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  • Where his pectoral muscles should be, he has a breast weighed down with the words of human beings: by words interred, free-as-a-bird absurd, unheard!†   (source)
  • Where is she interred?†   (source)
  • The limited vista now opening before him wag extremely unpleasant: six weeks of life which he would spend suffering with his broken bones and renewing his acquaintance with Misery Chastain, n,e Carmichael, followed by a hasty interment in the back yard.†   (source)
  • In a professional tone, he offered Idris his condolences, and had him sign the Interment Order and Authorization form.†   (source)
  • Theevil that mendoo lives after them, The goodisoft interred with their bones; ….†   (source)
  • Until that time the eminent dead were interred under the flagstones in the churches, in the exclusive vicinity of archbishops and capitulars, while the less wealthy were buried in the patios of convents.†   (source)
  • Cocooned in silence, interred by the white hard cold of winter, and unable to move.†   (source)
  • When they finished interring their casualties, the Varden retrieved their arrows, then built a pyre in the center of the village, stripped the soldiers of their gear, dragged them onto the pile of wood, and set it ablaze.†   (source)
  • It gave him dark solace, planning the details of his interment.†   (source)
  • They looked a long time for an area of earth among the rock faces large enough for the interment.†   (source)
  • Interment in the National Cemetery seemed fitting for the young man known universally as a "Marine's Marine."†   (source)
  • Shortly after the death and memorable interment of Pedro Garcia, Blanca began to lose her apple-colored freshness and to suffer from a natural fatigue that was not the result of holding her breath and from morning nausea that was not the result of drinking heated brine.†   (source)
  • She lingered on for only a few weeks after she arrived, then was interred here.†   (source)
  • There was no time to waste, because by Ethiopian tradition, no one eats till the body is interred.†   (source)
  • Immediately after the church service, I want a quick interment—five minutes max—then lower the casket.†   (source)
  • Washington had been interred in the family vault at Mount Vernon, but this was the nation's funeral for its first President and greatest hero.†   (source)
  • He might at least have waited till Father's bones were interred beneath the Rock.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 25, 1963, the same day that John F. Kennedy was interred at Arlington.†   (source)
  • I watched yesterday, as she was interred in one of the two small cemeteries in town.†   (source)
  • The woman would find him in the morning, not a soul would show up for his burial, and he would be interred far from his parents, in a nameless grave in the wet and rotten soil of an island in the lagoon.†   (source)
  • As our procession wound its way to the distant grave site I feared that my two beloveds were going to be interred in a golf course.†   (source)
  • And I remembered how intensely I felt about my interment.†   (source)
  • Weeks passed, then months, and though death took its steady toll, therewere no customers rich enough to afford glass interment.†   (source)
  • Fred fidgeted through movies, but Fred would wiggle through his own interment.†   (source)
  • Their gaze is overcome with awe, Nor is their panic hard to fathom: The gardens leave their boundary walls, The laws that govern the earth are shaken— A god is being interred.†   (source)
  • Interment at Mary Cyr Cemetery on March 21st at 4.†   (source)
  • In London lies a knight a Pope interred.†   (source)
  • 'In London lies a knight a Pope interred.'†   (source)
  • In London lies a knight A. Pope interred.†   (source)
  • In London lies a knight a Pope interred.†   (source)
  • In London lies a knight a Pope interred.†   (source)
  • In London lies a knight a Pope interred.†   (source)
  • In London lies a knight a Pope interred.†   (source)
  • In London lies a knight a Pope interred.†   (source)
  • He wondered what the database would have to say about "a knight a Pope interred."†   (source)
  • As Roran listened, his gaze lit upon the anonymous mound where the three soldiers had been interred.†   (source)
  • "His bones should be interred beneath the Rock, in the Hall of Heroes," Lady Genna declared.†   (source)
  • He was interred in a mausoleum in Manchester.†   (source)
  • She added: "It is appropriate that Rene will be interred very near to the Iwo Jima monument.†   (source)
  • By Mrs. Griffen's wish the funeral service will be private, with interment of the ashes at the Chase family monument in Mount Hope Cemetery.†   (source)
  • Four days following the interment, an elderly womannamed Mrs. Soames — Mrs. Rainage knew her slightly — had observed something white lying on the ground of the Congregational church's cemetery as she entered it to put flowers on the grave of her husband, who had died the previous winter.†   (source)
  • How about a knight a Pope interred?†   (source)
  • Even so, the Teacher could not help but suspect that the solution would be ingeniously clean and simple—"a knight a pope interred."†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of the notorious Templar round-up in 1307—unlucky Friday the thirteenth—when Pope Clement killed and interred hundreds of Knights Templar.†   (source)
  • A knight a Pope interred?†   (source)
  • A knight a Pope interred.†   (source)
  • 'Our job is to make them understand that the Cereal Professor will never rest easy unless he's interred in broad daylight.†   (source)
  • Had Ned ever reached Winterfell, to be interred beside his brother Brandon in the dark crypts beneath the castle?†   (source)
  • All I knew was that I wanted to be with Hema when she interred Shiva's ashes between Ghosh and Sister Mary Joseph Praise.†   (source)
  • Immediately after the church service, I want a quick interment—five minutes max—then lower the casket.†   (source)
  • Twenty-five minutes after he started, he dismissed them with the invitation to walk next door to the cemetery for the interment.†   (source)
  • The sound echoed through the transepts and crypts and chapels, as if the dead interred within the walls were laughing too.†   (source)
  • When, Jesus, I embrace Thy feet As I support them on my knees It may be that I am learning to embrace The squared beam of the Cross And, bereft of my senses, am straining for Thy body As I prepare Thee for Thy interment.†   (source)
  • Successful, however, as the system proved itself in practice, there was something so distasteful in the last rites as now performed that the Prefect felt constrained to forbid relations of the deceased being present at the actual interment.†   (source)
  • …visitor to leave a brief note of his case and informed him they would decide on it in due course; the triflers, who offered him billeting warrants or gave the addresses of lodgings; the red-tape merchants, who made him fill up a form and promptly interred it in a file; overworked officials, who raised their arms to heaven, and much-harassed officials who simply looked away; and, finally, the traditionalists-these were by far the greatest number-who referred Rambert to another office or…†   (source)
  • Hour after hour the scene of the interment remained without an eye to witness it.†   (source)
  • Yes, yes, make your mind easy, he shall be decently interred in the newest sack we can find.†   (source)
  • In the mean while the preparations were made for the interment of Hutter.†   (source)
  • A rough box was their coffin, and their interment was a dog's burial.†   (source)
  • Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby's interment.†   (source)
  • He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.†   (source)
  • It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble voices were heard calling from the well.†   (source)
  • The permission for interment must be exhibited.†   (source)
  • Judith had been present at the interment of her mother, but she had never visited the spot since.†   (source)
  • This is why the archdeacon was not interred in consecrated earth.†   (source)
  • He was again interred, and a sentinel set over his grave.†   (source)
  • Then when he moved the light to the other parts of the picture he found an interment of Christ shown in the usual way, it was also a comparatively new painting.†   (source)
  • THE END OF SUMMER "No wind is stirring in the grass; not one wind stirs…. the water in the hidden pools, as glass, fronts the full moon and so inters the golden token in its icy mass," chanted Eleanor to the trees that skeletoned the body of the night.†   (source)
  • It may be that his frightened repentance of the night and morning had not eaten in, but this dehumanizing interment of her who had been so pathetically human shook him utterly, and as he crouched again on the high stool in the laboratory he swore faith to his wife …. to Zenith …. to business efficiency …. to the Boosters' Club …. to every faith of the Clan of Good Fellows.†   (source)
  • Then bethinking himself of possibilities he went along the road to the cemetery, which he entered, and crossed to where the interments had recently taken place.†   (source)
  • Will the interment take place here?†   (source)
  • The arrival of the body for interment (in an empty black box with the lid tumbling open), was the signal for a general joy, which was much enhanced by the discovery, among the bearers, of an individual obnoxious to identification.†   (source)
  • That afternoon all the dead were interred, the grave of Sergeant Dunham being dug in the centre of the glade, beneath the shade of a huge elm.†   (source)
  • He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.†   (source)
  • Tears came into Franz's eyes when he heard of the sad death of poor old Juno; and he inquired most tenderly whether her remains had been brought back, that they might be interred near the house which had been her home for so many years.†   (source)
  • A miserable human existence, once interred there; farewell light, air, life, ~ogni speranza~—every hope; it only came forth to the scaffold or the stake.†   (source)
  • The place of Catherine's interment, to the surprise of the villagers, was neither in the chapel under the carved monument of the Lintons, nor yet by the tombs of her own relations, outside.†   (source)
  • It was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over.†   (source)
  • The same grave expression of grief, the same rigid silence, and the same deference to the principal mourner, were observed around the place of interment as have been already described.†   (source)
  • I wished to leave immediately after the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who had come down to direct his sister's interment and settle the family affairs.†   (source)
  • It was on the obscure side of the tower, screened to a great extent from the view of passers along the road—a spot which until lately had been abandoned to heaps of stones and bushes of alder, but now it was cleared and made orderly for interments, by reason of the rapid filling of the ground elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Let him be interred in holy ground.†   (source)
  • The grave of this unfortunate man was the first place of human interment that the author ever beheld, as the smokehouse was the first ruin!†   (source)
  • Kings were my ancestors, strong in war and wise in council, who every day feasted in their hall more hundreds than thou canst number individual followers; whose names have been sung by minstrels, and their laws recorded by Wittenagemotes; whose bones were interred amid the prayers of saints, and over whose tombs minsters have been builded.†   (source)
  • I could not help thinking of the wild ritual of this work, and of its probable influence upon the hypochondriac, when, one evening, having informed me abruptly that the lady Madeline was no more, he stated his intention of preserving her corpse for a fortnight, (previously to its final interment,) in one of the numerous vaults within the main walls of the building.†   (source)
  • It got there in course of time; insisted on pouring into the burial-ground; finally, accomplished the interment of the deceased Roger Cly in its own way, and highly to its own satisfaction.†   (source)
  • The long and fruitless march which they had made under the direction of Abiram, the discovery of the body, and its subsequent interment, had so far consumed the day, that by the time their steps were retraced across the broad track of waste which lay between the grave of Asa and the rock, the sun had fallen far below his meridian altitude.†   (source)
  • Mr. Kirwin, on hearing this evidence, desired that I should be taken into the room where the body lay for interment, that it might be observed what effect the sight of it would produce upon me.†   (source)
  • He, no doubt, thought that prisoners who died in the Chateau d'If were interred in an ordinary burial-ground, and he conveyed the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the sack in which they had sewed up the corpse, and awaited the moment of interment."†   (source)
  • She died in the cottage of Mabel, on the shores of the lake; and Jasper conveyed her body to the island, where he interred it by the side of that of Arrowhead.†   (source)
  • Gamut, who had been a close observer of rites he deemed so heathenish, now bent his head over the shoulder of the unconscious father, whispering: "They move with the remains of thy child; shall we not follow, and see them interred with Christian burial?"†   (source)
  • It was done; I stirred up the ashes, and interred them under a shovelful of coals; and she mutely, and with a sense of intense injury, retired to her private apartment.†   (source)
  • The letter was signed Trabb & Co., and its contents were simply, that I was an honored sir, and that they begged to inform me that Mrs. J. Gargery had departed this life on Monday last at twenty minutes past six in the evening, and that my attendance was requested at the interment on Monday next at three o'clock in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • The two bodies were to be interred in the cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise, where M. de Villefort had long since had a tomb prepared for the reception of his family.†   (source)
  • That the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery.†   (source)
  • I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let, To Let, To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.†   (source)
  • Their looks were directed to that fatal point, where scarlet coats were still to be seen gliding among the trees, and where the magnifying power of the instrument also showed spades at work, and the sad duty of interment going on.†   (source)
  • He, no doubt, thought that prisoners who died in the Chateau d'If were interred in an ordinary burial-ground, and he conveyed the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the sack in which they had sewed up the corpse, and awaited the moment of interment."†   (source)
  • After the interment he returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived.†   (source)
  • …indifference to the memory of the deceased; for she had loved her mother, and bitterly had she found occasion to mourn her loss; but she was averse to the contemplation of death; and there had been passages in her own life since the day of that interment which increased this feeling, and rendered her, if possible, still more reluctant to approach the spot that contained the remains of one whose severe lessons of female morality and propriety had been deepened and rendered doubly…†   (source)
  • Judith had never visited the spot, but Hetty was present at the interment, and she often paddled a canoe, about sunset or by the light of the moon, to the place, and gazed down into the limpid water, in the hope of being able to catch a glimpse of the form that she had so tenderly loved from infancy to the sad hour of their parting.†   (source)
  • The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,— all had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch.†   (source)
  • Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the ferocities of which we have just spoken, the in pace, the closed mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of living souls.†   (source)
  • The soldiers, who had so lately been employed in interring their victims, were now called on to bury their own dead.†   (source)
  • He is condemned to that terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces a man to return slowly to earth,…†   (source)
  • Hist was serious, attentive and interested, for she had often seen the interments of the pale-faces, though never one that promised to be as peculiar as this; while the Delaware, though grave, and also observant, in his demeanor was stoical and calm.†   (source)
  • The prioress resumed:— "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in which she has slept for the last twenty years."†   (source)
  • That the nun who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of the chapel.†   (source)
  • They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,—permission to be interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged to their community.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there interred that ye pray so fast for?†   (source)
  • They lie buried together at Boston, where I some years since placed a marble over their grave, with this inscription: JOSIAH FRANKLIN, and ABIAH his Wife, lie here interred.†   (source)
  • Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke.†   (source)
  • SO at the interment came King Lot's wife Margawse with her four sons, Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth.†   (source)
  • All these came to the interment.†   (source)
  • Then said the king unto Sir Launcelot: It will be your worship that ye oversee that she be interred worshipfully.†   (source)
  • And then they departed and took their horses; and then they let carry the dead squire unto a priory, and there they interred him.†   (source)
  • And so upon the morn she was interred richly, and Sir Launcelot offered her mass-penny; and all the knights of the Table Round that were there at that time offered with Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • AND then the king let search all the towns for his knights that were slain, and interred them; and salved them with soft salves that so sore were wounded.†   (source)
  • And at the great instance of the knights of the Table Round, the king suffered him to be interred, and the mention made upon him, who slew him, and for what cause he was slain; and then the king and the queen made more of Sir Launcelot du Lake, and more he was cherished, than ever he was aforehand.†   (source)
  • Ye may not see him, said the king, for I caused him to be interred, and Sir Gaheris both; for I well understood that ye would make over-much sorrow, and the sight of Sir Gareth should have caused your double sorrow.†   (source)
  • Then Uther Pendragon turned him, and said in hearing of them all, I give him God's blessing and mine, and bid him pray for my soul, and righteously and worshipfully that he claim the crown, upon forfeiture of my blessing; and therewith he yielded up the ghost, and then was he interred as longed to a king.†   (source)
  • It was ascertained that the reference was to Mr Cornelius Kelleher, manager of Messrs H. J. O'Neill's popular funeral establishment, a personal friend of the defunct, who had been responsible for the carrying out of the interment arrangements.†   (source)
  • —This morning (Hynes put it in of course) the remains of the late Mr Patrick Dignam were removed from his residence, no 9 Newbridge Avenue, Sandymount, for interment in Glasnevin.†   (source)
  • A statement explanatory of his absence on the occasion of the interment of Mrs Mary Dedalus (born Goulding), 26 June 1903, vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag).†   (source)
  • He inserted his left hand into the left lower pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin (I shilling), placed there (presumably) on the occasion (17 October 1903) of the interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.†   (source)
  • Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (died 266 A.D.), suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there interred that ye pray so fast for?†   (source)
  • The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones: So let it be with Caesar.†   (source)
  • Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke.†   (source)
  • — Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load, Taken from Paul's to be interred there; And still, as you are weary of this weight, Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.†   (source)
  • …that though just now I said I was a licentiate, I am only a bachelor, and my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of Alcobendas, I come from the city of Baeza with eleven others, priests, the same who fled with the torches, and we are going to the city of Segovia accompanying a dead body which is in that litter, and is that of a gentleman who died in Baeza, where he was interred; and now, as I said, we are taking his bones to their burial-place, which is in Segovia, where he was born.†   (source)
  • The captain was now interred, and might, perhaps, have already made a large progress towards oblivion, had not the friendship of Mr Allworthy taken care to preserve his memory, by the following epitaph, which was written by a man of as great genius as integrity, and one who perfectly well knew the captain.†   (source)
  • And then they departed and took their horses; and then they let carry the dead squire unto a priory, and there they interred him.†   (source)
  • These were not the cats I had brought from the ship; they had been dead long before, and interred near my habitation by mine own hand.†   (source)
  • While they were journeying, the Holy Brotherhood entered the house; my lord the Inquisitor was interred in a handsome church, and Issachar's body was thrown upon a dunghill.†   (source)
  • The corpse had vanished, not interred in earth, But strewn with dust, as if by one who sought To avert the curse that haunts the unburied dead: Of hound or ravening jackal, not a sign.†   (source)
  • When the Bulgarians retired, my dear sister could not be found; but my mother, my father, and myself, with two maid-servants and three little boys all of whom had been slain, were put in a hearse, to be conveyed for interment to a chapel belonging to the Jesuits, within two leagues of our family seat.†   (source)
  • As we passed by the place where the two men had been interred, my man pointed directly to their graves, showing me the marks that he had made to find them again, giving me to understand, by signs, that we should dig them up, and devour them.†   (source)
  • SO at the interment came King Lot's wife Margawse with her four sons, Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth.†   (source)
  • Then said the king unto Sir Launcelot: It will be your worship that ye oversee that she be interred worshipfully.†   (source)
  • Being now under sail, we took our last farewell of poor honest Friday, and interred him with all possible decency and solemnity, putting him in a coffin, and committing him to the deep, at the same time cauling eleven guns to be fired at him.†   (source)
  • All these came to the interment.†   (source)
  • She was refused what people call the _honours of sepulture_—that is to say, of rotting with all the beggars of the neighbourhood in an ugly cemetery; she was interred all alone by her company at the corner of the Rue de Bourgogne, which ought to trouble her much, for she thought nobly.†   (source)
  • AND then the king let search all the towns for his knights that were slain, and interred them; and salved them with soft salves that so sore were wounded.†   (source)
  • The poor creature gave up the ghost the day after my discovery; & it being difficult to drag him out, I dug his gave, and honourably entombed him in the same place where is departed, with as much ceremony as any Welch goat that has been interred about the high mountain Penmanmawn.†   (source)
  • Then Uther Pendragon turned him, and said in hearing of them all, I give him God's blessing and mine, and bid him pray for my soul, and righteously and worshipfully that he claim the crown, upon forfeiture of my blessing; and therewith he yielded up the ghost, and then was he interred as longed to a king.†   (source)
  • And so upon the morn she was interred richly, and Sir Launcelot offered her mass-penny; and all the knights of the Table Round that were there at that time offered with Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • And at the great instance of the knights of the Table Round, the king suffered him to be interred, and the mention made upon him, who slew him, and for what cause he was slain; and then the king and the queen made more of Sir Launcelot du Lake, and more he was cherished, than ever he was aforehand.†   (source)
  • Ye may not see him, said the king, for I caused him to be interred, and Sir Gaheris both; for I well understood that ye would make over-much sorrow, and the sight of Sir Gareth should have caused your double sorrow.†   (source)
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  • First Lieutenant Louis S. Zamperini, holder of the national inter-scholastic mile record, is, listed as dead by the War Department …†   (source)
  • Tha was taken jus' after I got inter Hogwarts," Hagrid croaked.†   (source)
  • The only thing that was a little bit inter- esting was how many people got killed and hurt making the road.†   (source)
  • To crown it all he had taken two titles and had shown incredible prowess in two inter-tribal wars.†   (source)
  • Jason and his friends played it at inter-prep school field parties when scoping out girls.†   (source)
  • By analogy with IPL, Ender decided the letters meant Inter-Stellar Launch.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I'm thankful I don't have access to the inter-net like everyone else.†   (source)
  • The late winter inter-squad debates had fired George Hatfield's competitive soul.†   (source)
  • McLean Hospital INTER OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO Record Boom Date Jan 8.†   (source)
  • Farcaster records would solve every inter-world crime if the portals were true teleportation; the transport data record could have re-created the subject down to the last gram and follicle.†   (source)
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  • He realized he knew the man: Patrick Prendergast, a newspaper distributor employed by the Inter Ocean.†   (source)
  • There were seven improv comedy groups, nine swim teams—there had been an inter-staff meet last Wednesday, hundreds of swimmers participating, and a hundred messages were about the contest, who won, some glitch with the results and how a mediator would be on campus to settle any lingering questions or grievances.†   (source)
  • The chairman, Alfonse Stompanato, seemed to feel that one of the other instructors , a three-hundred-pound former rock 'n' roll bodyguard named Dimitrios Cotsakis, had established prior right by having flown to Memphis when the King died, interviewed members of the King's entourage and family, been inter viewed himself on local television as an Interpreter of the Phenomenon.†   (source)
  • You're inter-twined.†   (source)
  • She sighed and unhappily raised her eyes to see an inter-continental roar past on the E4.†   (source)
  • Inter-family communication must be an acquired skill.†   (source)
  • On November 18, Gail drafted an inter-office letter for the files.†   (source)
  • Aven swore and reached for her broadsword, but Bert inter-ceded and held her arm.†   (source)
  • Your medium of inter-loop travel is when-1940?†   (source)
  • I planned to talk to him about it during the inter-semester break, but my father suffered a second heart attack on the first day of that break.†   (source)
  • Inter-dimensional beings feature prominently in many of them—these either created or shaped humanity for its own purposes, or left a message for humans to decipher for obscure reasons of their own.†   (source)
  • He found himself walking toward a counter beneath a large sea-blue sign with white lettering: INTER-ISLAND AIRWAYS.†   (source)
  • They hoped to do their business quickly, cleanly—and get out before they were required to explain their presence to the local authorities, which would at least tangle them in inter-jurisdictional paperwork and might result in troubling questions about what legitimate laws they were enforcing.†   (source)
  • He reminded himself that he would sell his d'Anconia Copper stock, which had never rallied fully after its crash of last year, and he would purchase shares of the Inter-neighborly Amity and Development Corporation, as agreed with his friends, which would bring him a fortune.†   (source)
  • But man's soul is most awake in his knowledge of the inter-changeability of the terms "existence" and "transitoriness.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace," said Missandei, "Ghiscari inter their honored dead in crypts below their manses.†   (source)
  • It's about inter' "As Captain Sharp pointed out, most of us have appropriate clearances." the admiral said, shrugging.†   (source)
  • I walked an hour through some rough neighborhoods along Chef Menteur and then crossed the Inter Harbor Canal.†   (source)
  • Mating in mid-air they shed their wings, dropping inter-twined to earth.†   (source)
  • He was an American and he was inter- ested in Africa.†   (source)
  • There was only one way he could have known—through the agency of our own Security Police, who reported de Jong's presence as a matter of routine as soon as the car passed the Inter Sector checkpoint.†   (source)
  • How much longer would it take to eradicate the scars of inter-racial civil war, which could not be fought without a great loss of life on both sides?†   (source)
  • Here on the outer edge of Wales it advanced and hesitated as rhythmically and as inter-minably as a needle in a hem.†   (source)
  • "They won' grow inter nuthin'," said Hagrid.†   (source)
  • "Just inter-departmental memos," Mr Weasley muttered to him.†   (source)
  • Gryffindor had won the Inter-House Championship for the last three years in a row.†   (source)
  • '1 didn't feel anything,' said Harry, ignoring this inter-ruption.†   (source)
  • 'Well, I think it's a pity we're not trying for a bit of inter-house unity,' said Hermione crossly.†   (source)
  • "All the Heads o' Houses were asked ter look inter that necklace business —"†   (source)
  • 'Right, well, I've bin savin' a trip inter the Forest fer yer fifth year.†   (source)
  • Have fun exploring inter-dimensional space!†   (source)
  • 'I'm not here on an inter-agency diplomatic mission, General — it is General, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Harry could hardly believe that Dumbledore would not have inter-vened if such cruelty was happening inside his own house, and yet there was undoubtedly something odd about the story.†   (source)
  • They even sent down a coupler ladies from the bleedin' London Psychic Society to look inter that 'un!†   (source)
  • Then he said quietly, "Thought o' jus' letting Buckbeak go… tryin' ter make him fly away… but how d'yeh explain ter a hippogriff it's gotta go inter hidin'?†   (source)
  • He was twenty-four years old now and despite his accelerating mental decline was still employed by the Inter Ocean as a delivery contractor.†   (source)
  • Inter-Planetary Launch was a city of three thousand inhabitants, breathing oxygen from the plants that also fed them, drinking water that had already passed through their bodies ten thousand times, living only to service the tugs that did all the oxwork in the solar system and the shuttles that took their cargos and passengers back to the Earth or the Moon.†   (source)
  • He called it an inter-an intern-†   (source)
  • Nearby, at the distribution warehouse of the Chicago Inter Ocean, a widely read and respected newspaper, a young Irish immigrant—and staunch supporter of Carter Harrison—completed his workday.†   (source)
  • It is also my painful duty to inform you that the Inter-House Quidditch Cup will not take place this year.†   (source)
  • We had ter leg it an' we knew there was no way we was going ter be able ter march inter the camp again.'†   (source)
  • The Chicago Inter Ocean said, "It is humiliating to think that had it not been for the exertions of the insurance companies which Holmes swindled, or attempted to swindle, he might yet be at large, preying upon society, so well did he cover up the traces of his crime."†   (source)
  • Ar, I always knew yeh'd find it hard ter squeeze me inter yer timetables," he said gruffly, pouring them more tea.†   (source)
  • He was dreading the Leaving Feast, which was usually a cause for celebration, when the winner of the Inter-House Championship would be announced.†   (source)
  • Despite his charm—the Chicago Inter Ocean once called him "another Chauncey M. Depew in postprandial wit and humor"—he failed to arouse their enthusiasm and left New York for Atlanta feeling the same degree of disappointment Burnham had felt two weeks earlier.†   (source)
  • I know what yeh're like abou' Snape, Harry, an' I don' want yeh ter go readin' more inter this than there is.†   (source)
  • Ran inter a couple o' mad trolls on the Polish border an' I had a sligh' disagreement with a vampire in a pub in Minsk, bu' apart from tha' couldn't'a bin smoother.†   (source)
  • As Uncle Vernon delightedly told anyone who would listen, Dudley had recently become the Junior Heavyweight Inter-School Boxing Champion of the Southeast.†   (source)
  • 'So?' said Harry, scanning the short news item to which the picture belonged; it was a rather dull story about inter-school competitions.†   (source)
  • At night, when the giants were sleepin' an' we wanted ter be creepin' inter the caves, Macnair an' the other one were sneakin' round the mountains lookin' fer us.†   (source)
  • Yeah, on the third night after Karkus was killed we crept outta the cave we'd bin hidin' in an' headed back down inter the gully, keepin' our eyes skinned fer the Death Eaters.†   (source)
  • We was pretendin' we was goin' on holiday together, so we got inter France an' we made like we I was headin' fer where Olympes school is, 'cause we knew we was bein' tailed by someone from the Ministry.†   (source)
  • 'Probably woulda done if they'd bin in any condition,' said Hagrid, 'but they was badly hurt, all three o' them; Golgomath's lot had beaten 'em unconscious; they'd woken up an' crawled inter the nearest shelter they could find.†   (source)
  • Inter-Arab financial cooperation….†   (source)
  • They are interested solely in confirming highly dubious theoretical hypotheses by the logic of analogy and induction, and make no attempt at refutation or inter-sufyective testing.†   (source)
  • My uncle was very discreet, but he did allow that he watched the honored judge go to the Inter-Island counter and purchase a ticket.†   (source)
  • It was hard to judge the scale, since the shot had been taken from inter-dimensional space, but at the top of a cliff sat a massive warehouse-looking building.†   (source)
  • At that instant and with those words, Prefontaine's eyes fell in astonishment on two stacks of cartons moving slowly down Inter-Island's luggage carousel toward the exterior loading area.†   (source)
  • But to the students of most of the parochial schools, an inter-league baseball victory had come to take on only a shade less significance than a top grade in Talmud, for it was an unquestioned mark of one's Americanism, and to be counted a loyal American had become increasingly important to us during these last years of the war.†   (source)
  • Mimir, the disembodied god's head who traded drinks from the well of knowledge for years of servitude, who had ordered Blitz and Hearth to keep an eye on me while I was homeless because I was "important to the fate of the worlds," who ran an inter-world pachinko racket and other shady enterprises—Mimir had a collection of safe houses.†   (source)
  • Now the experts showed the tricky inter-steps.†   (source)
  • Ah'd die "fo" Ah'd let "em scare me inter tellin" on tha" man.†   (source)
  • It's pow'ful hard ter po' outer a bung hole inter a go'de.†   (source)
  • Ah driv dem inter de swamp de day de Yankees come, but de Lawd knows how we gwine git dem.†   (source)
  • Gawd looks past yo" skin "n inter yo" soul, son. he's lookin" at the only parta yuh tha's His.†   (source)
  • Enter inter they hearts "n" breathe compassion on they sperits!†   (source)
  • An' Ah tek de chile away frum him an' tek her inter her room an' wash her face.†   (source)
  • "Son, promise me yuh"ll stop hatin" long enuff fer Gawd's love t" come inter yo" heart."†   (source)
  • "Lawd Jesus, turn Yo" eyes "n" look inter the heart of this po" sinner!†   (source)
  • Bless me, life used to be quite inter — I mean, you used to upset things badly in these parts once upon a time.†   (source)
  • They say, "Sit down, diver," or "Now the left foot, diver," or "Diver Two, can you hear me on the inter-corn?"†   (source)
  • Inter pares.†   (source)
  • If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are inter-mingled, and if they have "faith in each other's purpose, hope in each other's future and charity towards each other's shortcomings" - to quote some good words I read here the other day - why cannot they work together at the common task as friends and partners?†   (source)
  • The family history was typical of the Catholic squires of England; from Elizabeth's reign till Victoria's they lived sequestered lives, among their tenantry and kinsmen, sending their sons to school abroad, often marrying there, inter-marrying, if not, with a score of families like themselves, debarred from all preferment, and learning, in those lost generations, lessons which could still be read in the lives of the last three men of the house.†   (source)
  • It is because the hawks themselves are furious creatures, and the people who associate with them catch it/ Arthur presented Sir Lancelot with an inter-mewed jer-falcon, with which to keep himself amused.†   (source)
  • But w'en she come to, she go inter de room whar he settin', holin' Miss Bonnie, an' she say: 'Gimme mah baby whut you kilt.'†   (source)
  • He fling inter de house an' not even speak ter Miss Scarlett or Miss Pitty or any of de ladies as wuz callin', but he fly up de steps an' th'ow open de do' of his room an' den he yell for me.†   (source)
  • Yuh said mercy wuz awways Yo's "n" ef we ast fer it on bended knee Yuh'd po" it out inter our hearts "n" make our cups run over!†   (source)
  • QUEMADMODUM INTER COELORUM IMMENSITATEM.†   (source)
  • Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers.†   (source)
  • "When a man's been setting round like a hulk for twenty years or more, seeing things that want doing, it eats inter him, and he loses his grit.†   (source)
  • Yet he was not an extravagant-minded man in this, and in constructing his family tree on the new basis was duly reasonable in framing his inter-marriages and aristocratic links, never inserting a single title above a rank of strict moderation.†   (source)
  • At any rate, I have changed my opinion about you, and I think right to inform you of the fact; but I also suppose that there can be no further inter course between us.†   (source)
  • An inaudible voice seemed to caress the soul, telling her names and glories, bidding her arise as for espousal and come away, bidding her look forth, a spouse, from Amana and from the mountains of the leopards; and the soul seemed to answer with the same inaudible voice, surrendering herself: INTER UBERA MEA COMMORABITUR.†   (source)
  • The coming of industrialism, attended by all the roar and rattle of affairs, the shrill cries of millions of new voices that have come among us from overseas, the going and coming of trains, the growth of cities, the building of the inter-urban car lines that weave in and out of towns and past farmhouses, and now in these later days the coming of the automobiles has worked a tremendous change in the lives and in the habits of thought of our people of Mid-America.†   (source)
  • The body pointed straight in the direction of the island, and the compass read duly E.S.E. and by E. "I thought so," cried the cook; "this here is a p'inter.†   (source)
  • His "house" (because it was a house, Stein & Co., and there was some sort of partner who, as Stein said, "looked after the Moluccas") had a large inter-island business, with a lot of trading posts established in the most out-of-the-way places for collecting the produce.†   (source)
  • Filled with ironical melancholy, Swann watched them as they listened to the pianoforte inter, mezzo (Liszt's 'Saint Francis preaching to the birds') which came after the flute, and followed the virtuoso in his dizzy flight; Mme. de Franquetot anxiously, her eyes starting from her head, as though the keys over which his fingers skipped with such agility were a series of trapezes, from any one of which he might come crashing, a hundred feet, to the ground, stealing now and then a glance…†   (source)
  • Also he soon learned that several miles out from Lycurgus, on the Mohawk, near a hamlet called Van Troup, was an inter-factory country club, to which most of the department heads of the various factories about belonged, but, alas, as he also learned, Griffiths and Company did not really favor their officials mixing with those of any other company, and for that reason few of them did.†   (source)
  • It's a word that's made up out'n the Greek ORGO, outside, open, abroad; and the Hebrew JEESUM, to plant, cover up; hence inTER.†   (source)
  • It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.†   (source)
  • But let's look inter it.†   (source)
  • A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.†   (source)
  • Inter pocula.†   (source)
  • The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.†   (source)
  • This connection was thus kept private for two reasons, one of which, in the freedom of their inter course, was frankly avowed to Marmaduke, while the other continued profoundly hid in the bosom of his friend, The last was nothing more than pride.†   (source)
  • "Think what you do, my masters," said the Prior, "ere you put your hand on the Church's patrimony—These things are 'inter res sacras', and I wot not what judgment might ensue were they to be handled by laical hands."†   (source)
  • The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who had followed me from Nimes to Paris, who had hid himself in the garden, who had struck me, had seen me dig the grave, had seen me inter the child,—he might become acquainted with your person,—nay, he might even then have known it.†   (source)
  • He knew that it was kept until the savages might find a place to inter it, where it would be beyond the reach of the scalping knife.†   (source)
  • "I tell you," repeated his companion, with a thick tongue, "that I don't live in the Rue des Mauvaises Paroles, ~indignus qui inter mala verba habitat~.†   (source)
  • When these arrangements were completed, Ishmael approached the seemingly unconscious Esther, and announced his intention to inter the dead.†   (source)
  • In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations.†   (source)
  • At her death, at the moment when she was passing to the other sepulchre, she had bequeathed this one in perpetuity to afflicted women, mothers, widows, or maidens, who should wish to pray much for others or for themselves, and who should desire to inter themselves alive in a great grief or a great penance.†   (source)
  • Then the king let inter them in a chapel.†   (source)
  • One more message, one behest, I leave thee: not to inter my bones apart from thine but close together, as we grew together, in thy family's hall.†   (source)
  • And by the craft of Merlin he made to inter this knight, Lanceor, and his lady, Colombe, under one stone.†   (source)
  • So then the king let inter her richly, and after he let christen his child as his wife had commanded afore her death.†   (source)
  • Then for pity I made the damosel to leap on her palfrey, and I promised her to be her warrant, and to help her to inter her lord.†   (source)
  • And so at the hour of noon Sir Gawaine yielded up the spirit; and then the king let inter him in a chapel within Dover Castle; and there yet all men may see the skull of him, and the same wound is seen that Sir Launcelot gave him in battle.†   (source)
  • Then he commanded his servant Gouvernail to go to his vessel again: And commend me unto mine eme King Mark, and pray him, if that I be slain in this battle, for to inter my body as him seemed best; and as for me, let him wit that I will never yield me for cowardice; and if I be slain and flee not, then they have lost no truage for me; and if so be that I flee or yield me as recreant, bid mine eme never bury me in Christian burials.†   (source)
  • In societate humana hoc est maxime necessarium ut sit amicitia inter multos.†   (source)
  • [Pg307] It was first heard of in June, 1908, when it was applied by Oswald F. Schuette, of the /Chicago Inter-Ocean/, to the methods employed by the Roosevelt-Taft majority in the Republican National Committee in over-riding the protests against seating Taft delegates from Alabama and Arkansas.†   (source)
  • Not the jealous lord Belvedere and not her confessor if she had not committed adultery fully, eiaculatio seminis inter vas naturale mulieris, with her husband's brother?†   (source)
  • With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world, Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum, These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic's delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge, This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading in every sea, Our own rondure, the current globe I bring.†   (source)
  • …fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings, I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you inter-penetrate now, I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now, I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.†   (source)
  • Although unqueen'd, yet like A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me.†   (source)
  • I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of the inter'gatories: demand them singly.†   (source)
  • Let us go in; And charge us there upon inter'gatories, And we will answer all things faithfully.†   (source)
  • Then the king let inter them in a chapel.†   (source)
  • So then the king let inter her richly, and after he let christen his child as his wife had commanded afore her death.†   (source)
  • [1] "Sed dices forsan, lector," says Benvenuto da Imola, "nescio per me videre quomodo istae duae fictiones habeant inter se tantam convenientam.†   (source)
  • …her father slain: Next, your son gone; and he most violent author Of his own just remove: the people muddied, Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts: Last, and as much containing as all these, Her brother is in secret come from France; Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in…†   (source)
  • Inter their bodies as becomes their births: Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled That in submission will return to us: And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament, We will unite the white rose and the red:— Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, That long have frown'd upon their emnity!†   (source)
  • Let it be so: he first inter'gatory That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is, Whe'r till the next night she had rather stay, Or go to bed now, being two hours to day: But were the day come, I should wish it dark, Till I were couching with the doctor's clerk.†   (source)
  • Then he commanded his servant Gouvernail to go to his vessel again: And commend me unto mine eme King Mark, and pray him, if that I be slain in this battle, for to inter my body as him seemed best; and as for me, let him wit that I will never yield me for cowardice; and if I be slain and flee not, then they have lost no truage for me; and if so be that I flee or yield me as recreant, bid mine eme never bury me in Christian burials.†   (source)
  • And by the craft of Merlin he made to inter this knight, Lanceor, and his lady, Colombe, under one stone.†   (source)
  • Then for pity I made the damosel to leap on her palfrey, and I promised her to be her warrant, and to help her to inter her lord.†   (source)
  • And so at the hour of noon Sir Gawaine yielded up the spirit; and then the king let inter him in a chapel within Dover Castle; and there yet all men may see the skull of him, and the same wound is seen that Sir Launcelot gave him in battle.†   (source)
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  • Said she was jus' lookin' round the grounds, but I reckon she was hopin' she might run inter someone else at my house.   (source)
    inter = pronunciation of into
  • Right, now, we're gonna split inter two parties an' follow the trail in diff'rent directions.   (source)
    inter = pronunciation of into
  • Listen, I'm glad we've run inter yeh, Ronan, 'em there's a unicorn bin hurt — you seen anythin'?   (source)
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