A number of cremation burials were found, one of which contained the miniature bucket urn pictured below. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.yourdictionary.com]
The focal point of the urn is a two-headed águila or eagle. From Wordnik.com. [Uncovering Tonala's history at the National Ceramic Museum] Reference
The urn is not an object; it is deformed in that it is only its illustrations, its meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference
Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease and whitewash. From Wordnik.com. [A Nice Cup of Tea] Reference
It invites repetition, remarking that an urn is shifted round more than once so that sights on it "return.". From Wordnik.com. [Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference
December 21, 1795, quoted below, it is evident that by coffer was meant a vault and that the word urn was used synonymously with box. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
In stanza one, for example, the urn is represented as both "historian" and poet, but the speaker cannot decode the "flowery tale" it tells. From Wordnik.com. [Ode on a Grecian Urn] Reference
The urn is not an urn at all, but a clue to an allegorical or narrative (usually biographical but sometimes more broadly historical) level. From Wordnik.com. [Three or Four Ways of Looking at an Urn] Reference
And the urn is a brass urn with a cross on the front of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2009] Reference
The emptying of the urn was the signal which usually called up his appetite for another cup. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
An obelisk is surmounted by an urn, which is ornamented with a star encircled by palm-branches. From Wordnik.com. [Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business] Reference
Sure, the urn is fine, but when I’m ready to be beamed into that great beyond, I want to go out Nimoy style. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January] Reference
Seated pensively behind the urn was a fair girl, dressed in black, with an Elizabethan ruff round a long white throat. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
But, you know, this particular company, Brooke, they ` re really going to "urn" their money. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2006] Reference
"Sair do I m'urn 'at the shaidow o' that lee ever crossed my rain '.". From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
At nine o'clock at night he visited the "urn" called the "Sepulchre.". From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal City] Reference
It was replaced on the stage by an "urn" that Talma carried under his arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
The poem seeks to idealize the urn, that is, as an embodiment (and thus an expression), as an incarnation (and thus. From Wordnik.com. [Ode on a Grecian Urn] Reference
'urn', either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Free Press] Reference
A kind of urn percolator employing the vacuum process of coffee making, the upper vessel being made of glass. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
A kind of urn "percolator", or filter, employing the vacuum process of coffee making, the upper vessel being made of glass. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
I tucked the urn under my arm, and headed for the door. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Edna's Lace] Reference
He told me about taking an urn full of artificial flowers to the cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [The Power Of ‘I Am Sorry’] Reference
You put the urn up on a shelf, next to the bottle of hair tonic. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin] Reference
And we're in a biodegradable urn that will dissolve and feed the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Forest Burials Gain Ground] Reference
You and her husband had flown back with the two kids and the urn. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin] Reference
Two names were sealed in silk bags and put in a golden urn, Xinhua reported. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Weller: Under China's Supervision, Zagor Monastery Selects Its Sixth Living Buddha] Reference
I bought a wonderful African violet with purple flowers to go behind the urn. From Wordnik.com. [Perfect] Reference
She wanted something evocative of her mother and didn't want a traditional urn. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Outside The Urn] Reference
Then we had a funeral in October 2001, when we buried an urn with rubble from Ground Zero. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Martin] Reference
Whether you think that's clever or creepy, it beats the foreboding urn on the mantelpiece. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Outside The Urn] Reference
I would have preferred cremation, an urn like my father's, but that would have been a waste. From Wordnik.com. [Wrapping Kevin] Reference
She found Matthew toward the back, cradling an urn with a tasteful black and gold pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Gone Shopping] Reference
And from the banks of an ornamental lake, visitors may view -- but not approach -- the princess's grave site, now topped by a stone urn. From Wordnik.com. [Opening Day At The Diana Memorial] Reference
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