To leave a dead body unburied is represented, alike in heathen authors as in Scripture, as the greatest indignity (Re 11: 8, 9).    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Some particular persons shall make it their business to search out the dead bodies, or any part of them that should remain unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

The bodies of the victims lay unburied in the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Appear midst the tombs and unburied bones, gibbering menace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

There were some unburied dead, some badly wounded and some sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

There is an ambition, unburied, to be sure, but as dead as Cheops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

So long as the body remained unburied, the soul wandered restless in.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Boabdil, unburied, always returning to the beloved home of his youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference

Whole villages were depopulated and even the dead were left unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference

The deserted villages stank with the unburied bodies of men and animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

Colonel Duckworth, and his body left unburied upon the ground where he fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Providence queried with questions varied in a rush hurried of temper unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhyme and Reason Volume Two] Reference

And he's going to bury the unburied dead without regard to which side they were on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 'Under The Radar' Reads] Reference

I had no heart to burn the scrap of his envelope either, while old Thompson lay unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

In the streets and all around lay bodies still unburied, both of our own and the enemy's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

I found twelve hundred unburied dead, all hacked and mutilated, in a vineyard near Kesanlyk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Whichever way he turns there loom past wraiths, restless as ghosts of unburied Grecian slain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The winter rains inundated the camps, and the dead in the general distress were left unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference

The enemy retreated during the night, leaving four hundred wounded, and his many dead unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

I remember the Winter of Discontent - rubbish piling up in the street and the dead going unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Democrat conference live - Monday 20 September] Reference

The sick were avoided from the fear of contagion, and for the same reason the dead were left unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

Thebes on the death of her father, could not endure that the body of her brother should remain unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

Hence it became a religious duty to scatter earth over any unburied body which any one might chance to meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Dead horses, a few unburied men, marks of shot in the buildings, now told of immediate proximity to the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

The people who were left were not enough to bury those who died, and even in the streets the bodies lay unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of London] Reference

Such as that they had power to work miracles, to lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem for three days and a half.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

There were at the date of their arrival thirty-nine sick men in the hospital, and six lay unburied in the dead-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

He will suddenly be destroyed in the time of a fearful uprising of the people; he will remain unburied in the streets of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

Five hundred and sixty-five rebels have up to this time been buried, and about two hundred are supposed to be yet unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

They then took him to the river side, chopped off his head, and left that and his body unburied, upon the bank of the stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

No cans, pails, or anything capable of holding water, shall be thrown out or allowed to remain unburied on or about any premises.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The bodies of the slain in Mahmoud's zereba at Omdabiya still lay where they fell, unburied, but dried up and mummified by the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

As two were nearly always chained together, the living was unlocked from the dead, the body kicked out of the way and even left unburied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference