. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville Dorset, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Nicholas Udall, John Lyly, Robert Greene (1917)
"Thou man of blood, thou sepulchre of death, Whose marble breast intombs * my
bowels quick, Did I not charge thee, nay, entreat thy hand, Even for my sake, ..."
3. The Works of Virgil by Virgil, John Carey, Knightly Chetwood (1803)
"This wretch in earth intombs his golden ore, Hov'ring and brooding on his bury'd
store. Some patriot fools to pop'lar praise aspire 730 Of public speeches, ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1817)
"... than is the law which intombs a man for life : the creditor and the nation
received a benefit from the labour of the debtor when he worked for his ..."
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