Burier

To my surprise, a high school classmate of mine -- and, two wars ago, a teammate on our state championship-winning soccer team -- is the best burier of dead soldiers in the nation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The working watch, discovered by Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, was accompanied by a letter from its burier, Joergen Amundsen, a descendant of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Bibliophobe, a hater of books: Bibliotaph, a burier of books -- one who hides or conceals them: Bibliomaniac, or bibliomane, one who has a mania or passion for collecting books. ❋ Ainsworth Rand Spofford (N/A)

It is as a buyer and burier of books that the subject of this paper showed himself in most interesting light. ❋ Leon H. Vincent (N/A)

When it comes to an end the "gold burier" must try to guess in whose hand the ring is concealed. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)

He was followed by Chowles and the burier, who threatened him with loud oaths. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

And the burier hurried off as fast as his legs could carry him. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

On reaching the door of the house, the burier set down the lantern near the body of a young man which had just been thrust forth. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

The foremost burier carried a lantern, but he held it so low that its light did not fall upon his burden. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

The speed that once saw him designated as a winger makes O'Leary extremely dangerous on the break and he has the strength to back it up, power which also makes him, arguably, the best defensive scrum-half in the game -- a regular burier of back rows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* Plague burier Clearing corpses from houses, taking them to pits and covering them with quicklime. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_acharnement_ of long-hoarded vengeance and maddening remembrances in the Grecian, of towering disdain in the alarmed oppressor, -- that, in very simplicity of truth, "_Darkness would be the burier of the dead. _" ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

FN#85] O dear my son, I nourished a hope that thou wouldst build me a strong tower wherein I might find refuge from mine adversary and foil my foes; but thou hast been to me as a burier, a grave-digger, who would thrust me into the bowels of the earth: however, my Lord had mercy upon me. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

"He is a singular being, certainly -- once a coffin-maker, and now, I believe, a burier of the dead. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)