Use bury in a sentence
Sentences starting with bury
- Bury her according to the customs of your church; we have come to arrange the earthly possessions she leaves behind. [10]
Short sentences using bury
- Who should we bury, Sir? [12]
Sentences containing bury two or more times
- It took a power of sand to bury that cretur; most as much as it would to bury a steamboat, I reckon. [5]
- They have resources of life, they can bury themselves in their ambitions good or bad, but a woman can only bury herself in her affections, unless her heart has been closed; and in that case she herself has lost much of what made her adorable. [11]
More example sentences with the word bury in them
- It is quite within the possibilities that, a century hence, people would wonder and say, "How did your predecessors come to bury their great dead in this deserted place? [5]
- When the great winds and rains come down from the hills, do not let the floods drown us, nor the woods cover us, nor the snow-slide bury us; and do not let the prairie-fires burn us. [11]
- My little possessions, which were intended for you and Irene, you will now use to bury me. [10]
- So the service-corps were coming at last to take up the wounded and bury the dead. [11]
- In those days we were not content to embalm the thing and bury it decently, we wanted to build a monument over it. [5]
- Then came a truce to bury the dead, to bring back what was left of the living. [9]
- I am willing to bury my abhorrence of a relic of barbarism, for the sake of union and peace. [9]
- At the same time he exacted of his people an oath that when they journeyed to the land of Canaan they would bear his bones with them and bury them in the ancient inheritance of his fathers. [5]
- Very well, he thought, let them bury it there; it won't be hard to find. [5]
- Good, thought Huck, they will bury it in the old quarry. [5]
- Huck said: "Do they always bury it as deep as this? [5]
- To publish it there will be to bury it. [5]
- If not that, then the people would bury Olivier Delagarde as a patriot. [11]
- In this case their conduct is not much worse than that of the North American Indians, who leave their feeble comrades to perish on the plains; or the Fijians, who, when their parents get old, or fall ill, bury them alive. [1]
- Shall we bury the hatchet and be good friends and respect each other's little secrets, on condition that I vote Aye on the measure? [5]
- Somebody has said that in order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony. [5]
- I could not tell, but I know from the sound that they are to bury something. [11]
- After you have taken off the saddle and bridle, Abel, bury him just as he is. [6]
- Is this dismal superstition to overwhelm and bury the world and all that is bright and beautiful, as the lava stream rolled over the cities of Vesuvius? [10]
- They watched the sun begin to bury its red curve under the dark horizon. [13]
- Falling out about something, Machumps slew Namontack, and having made a hole to bury him, because it was too short he cut off his legs and laid them by him. [4]
- Tell the people so, and I will take you home, and I will bury you with your fathers," said Fielding. [11]
- As a favor, she might consent to warm a flock of sparrows for you, but then she might take that very opportunity to turn herself loose and bury a city. [5]
- There was instant shading of brightness about him, and he saw a kind of cold purple bloom creep ahead of him to cross the canyon, to mount the opposite slope and chase and darken and bury the last golden flare of sunlight. [13]
- He began by riding thirty miles and back to ask the young clergyman at Purple Hill to come and bury Blanche. [11]
- The man doesn't really die; he changes his name and vanishes; we bury a dummy, and cry over it, with all the world to help. [5]
- They most always put in a dead man when they bury a treasure under a tree, to look out for it. [5]
- It had been proposed by the Admiral of the station to bury him from his old ship, the Imperturbable, but the Royal Court made its claim, and so his body had lain in state in the Cohue Royale. [11]
- It is your own inmost self that is your enemy; bury yourself in what desert you will, it will pursue you, and it would be easier for you to cut off your shadow than to leave that behind? [10]
- They're takin' her over Eden way, to bury her where she come from. [4]
- Margery, Margery, I ought to hide and bury it in my soul; so he bid me, and nevertheless. [10]
- He tapped his old wife on the cheek, and said humorously, "Why, we're rich, Mary, rich; all we've got to do is to bury the money and burn the papers. [5]
- The boundless vastness of the great American desert is my enclosed property, and I bury my dead on my own premises! [5]
- In the crevices of Cyclopean walls, --in the dust where men lie, dust also,--on the mounds that bury huge cities, the wreck of Nineveh and the Babel-heap,--still that same sweet prayer and benediction. [6]
- Though I was now speaking to Justine Caron, I heard him say quite calmly and firmly: "Yes, I preach, baptise, marry, and bury, and do all I can for those who need help. [11]
- Perhaps he might not even gain permission to bury her! [10]
- What did I not bury in her grave! [10]
- We want it no more than you, who, when the coffer is full, bury it or hide it with the rest. [10]
- Her poor heart must be like a graveyard, for she was doomed to bury what she held dearest. [10]
- If he's been murdered and buried, they wouldn't bury him deep, it ain't likely, and if the dog goes over the spot he'll scent him, sure. [5]
- The first instinctive movement of the little creatures is to make a cache, and bury in it beliefs, doubts, dreams, hopes, and terrors. [6]
- They did not like to kill and bury at random, here and there and everywhere. [5]
- The Bible says: 'Let the dead bury their dead. [10]
- May the waters leave their courses to drown you, and the hills their bases to bury you, and no hand lay you in decent graves! [11]
- Part with the land you have, and, my life upon it, you will never after own a spot big enough to bury you in. [7]
- The Isle of Jersey, ever stubbornly loyal to its own--even those whom the outside world contemned or cast aside--jealous of its dignity even with the dead, had come to bury Philip d'Avranche with all good ceremony. [11]
- They always bury it under a ha'nted house or on an island, or under a dead tree that's got one limb sticking out. [5]
- We bury decay in the earth; we plant in it the perishing; we feed it with offensive refuse: but nothing grows out of it that is not clean; it gives us back life and beauty for our rubbish. [4]
- I bury myself in it up to the ears. [5]
- Then Jehu went in and sat down to dinner; and presently he said, Go and bury this cursed woman, for she is a King's daughter. [5]
- What a wretched idea to go and bury themselves in the steppes when the French army is in Moscow. [2]
- And then, because I knew not what else more fitting, I added: "Sleep, and "'Let the dead past bury its dead. [11]
- I hoped that I had been able to bury it, even in memory, but I was wrong. [11]
- His room is hung round with cases of them, each impaled on a pin driven through him, something as they used to bury suicides. [6]
- They didn't bury him--they planted one end, and let him stand up, same as a monument. [5]
- He could bury himself, or he could come alive--it was all the same to them. [11]
- When she heard her husband sigh and saw him bury his face in his hands, she limped nearer to him, difficult as it was for her to move, and stroked his head, now nearly bald, with her hand. [10]
- I thought I heard Dan say, "That Arab's friends ought to keep him in alcohol or else take him out and bury him somewhere. [5]
- There even could he not part, but joined us in the steamboat; and, after bearing us company as far as a boat could follow us, at last tore himself away, to bury himself in Paris, and try to work . [4]
- Well, you will have a great sleep, the good people will find you, they will bury you, weeping much, and no one knows here but me. [11]
- All morning she had longed to go out into the woods and bury herself among the ferns and bracken, and laugh and weep for very excess of feeling, downright joy and vague woe possessing her at once. [11]
- They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in. [5]
- The great guns firing make the day a burden, the nights are ever fretted by the dangers of surprise, and there is scarce time to bury the dead whom sickness and the sword destroy. [11]
- Several who had died of the pestilence, and whom it had been impossible to bury by day, were being borne to the grave together. [10]
- Out in the desert did we bury our gold, We buried it where no man robbed us, for his arm was strong. [11]
- Ravenna has been dead for some centuries; and because nobody has cared to bury it, its ancient monuments are yet above ground. [4]
- You'll see, we'll capture captains and generals, and we'll cut their heads off and bury them in their own guts. [11]
- Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy! [2]
- Now I must bury the animal, and if you will you can help me. [10]
- I would rather bury myself in the mud of the Thames than let him touch me. [11]
- I go to bury myself at a solitary little seaside place" (it was Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire), "there to live alone with Rosalie and Charley, and if I do not know them hereafter, never ask me to write for 'Harper's' again. [11]
- Women's wages can't be expected to do more than feed and clothe 'em, as a gineral thing, with a little savin', in case of sickness, and to bury 'em, if they break daown, as all of 'em are liable to do at any time. [6]
- Can't I go away from here, run away, bury myself somewhere? [2]
- Nobody pays any attention to that sort of fireworks down to the capital, and if they was to get into committee them Northeastern Railroads fellers'd bury 'em deeper than the bottom of Salem pond. [9]
- Pray for them and bury them as well as those who, in obedience to their duty and their commander, took their lives. [10]
- And you preach, and baptise; and marry, and bury, and care for the poor and--ah, what is it?--'all those who, in this transitory life, are in sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity'? [11]
- I bury it all, and so must you. [11]
- It can, in accordance with its own choice in the matter, burn, bury, or preserve members who are pretending to be dead--whereas there is no such thing as death. [5]
- A squirrel in a cage who pats the nuts which it cannot eat, as if to bury them in the ground, can hardly be thought to act thus, either from pleasure or pain. [1]
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