And in Amos vi. 10, we find the following, which also points to incineration: “And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house,” etc.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

As I do not care to earn my living and then leave my substance in the hands of the diable and be bowed out of the house every year, while the village hussies sleep in my beds and bring their fleas into my house, I just said: 'I ain't going to have any more of that,' and I went and found the big judge of La Chatre, and I says, says I: 'That's how it is.'
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

But no, it was too light to be one of the heavy elements.
— from Tillie by Rog Phillips

The commencement of the year 1827 was marked by one of those home events, which, though nothing to the world, make sad change in the fire-side circle.
— from The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

But once or twice he ends this vague talk with the remarkable confession that the sight of myriad deaths in war has made him a materialist.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

His Canon consisted of two parts: the “ Gospel ” (Luke, with its text curtailed by omission of the Hebraistic elements) and the Apostolicon (the epistles of Paul).
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Admiral Togo had just received word that certain ships of the Port Arthur squadron were going to make an attempt to break out of the harbor, either that night or the next day.
— from At the Fall of Port Arthur; Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer

“That my son, Lord Mowbray, should be out of town, how extraordinary and how unfortunate!”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

"Ye maun excuse the bairn," said Katie, "for she haesna been oot o' the hoose except for an errand sin' Adam grew ill.
— from The Starling: A Scottish Story by Norman Macleod

"It seems that I was more or less mistaken about Fell being on our trail," he explained, reflectively.
— from The Mardi Gras Mystery by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones