Unburied

The reason was that we were told that no British soldier should remain unburied, and let me say this; the padres carried out their work magnificently, for not a British soldier remained on the Peninsula unburied when we finally all cleared out. ❋ Unknown (1920)

To leave a dead body unburied is represented, alike in heathen authors as in Scripture, as the greatest indignity (Re 11: 8, 9). ❋ Unknown (1871)

Its morbid and it shows disrespect for the dead to allow someone’s body to remain unburied and serve as property for people to fight over. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On every new alarm, call the unburied ghosts from former fields of battle; range them in tremendous array, call them one by one to witness against the conscience of your enemy, and ere the battle is begun take from him all courage to engage. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Some particular persons shall make it their business to search out the dead bodies, or any part of them that should remain unburied. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It was increasingly argued that the country was being “held to ransom” by the unions, who seemed able to cut off the electricity and leave the dead unburied while they pursued their disputes. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

“A widespread investigation of funeral homes, morgues, and hospitals hasconcluded that the unburied dead have been returning to life and seeking human victims.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Visiting the freshly blood-soaked Fredericksburg, Virginia battlefield in December of 1862, Walt Whitman felt sickened by the bloated and discolored bodies that lay unburied days after the fray and appalled by the stacks of amputated limbs he encountered outside an improvised field hospital. ❋ Cynthia Wachtell (2010)

My great uncles decided to unburied my great grandmother to bury her next to my great grandfather. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Corpses lay unburied because there was not enough outside help to dig graves, according to the Mentawai district chief, Edison Salelo Baja. ❋ By SLAMET RIYADI (2010)

Those who cannot pay the fee, or those whose bodies are left unburied, have to wander the shores for one hundred years. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

Theirs is a particularly morbid volunteer project: Combing the war-shattered streets for the unburied dead from two months of urban combat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To be well-remembered by the CFR and the editors of Foreign Affairs and the American Historians of the Future, but unburied and unsung in the political present? ❋ Ron Mwangaguhunga (2011)

Dead, just unburied, as acceptable human behavior. ❋ Alice Walker Blog Administrator (2009)

The dead in Daraa appeared to go unburied as residents stayed indoors, afraid of what witnesses said were at least two dozen military vehicles, including tanks and helicopters, that had entered the city. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lie unburied on the battlefield, prey for carrion animals, the harshest punishment at the time. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)

They [unbury] [the corpse]. The mother unburied her child from underneath [the mound] of blankets. ❋ Cheeseancwackers (2012)