A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies. From Wordnik.com. [The World of Ice] Reference
A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathized with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies. From Wordnik.com. [The World of Ice] Reference
The result was literally overwhelming, for in a moment he was almost buried in snow, to the unutterable delight of his sister, who stood screaming with laughter as the unfortunate boy struggled to disentomb himself. From Wordnik.com. [Silver Lake] Reference
Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit -- the scene of the labors of M. Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of M.sopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
A straw, and lent his aid right willingly to disentomb and carry the brandy keg. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Such changes must be slow, for the changes in the universe are very slow; but just as these slow changes become important, when we look at results after long periods of action, as we do when we perceive the alterations of the earth's surface during geological epochs; so the parallel changes in animal form become more and more striking, in proportion as the time they have been going on is great; as we see when we compare our living animals with those which we disentomb from each successively older geological formation. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
The men, women, and children struggled to disentomb themselves, and in doing so mixed up the oil of the lamps, the soup of their kettles, the black soot of the walls and roof, the dogs that had sneaked in, the junks of cooked, half-cooked, and raw blubber, and their own hairy-coated persons, into a conglomerate so atrocious to behold, or even think upon, that we are constrained to draw a curtain over the scene and spare the reader's feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Ungava] Reference
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