Disentombment

New and interesting excavations are made continuously, and I could have remained here the live-long day, watching the gradual disentombment of the beautiful columns, statuary, and other long-buried mementoes of Rome's past greatness -- and, as her foundations were laid bare, rebuilding and repeopling, according to my own ideal fancies, this great temple of eloquence. ❋ W. Cope Devereux (N/A)

The process of disentombment was not proceeded with very rapidly at first; it lingered on, in not too skilful hands, till ❋ W. Cope Devereux (N/A)

Not wishing to appear unmindful of the kindly intentions of my would-be assistant, I thanked him, inwardly wishing that this disentombment had been left entirely to me. ❋ George Hart (N/A)

Perhaps one of the most interesting is that connected with the disentombment of the Nineveh marbles, and the discovery of the long-lost cuneiform or arrow-headed character in which the inscriptions on them are written -- a kind of writing which had been lost to the world since the period of the Macedonian conquest of ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

And the story of the disentombment of these remarkable works, as told by Mr. Layard himself in his ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Sometimes several weeks elapsed ere the disentombment, the penitent being then usually found numb and congealed in all his extremities, like one newly stricken with paralysis. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

As the work of disentombment had long since ceased, nothing remained to be seen but part of the theatre, the descent to which is by a staircase made for the purpose. ❋ Shearjashub Spooner (1834)