disinter

• Dear friend, 'disinter' anybody or anything you please, but don't disinter me , unless you mean the ghost of my vexation to vex you ever after. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
• Yet to tell her the truth he would have to tell her that the man she loved was dead Then she would want proofs He would have to bring up the Savoy Hotel people, fetch folk from America--disinter Rochester. —  The Man Who Lost Himself
• In the former case it is an ecclesiastical offence, and in either case it is a misdemeanour, to disinter or remove it without proper authority, [v.04 p.0824] whatever the motive for such an act may be. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Dear friend, 'disinter' anybody or anything you please, but don't disinter me_, unless you mean the ghost of my vexation to vex you ever after. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
• "We will kill two birds with one stone--disinter a patient for our leathern gallows, and a fresh incident of the Inquisition. —  It Is Never Too Late to Mend

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