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"Everything, from beginning to end absolutely everything. Why, I answered the gate-bell I always answer the gate-bell here," said the Capuchin. "What, in Heaven's name, has the gate-bell to do with the unburied corpse in your house?" "Listen, son of mine, and you shall know.

The little shepherd-boy, Findelkind who was a little boy five hundred years ago, remember," added the priest "was sorely disturbed and distressed to see those poor dead souls in the snow winter after winter, and to see the blanched bones lie on the bare earth unburied when summer melted the snow. It made him unhappy, very unhappy; and what could he do, he a little boy keeping sheep?

Some of the khakies had fallen from the high cliffs, where they had to lie unburied like the soldiers on Amajuba in 1881. We led our horses to the opening of the kloof, and then galloped into camp under the thundering noise of the shells that the enemy were firing at us from the distance. There was no control possible among the burghers.

Doubtless she saw the light mists hovering like ghosts, or the restless shades of the unburied dead, over the shining expanse before her, and the filmy vapours that veiled the brightness of the stars, but she had ceased to question the heavenly bodies about the time. What did she care for the progress of the hours, since the constellation of Charles's Wain showed her that it was past midnight?

'I hope you will remain with me till I am quite dead it is a comfort to know someone is by; but when I am dying, it is my wish that you should place the pistol in my right hand, and that you leave me unburied as I lie. Doubtless he thought of King's weak state, and wished to spare him the labour of digging a grave.

Others, however, argued that if this were done it would be a very difficult thing to get rid of so large a dead body, which might cause a pestilence to break out if it lay long unburied so near the city.

In the belief that Faraj was dead, Aziz was proclaimed his successor, but three months later Faraj was restored, and it was not until 1412 that he was charged with illegal practices and beheaded, his body being left unburied like that of a common malefactor.

The dead lay unburied, and each man as he recognized a friend among them shuddered with grief and horror; while the living whom they were leaving behind, wounded or sick, were to the living far more shocking than the dead, and more to be pitied than those who had perished.

Sick and dying men called to him from dark doorways, children and women begged for bread, carcasses lay unburied, vultures hovering above them his tireless efforts had not been sufficient to cope with the daily horrors of the siege. But there was no sign of hostility to him.

Would that we were able by the expression of our sentiments and by our votes to wipe away the tears of all these persons; or that any such oration as this could be publicly addressed to them, to cause them to lay aside their grief and mourning, and to rejoice rather, that, while many various kinds of death impend over men, the most honourable kind of all has fallen to the lot of their friends; and that they are not unburied, nor deserted; though even that fate, when incurred for one's country, is not accounted miserable; nor burnt with equable obsequies in scattered graves, but entombed in honourable sepulchres, and honoured with public offerings; and with a building which will be an altar of their valour to ensure the recollection of eternal ages.