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"No!" said William, fiercely, "we take no gold for a traitor's body; no, not if Githa, the usurper's mother, offered us its weight in the shining metal; unburied be the Accursed of the Church, and let the birds of prey feed their young with his carcase!"
In the forest great fallen tree trunks, as well as dead leaves, decay, and only add a little to the layer of dark vegetable mold from which they grew. The bones of land animals are, for the most part, left unburied on the surface and are soon destroyed by chemical agencies.
But when poor old Priam, grieving that his son’s corpse should lie unburied, thus hindering his shade from being at rest, came forth at night, in disguise, to beg it from Achilles, the hero received the old man most kindly, wept at the thought of his own old father Peleus, fed and warmed him, and sent home the body of Hector most honourably. Here ends the Iliad.
I have not with my own eyes seen a Frenchman or an Englishman unless he was a prisoner. It is not so much pleasure fighting like this." I might have told the young Bavarian lieutenant of other places where I had been places where the dead lay for days unburied. I might have told him there was nothing particularly pretty or particularly edifying about the process of being killed.
At Bickley Hall, taken down a few years ago, used to be shown the room where the body of the Earl of Leicester was laid for a whole twelvemonth, 1659 to 1660, he having been kept unburied all that time, owing to a dispute which of his heirs should pay his funeral expenses. November 5th. We all, together with Mr. Squarey, went to Chester last Sunday, and attended the cathedral service.
"The Jersey never left her anchorage at the Wallabout, whether from decrepitude, or the intolerable burden of woes and wrongs accumulated in her wretched hulk, but sank slowly down at last into the subjacent ooze, as if to hide her shame from human sight, and more than forty years after my father pointed out to me at low tide huge remnants of her unburied skeleton.
"There is none here to do you harm, if you be innocent; and if you be guilty, your escape is quite cut off. Speak, what do you here among the graves of the dead and the remains of the unburied?" "You no murderer?" inquired Secundra. "You true man? you see me safe?" "I will see you safe, if you be innocent," returned Sir William. "I have said the thing, and I see not wherefore you should doubt it."
Eleven of these victims were afterward deposited, uncoffined, in unconsecrated ground; the other seven were left unburied to moulder on the gibbet. On the 2d June, Villars, the leader in the Daalem rising, suffered on the scaffold, with three others. On the 3d, Counts Egmont and Horn were brought in a carriage from Ghent to Brussels, guarded by ten companies of infantry and one of cavalry.
=Burial=: the Greeks believed that so long as the corpse remained unburied the spirit would roam about restlessly in the dreary under-world or common abode of departed souls. =Augury=: omen or sign. =Libations=: wine or liquor poured out on the ground or on a victim in honor of the gods. =Sesame=: an Eastern plant from whose seeds an oil is obtained, which is used for food and other purposes.
Unburied men change into this sort of vampire, just as Elpenor, in the Odyssey, threatens, if unburied, to become mischievous. It appears that the two Gaunabs are differently pronounced. However that may be, a race which worships an insect might well worship a dead medicine-man.
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