quicklime

• Large quantities of quicklime were thrown into the grave, which occasioned so rapid a decomposition that, when his remains were nought for in 1816, it was with difficulty any part could be recovered. —  The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, entire
• Dropped into the quicklime, their flesh had been eaten away, their skeletons bleached until it appeared they had been dead for years. —  091 - The Purple Dragon
• The doctors told him to put Wilde's body in quicklime, like the body of the man in “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” The quicklime, they said, would consume the flesh and leave the white bones—the skeleton—intact, which could then be moved easily. —  Oscar Wilde, Volume 2
• Unsuccessful, he poisons them all, throws their corpses into pits of quicklime, then leaps in himself, to deceive the world and leave no trace of mortality behind. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• Germs about the stable may be covered up or destroyed by a whitewash of freshly burned quicklime, the harness, brushes, etc., may be washed with caustic soda, and then smeared with a solution of corrosive sublimate one-half dram and water 1 pint. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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