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  • The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive.
  • According to bury circumstance judgement, put possibly inside circumjacent bigger range in more and dinosaurian fossil, disentomb foreground is very hopeful.
  • Bodies lay all around, partially or completely entombed in the debris.
  • I know that there is some stiff competition in the house and I will have to be at my most erudite and witty best to get one over on some of these lads and lasses I will be entombed with.
  • The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
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  • They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
  • They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.
  • A mountain rescue mission yesterday took off for Iceland to recover wreckage from a bomber plane which entombed four men in ice for more than 60 years.
  • To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Twenty five years ago, the nebulous gas entombing the dying star at the centre was not hot enough to glow.
  • The body is buried or entombed in a brick or concrete structure.
  • The town's cemetery is packed to overflowing, and unless families can pay the requisite sum for eternal entombment, bodies are evicted after five years.
  • There was a "god" called Attis who was born on December 25th of a virgin birth, entombed and resurrected! Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • We reach deep into the entombed secrets of our soul, dare to pull on those threads that originate in forbidden desires, and dance in disguise with the abandon of bacchantes. Nor certitude, nor peace
  • Everyone who is interred, entombed or inurned deserves a place in the Association's permanent records as well as a memorial.
  • John's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness.
  • The Lord of Ucupe-as locals have come to call the entombed Moche leader-was in his early thirties when he died, Bourget said. National Geographic News
  • It would hunt down the one that had entombed it, that had left it for dead, thinking that it would be consumed by the fire.
  • Most English translations give "entomb" for "begraben," but I've been struck by the way the English word "engrave" includes the same root. Philocrites: January 2003 Archives
  • We have found a place, not far, where we can entomb the Doctor's body.
  • a straw, and lent his aid right willingly to disentomb and carry the brandy keg. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
  • Intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of the myriad creatures that once inhabited the oceans, it seems poised to wrench itself free from the stone that entombs it.
  • He was completely entombed in the concrete, but we made a hole in the concrete and shone a torch in and he grabbed the torch.
  • Some support for this is seen in entombed trunks where individual trees have been partially buried and the trunk forms an expanded bole at the top of the new sediment surface.
  • There was an apotheosis in which all three figures were shown entombed, enshrined, mummified together but not entwined.
  • As for the posh, all-service Hyatt in which they are entombed (or incarcerated, according to Bob), however, this hotel could be in any of the world's major cities.
  • It follows claims earlier this year that parental fears over child safety already meant many young people were becoming "entombed" in the home instead of being allowed to play outside. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
  • Since there was no body to entomb there is no shrine to him to which pilgrims can repair.
  • It stands 36 metres wide by nine metres high and is intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of creatures that once inhabited the oceans, all seemingly poised to wrench themselves free from the stone that entombs them.
  • The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids
  • The disentombed paganism continued to ferment and rot the hearts of the people till in the next century it burst forth in the deluge of unbridled passions that marked the Reformation. The Young Priest's Keepsake
  • Protocols such as CORBA, OLE, ALSP, HLA and DIS [1] are changing the face of computing, making it much easier to link programs and databases, and access and correlate information that was previously "entombed" within its legacy application. Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance
  • About 100,000 people gathered to see the Pope's body make its solemn journey from the Vatican's Apostolic Palace to his local church, St Peter's, where it will be entombed alongside popes from throughout history.
  • As many as 1 000 people were dead, entombed in collapsed buildings.
  • Burns' body was entombed at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • A triptych representing shallow boxes glowing orange and located high in a blue field, it evokes both birth and entombment.
  • Then one day Usher announced to his friend that Madeline was ‘no more,’ and that he intended to entomb her body in the house's dungeon rather than bury it.
  • The tree of heaven opposite the church of Saints Peter and Paul was still entombed deep inside its branches but the faintest yellow-green fuzz had begun to blur the outline of willows on the banks of the River Vistula.
  • The art historian Sydney Freedberg thinks that Parmigianino had fully explored a certain style in the painting, so that it was "embalmed" or "entombed" and he didn't want to return to it. James Elkins: Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings
  • There is an element of _stiacciato_ in the Entombment, giving it the air of a mystery rather than of an historical fact. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
  • Here, sonic blasts from the past are entombed in a hodgepodge of vinyl records, compact discs and reel-to-reel tapes.
  • Schoolchildren are in danger of being 'entombed' in the classroom, MPs have said. The Latest From www.politics.co.uk
  • There are even a few secular historians who believe that Jesus' body was eaten by dogs, and that his acolytes fabricated the story of a reverential entombment as a sort of coping mechanism.
  • On the other hand, his evil repute has been wildly exaggerated by careless journalists and their local informants, who seek to embellish their limited acquaintance with a "desperado"; with the result that the real man has been virtually entombed by tale and legend which since his death has petrified as myth. An Epic of the Everglades
  • _Ferondo, having swallowed a certain powder, is entombed for dead and being taken forth of the sepulchre by the abbot, who enjoyeth his wife the while, is put in prison and given to believe that he is in purgatory; after which, being raised up again, he reareth for his own a child begotten of the abbot on his wife_ 169 The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Their grim task is given urgency by the knowledge that some 250 firefighters and police officers are entombed in the wreckage.
  • Here, sonic blasts from the past are entombed in a hodgepodge of vinyl records, compact discs and reel-to-reel tapes.
  • The remains of Henry VIII and the beheaded Charles I are entombed there, along with the bodies of the Queen's parents, George VI and the Queen Mother.
  • The earth was equally pitiless towards the dead in their graves: the sepulchers opened, and the buried were disentombed.
  • What such a passage of literature would be to us, the journal of to-day may be to some long distant age, when it is disentombed from the crumbling corner-stone of some Astor House, Exchange, or Trinity Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
  • Sistine chapel, to deposit it in the Capella Paolina, another chapel in the Vatican; — a ceremony emblematical of the entombment of the Pictures from Italy
  • Many miners were entombed in the cave when there was an accident at the mine.
  • With the decision to entomb four Fukushima reactors in concrete, Tokyo Electric TEPCO is moving the disaster into uncharted waters. Marvin Resnikoff: Fukushima 2.0
  • A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathized with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies. The World of Ice
  • Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit -- the scene of the labors of M. Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of M.sopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
  • Mount Vernon is yet sacred, and may be regarded as not only the entombing place of our first and greatest national chief, but as an enshrinement in hallowed memories of all who under him fought and bled in vindication of freedom's holy cause. God Seen Above All National Calamities
  • So many fossil links have been disentombed that he has had to alter the whole classification, and has placed certain Pachyderms in the same sub-order with ruminants.
  • He was also one of the first American paleontologists to draw attention to taphonomic processes: the environments of death, decay, burial, and entombment.
  • To destroy an image of the Gods protecting a burial site was to evoke the wrath not only of the God, but of the dead entombed there.
  • They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.
  • They would bury the entire nuclear power plant in asphalt and "entomb" it in place. Nuclear Power will not solve the Problem of Global Warming
  • Such changes must be slow, for the changes in the universe are very slow; but just as these slow changes become important, when we look at results after long periods of action, as we do when we perceive the alterations of the earth's surface during geological epochs; so the parallel changes in animal form become more and more striking, in proportion as the time they have been going on is great; as we see when we compare our living animals with those which we disentomb from each successively older geological formation. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
  • The Tel, an artificial mountain, entombs Jericho's ancient past.
  • The barley grew up undisturbed till the month was accomplished, and, at the expiration of that time, hundreds of people thronged to be present at the disentombing of the fakeer.
  • PLUS DON'T MISS San Telmo Market | Browse this flea market for high-class bric-a-brac. mercadodesantelmo.com Recoleta Cemetery | Grand old families and military heroes lie entombed in mini pantheons of every imaginable architectural style. Buenos Aires
  • The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
  • On 5 October 1999 remains were disentombed from a mausoleum crypt in Ohio.
  • The Tel, an artificial mountain, entombs Jericho's ancient past.
  • Personally I do not believe that our countrymen are buried beneath white tombstones in Normandy or entombed in the USS Arizona so that we can apply the law unevenly or shred the Constitution. CNN Poll: Do Americans want Sotomayor confirmed?
  • This particular horsedrawn vehicle lay neglected for decades before being disentombed from its dark hiding place in 1996.
  • Not that I bear him a grudge, much, for he was a jolly little teetotum, bursting with good intentions, and you may say it wasn't his fault that they paved my road to Hell - which lay at the bottom of a salt-mine, and it's only by the grace of God that I ain't there yet, entombed in everlasting rock. Watershed
  • Even making allowance for the wonderful labors of the Germans and the extraordinary addition which their learned toils have made to our knowledge of the subject, we should say that the work before us has almost disentombed many portions of Greek life. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
  • The mortal remains of the Prince and his next of kin and fellow exiles were then disentombed and returned to their homeland to be reburied in worthy graves.
  • Likewise the ground, the concrete, which did not cleave to devour or entomb him.
  • One phrase reads: Velθina hinθa cape muni-cle-t masu = "Velthina below (hinθa) was entombed (masu) with the sarcophagus (cape) in this plot (muni-cle-t). Pyrgi Tablets and the burial of the sun
  • This resurrection of ancient mysteries reminds me of your latest maturation, a sort of a dusting off and animation of mummified aspects of your personality that you entombed years ago.
  • In the final scene, sulfur-hued powder flurried down on the group, resulting in a ghostly entombment.
  • The invariable response, when you tell a child that the celebrities have been submerged in mud and entombed with rats, is ‘Why?’
  • This statement, along with a raft of other utterances Rothko made over the years, has given rise to an art critics 'cottage industry: lending narrative interpretations -- from nativities to entombments -- to his paintings. Darkness Into Light
  • Our dead are too easily disentombed by entrepreneurial politicians. Grant Brooke, M.Div.: Hindsight: Burying the Ghost of Ground Zero
  • It would hunt down the one that had entombed it, that had left it for dead, thinking that it would be consumed by the fire.
  • They were often mummified - and, sometimes, mice were also entombed with the cats, to keep them well-fed on their metaphorical journey to the next world.
  • Self-important, condescending, Casaubon hopes that Dorothea will carry on his work after his death, “the lonely labor, the ambition breathing hardly under the pressure of self-distrust,” even though it would entomb her. Archive 2009-12-01
  • And his defpifed name entomb'd In dark oblivion lie i The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ...
  • In an especially eerie sequence, her body is entombed in the Usher vault on a lonely island nearby.
  • Felicity to the putrid, Bronze Age admonitions of a savage sky spirit involving the ownership of desert real-estate only entombs the heart and mummifies the mind. OpEdNews
  • Even the expertly mummified tend to smell bad, so doesn't it make sense that the bodies were entombed with perfumes?
  • The costs of the ultimate disposal project also are sure to rise, with no plan in sight to replace the now-canceled plan to entomb the waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Nuclear-Waste Costs Go Critical
  • The defenders were forced back into their tunnels, where ferocious close-quarter battles went on until the Chinese blew in the entrances, entombing the defenders alive.
  • Most of the martyrs entombed at the site died in the Korean struggle against Japanese occupation prior to 1945, and are honoured with an immense, pristinely maintained cemetery.
  • On Monday the company announced an effort called Frustration-Free Packaging that seeks to put an end to “wrap rage,” the condition of buying a product and then finding it is entombed in indestructible plastic or permanently trapped in unbreakable wire fasteners. Amazon.com Cuts Packaging to Combat ‘Wrap Rage’ - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  • The tree of heaven opposite the church of Saints Peter and Paul was still entombed deep inside its branches but the faintest yellow-green fuzz had begun to blur the outline of willows on the banks of the River Vistula.
  • Removing coins entombed in deformed coin holders is a challenge. Fire Damaged Coins Conserved : Coin Collecting News
  • Another Eden is over there, wrapping around mysterious veil, await people to disentomb.
  • At length, after being lost for more than two thousand years, the city was disentombed.
  • Bhishma is entombed in a perpetual brahmacharya ashrama, the first of the four stages in a human being's life.
  • What you had always done was to entomb your inner personal centre within the constricting straitjacket of certain words and formulae.
  • Schoolchildren are in danger of being 'entombed' in the classroom, Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
  • On descending from the tower, we passed through storehouses filled with broken remains of figures, capitals, plinths, and other fragments disentombed from the Forum, etc. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
  • It's either that or their entombment in the glass case in a museum, heroic monuments to ‘the modern movement’ being carefully protected from too much light.
  • The same method, it is understood, has been applied to the deciphering of the cuneiform records recently disentombed from the ruins of Nineveh.
  • We have to disentomb the remains of the Thebes and the Ninevehs to get at the history of their ancient monarchs.
  • This mammoth was disentombed during the great thaw of the summer. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880
  • Some of the earlier burials were disentombed and reburied in the new site, but many were left in unmarked graves.
  • Worlds of fine thinking lie buried in that vast abyss, never to be disentombed or restored to human admiration. Shandygaff
  • Likewise the ground, the concrete, which did not cleave to devour or entomb him.
  • Removing coins entombed in deformed coin holders is a challenge. Fire Damaged Coins Conserved : Coin Collecting News
  • Bollywoods Most Wanted barefeet blogger in the soul of a sculpted rock indigenous like entombed neither this nor that a pedestrian poet he bloomed tryst with destiny capsized and doomed bejeweled moments sartorial spirituality packaged costumed link after link on a facebook mushroomed a twittering tragedy a madman of mumbai assumed words words more words enwombed from his deadwood body after his death as poetic testimony of ill fate exhumed posthumously phantasmagorically perfumed Archive 2009-10-01
  • The solution is entombment in the deep sediments of abyssal plains in the oceans that now cover 71 percent of the planet.
  • When he died, his body was entombed at Junagadh in Gujarat, which thereafter became an important pilgrimage destination for Indian Sidhis.
  • Actively engaging the spectator, it neither mirrors nor entombs the viewer.
  • Forum of Rome should have been thus disentombed at the very time that Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
  • Sixty five men and boys were entombed in the mine.
  • Rubble then crashed through the floors, entombing the three workers on the ground floor.
  • Their passage through the rock tunnel was quicker on the return trip for they were confident of their way and feared no pitfalls hidden in the gloomy darkness, and they were impelled by a sense of entrapment and a growing fear of entombment.
  • Close to Rumeilah stands the first Iron Age construction, disentombed on a large scale in the UAE.
  • A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies.
  • A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies. The World of Ice
  • Oh! would to God that we might disentomb the spirit of the Past as easily as her records! Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
  • And I didn't want my thesis to be entombed on some library shelf.
  • The result was literally overwhelming, for in a moment he was almost buried in snow, to the unutterable delight of his sister, who stood screaming with laughter as the unfortunate boy struggled to disentomb himself. Silver Lake
  • After a decade of further triumphs, he moved to Paris; but after Italy became a national state, his body, too, was ceremoniously entombed in Santa Croce.
  • If the Temple of the Sun is geometrical perfection, the Temple of the Condor, where mummified bodies were entombed, is its dynamic, artistic counterpart.
  • On the 27th of June it was "disentombed" from what many supposed was its final resting place. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
  • Inside the strongbox were the stolen secrets of the Meddlers: the answers he’d been seeking since he’d woken, devoid of memory, in an entombed city months before. End of Time
  • The topmost cave appears to have entombed high-ranking individuals.
  • I leaned over with breathless anxiety while the Indians worked, and an eye, an ear, a foot, or a hand was disentombed.
  • Next thing you know, you're entombed in 136 tons of garbage and burrowing through your house via a system of intricate tunnels.
  • Burns' body was entombed at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • The Lord of Ucupe, as locals have come to call the entombed Moche leader, was in his early thirties when he died. Zee News : India National
  • After several months disentombing, 500 pieces of culture relics were discovered in about 2,000 square meters.
  • They were often mummified - and, sometimes, mice were also entombed with the cats, to keep them well-fed on their metaphorical journey to the next world.
  • Around the ghastly sloth-bear, disentombed from his burrows in the gloomiest woods of Mysore or The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832
  • Beneath the imposing hillside memorial, which overlooks the inner harbour, two unidentified bodies of the tanker's crewmen have been entombed.
  • The tiny animals became entombed in the fossilised tree resin some 52m years ago, before the Indian subcontinent crunched into Asia to produce the Himalayan mountain range. Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul
  • Most English translations give "entomb" for "begraben," but I've been struck by the way the English word "engrave" includes the same root. Philocrites: January 2003 Archives
  • Deep troughs do precede these monster waves, swallowing ships as they careen into the trough and are entombed by thousands of tons of water from the breaking wave.
  • Relief workers ended by covering the area with lime, entombing the dead in the remains of their homes.
  • The name must derive however from a word used for "burial" or "entombment" built on the verb mas since its participle form masu is found twice in the Cippus Perusinus CPer A.xiv, A.xvii. Pyrgi Tablets and the burial of the sun
  • The hypothesis that Babylon was ruled by an Aryan dynasty was strictly contradicted by Berosus and the records disentombed from the ruins.

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