disentombing

Italian Government, bearing all the expense of disentombing Pompeii, probably look to recoup themselves by the entrance-fees of the numerous visitors who flock to see the long-buried city.

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

Carmel and Lebanon, on the west, to Babylon and Nineveh and the boundary mountains of Assyria on the east -- the spade has been disentombing continuous and triumphant proof of the genuine antiquity and historical character of the Jewish books ....

To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880

This was no less than a grizzly bear which had, unobserved, been a spectator, and which immediately proceeded to dig into the mound with the purpose, no doubt, of disentombing the carcase of the horse for purposes of his own.

The Dog Crusoe and his Master 1859

It is the disentombing of temple-palaces from the sepulchre of ages; the recovery of the metropolis of a powerful nation from the long night of oblivion.

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834

Walking down a country lane with a dead cat in a boot-box and working out procedure for disentombing the body of an old man.”

Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935