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Definition of Inurns
1. inurn [v] - See also: inurn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inurns
Literary usage of Inurns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1849)
"... of injured Constance shone, Who to the glittering circlet gav'st a lustre not
its own,— Thou canst recall those lovely forms the faded Past inurns; ..."
2. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"Hence the practice of delivering obituary eulogies over the illustrious dead,
and the splendid mausoleums in which the gratitude of their fellow-men inurns ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"... Whom all as Scotia's minstrel know f And who may touch that garland bright
Laid on the proud turf that inurns Whatever died of ROBERT BURNS ? ..."
4. A Treasury of Canadian Verse: With Brief Biographical Notes by Theodore Harding Rand (1900)
"... the sunlight ever turns; In her cool beams my burning eyes I steep— Oh, that
my spirit thus may rest in sleep When my pale ashes mother Earth inurns ! ..."
5. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1899)
"... or to inurns, in this passage, I do not understand. We know nothing of any
relations either between ..."
6. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1843)
"And there the sire, as the plough turns Some warlike relic from the sod, Whose
mould the battle-ranks inurns, That few, but fearless, " blood-shod strode," ..."
7. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1844)
"And there the sire, as the plough turns Some warlike relic from the sod, Whose
mould the battle-ranks inurns, That few, but fearless, " blood-shod strode," ..."
8. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1873)
"And there the sire, as the plough turns Some warlike relic from the sod, Whose
mould the battle-ranks inurns, That few, but fearless, " blood-shod strode," ..."
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