buried

• The infant here was first plunged into the water--buried, as we should say, in baptism; and afterwards swept rapidly and unharmed through the flaming fire. —  The Angels' Song
• The word buried, therefore, in this passage, refers to the completeness of the Saviour's death for sin (as we say intensively of a deceased person, he is dead and buried), and of the completeness of our renunciation of it. —  Bertha and Her Baptism
• Vast piles of skeletons, of bones and skulls, lay in the path of the young man, and as he advanced he read the glorious inscriptions It now seemed to him that the ghosts of the buried were also moving on before him, increasing constantly in number, and all moaning as they sped on, until at last they seemed to condense into a murky vapor like a trailing storm-cloud, growing ever more and more pervading, and murmuring with thousands upon thousands of sad, but spirit-stirring national songs. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
• They secretly murdered every traveller who was supposed to carry property--buried or burned their clothes, packages, and vehicles, retaining nothing but their watches, jewels, and money. —  The Diary of an Ennuyée
• The pictures of the old Greeks were lost for ever, dead and gone; but their statues were only buried--buried alive--and now, at the command of wealth and genius, they were dug out of their tomb of ages, and came forth, unharmed, in their enchanted life and immortal beauty. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852

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