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inter as in:  inter at the cemetery

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  • The interment took place beneath the old oak tree.
    interment = burial
  • No matter how deeply I interred the memories, how tightly I shut my eyes against them, when I thought of my self, the images that came to mind were of that girl, in the bathroom, in the parking lot.   (source)
    interred = buried
  • In a professional tone, he offered Idris his condolences, and had him sign the Interment Order and Authorization form.   (source)
    interment = burial
  • 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)
    interred = buried
  • She lingered on for only a few weeks after she arrived, then was interred here.   (source)
  • It had not been possible, he said, to bring back their lamented comrade's remains for interment on the farm, but he had ordered a large wreath to be made from the laurels in the farmhouse garden and sent down to be placed on Boxer's grave.   (source)
    interment = to be buried (of a dead body)
  • The funeral will take place on Tuesday morning at the Church of St. Simon the Apostle, followed by interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.†   (source)
  • IN LONDON LIES A KNIGHT A POPE INTERRED.†   (source)
  • "I have no doubt," he said, after a moment's reflection, "that there are, among the many talented individuals interred here, at least a smattering of teachers.†   (source)
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  • We put the urn in the parlor until it could be interred at Bonaventure.†   (source)
  • "And now it turns out you only called us here to try and blow us up!" roared the Death Eater, and there was a volley of bangs inters-persed with squeals of agony from Xenophilius.†   (source)
  • When Esperanza, my mother, returned from her wedding trip, all that she found under the remains of what had been the ranch was this cookbook, which she bequeathed to me when she died, and which tells in each of its recipes this story of a love interred.†   (source)
  • BECAUSE OUR MAIN SOURCE of vehicular transportation was interred in Vine Station, Alabama, the Colonel and I were forced to walk to the Pelham Police Department to search for eyewitnesses.†   (source)
  • Theevil that mendoo lives after them, The goodisoft interred with their bones; ....†   (source)
  • He is interred on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party buried there.†   (source)
  • Where is she interred?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As Roran listened, his gaze lit upon the anonymous mound where the three soldiers had been interred.†   (source)
  • There was no time to waste, because by Ethiopian tradition, no one eats till the body is interred.†   (source)
  • It gave him dark solace, planning the details of his interment.†   (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)
  • They looked a long time for an area of earth among the rock faces large enough for the interment.†   (source)
  • Cocooned in silence, interred by the white hard cold of winter, and unable to move.†   (source)
  • Interment in the National Cemetery seemed fitting for the young man known universally as a "Marine's Marine."†   (source)
  • He might at least have waited till Father's bones were interred beneath the Rock.†   (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)
  • I watched yesterday, as she was interred in one of the two small cemeteries in town.†   (source)
  • And I remembered how intensely I felt about my interment.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Fred fidgeted through movies, but Fred would wiggle through his own interment.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She added: "It is appropriate that Rene will be interred very near to the Iwo Jima monument.†   (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)
  • 'Our job is to make them understand that the Cereal Professor will never rest easy unless he's interred in broad daylight.†   (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)
  • Interment at Mary Cyr Cemetery on March 21st at 4.00 P.M. Ought to've had a special rendition of 'Annie, Won't You Come by Here', sung by the Mormon Tabersnackle Choir, Paul thought, and did the Donkey some more.†   (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)
  • Even so, the Teacher could not help but suspect that the solution would be ingeniously clean and simple—"a knight a pope interred."†   (source)
  • How about 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)
  • Had Ned ever reached Winterfell, to be interred beside his brother Brandon in the dark crypts beneath the castle?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Then there were the very important persons who asked the 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 recommended some new method of approach.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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inter as in:  inter-city

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  • The company’s inter-departmental communication needs to be improved to ensure all teams are aligned with the overall strategy.
    inter = between (in this case, different departments)
  • First Lieutenant Louis S. Zamperini, holder of the national inter-scholastic mile record, is, listed as dead by the War Department …   (source)
    inter = a hyphenated prefix indicating a relationship between different things (in this case different schools)
  • Inter-Planetary Launch was a city of three thousand inhabitants...   (source)
    inter = a hyphenated prefix indicating a relationship between different things (in this case, between planets)
  • To crown it all he had taken two titles and had shown incredible prowess in two inter-tribal wars.   (source)
    inter = between (in this case, between different tribes)
  • She sighed and unhappily raised her eyes to see an inter-continental roar past on the E4.   (source)
    inter = between (in this case, a jet the travels between continents)
  • Inter-Arab financial cooperation….   (source)
    inter = between (in this case, different Arabs)
  • By analogy with IPL, Ender decided the letters meant Inter-Stellar Launch.   (source)
    inter = a hyphenated prefix indicating a relationship between different things (in this case, between stars)
  • Your medium of inter-loop travel is when-1940?   (source)
    inter = between
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Jason and his friends played it at inter-prep school field parties when scoping out girls.†   (source)
  • He called it an inter-an intern—†   (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)
  • 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 realized he knew the man: Patrick Prendergast, a newspaper distributor employed by the Inter Ocean.†   (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)
  • 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)
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  • Inter-family communication must be an acquired skill.†   (source)
  • Aven swore and reached for her broadsword, but Bert inter-ceded and held her arm.†   (source)
  • On November 18, Gail drafted an inter-office letter for the files.†   (source)
  • He found himself walking toward a counter beneath a large sea-blue sign with white lettering: INTER-ISLAND AIRWAYS.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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."†   (source)
  • I walked an hour through some rough neighborhoods along Chef Menteur and then crossed the Inter Harbor Canal.†   (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)
  • Mating in mid-air they shed their wings, dropping inter-twined to earth.†   (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)
  • Have fun exploring inter-dimensional space!†   (source)
  • All the Heads o' Houses were asked ter look inter that necklace business —†   (source)
  • Gryffindor had won the Inter-House Championship for the last three years in a row.†   (source)
  • "Just inter-departmental memos," Mr Weasley muttered to him.†   (source)
  • '1 didn't feel anything,' said Harry, ignoring this inter-ruption.†   (source)
  • Tha was taken jus' after I got inter Hogwarts," Hagrid croaked.†   (source)
  • 'Well, I think it's a pity we're not trying for a bit of inter-house unity,' said Hermione crossly.†   (source)
  • "They won' grow inter nuthin'," said Hagrid.†   (source)
  • 'Right, well, I've bin savin' a trip inter the Forest fer yer fifth year.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not here on an inter-agency diplomatic mission, General — it is General, isn't it?†   (source)
  • It is also my painful duty to inform you that the Inter-House Quidditch Cup will not take place this year.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • They even sent down a coupler ladies from the bleedin' London Psychic Society to look inter that 'un!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • You're inter-twined.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 'So?' said Harry, scanning the short news item to which the picture belonged; it was a rather dull story about inter-school competitions.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Ar, I always knew yeh'd find it hard ter squeeze me inter yer timetables," he said gruffly, pouring them more tea.†   (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)
  • As Uncle Vernon delightedly told anyone who would listen, Dudley had recently become the Junior Heavyweight Inter-School Boxing Champion of the Southeast.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Now the experts showed the tricky inter-steps.†   (source)
  • It's pow'ful hard ter po' outer a bung hole inter a go'de.†   (source)
  • Enter inter they hearts "n" breathe compassion on they sperits!†   (source)
  • Gawd looks past yo" skin "n inter yo" soul, son.†   (source)
  • An' Ah tek de chile away frum him an' tek her inter her room an' wash her face.†   (source)
  • Ah driv dem inter de swamp de day de Yankees come, but de Lawd knows how we gwine git dem.†   (source)
  • "Lawd Jesus, turn Yo" eyes "n" look inter the heart of this po" sinner!†   (source)
  • "Son, promise me yuh"ll stop hatin" long enuff fer Gawd's love t" come inter yo" heart."†   (source)
  • Ah'd die "fo" Ah'd let "em scare me inter tellin" on tha" man.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They say, "Sit down, diver," or "Now the left foot, diver," or "Diver Two, can you hear me on the inter-corn?"†   (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)
  • 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)
  • QUEMADMODUM INTER COELORUM IMMENSITATEM.†   (source)
  • Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 of astonishment and unbelief at her companion, as who should say: "It isn't possible, I would never have believed that a human being could do all that!"†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations.†   (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)
  • When these arrangements were completed, Ishmael approached the seemingly unconscious Esther, and announced his intention to inter the dead.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • Inter pocula.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • So then the king let inter her richly, and after he let christen his child as his wife had commanded afore her death.†   (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)
  • of the best-beloved of me and America,
    The drops I distil upon you shall grow 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)
  • Then the king let inter them in a chapel.†   (source)
  • Let us go in; And charge us there upon inter'gatories, And we will answer all things faithfully.†   (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)
  • So then the king let inter her richly, and after he let christen his child as his wife had commanded afore her death.†   (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)
  • First, 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 clouds, And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death; Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, Will nothing stick our person to arraign In ear and ear.†   (source)
  • [1] "Sed dices forsan, lector," says Benvenuto da Imola, "nescio per me videre quomodo istae duae fictiones habeant inter se tantam convenientam†   (source)
  • And by the craft of Merlin he made to inter this knight, Lanceor, and his lady, Colombe, under one stone.†   (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)
  • 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
  • Bless me, life used to be quite inter — I mean, you used to upset things badly in these parts once upon a time.   (source)
    inter = the start of interesting, but not completed
  • 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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