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dead are both buried and burnt and

The dead are both buried and burnt, and in the eastern Districts some water and a tooth-stick are daily placed at a cross-road for the use of the departed spirit during the customary period of mourning, which extends to ten days.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Dave also bending back a bush and

PERHAPS TEN THOUSAND YEARS OLD "By Jove!" gasped Dave, also bending back a bush and glaring down, his eyes wide open with interest.
— from The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

daughter and both bride and bridegroom are

The wedding decorations are family property, and descend from mother to daughter, and both bride and bridegroom are covered with flowers, jewels, and gay embroidery.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

door and brought back a bottle all

So the innkeeper went through a door and brought back a bottle all corked and sealed, and said on his fingers, and with his mouth and eyes, 'THIS KIND OF WINE IS SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL.'
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

dead and Bushnell Beecher and Bacon among

Nearly all the leading names in New England theology, such as Bellamy, Hopkins, Emmons, Dwight, Griffin, Tyler, and Taylor, among the dead, and Bushnell, Beecher, and Bacon, among the living, are associated with the venerable University of Yale.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

devil and blue blazes and brimstone and

I'm sure it reminds me of that man they call 'X,'—a sort of churl person,—who talks of the devil and blue blazes and brimstone and hell as if—as if he were a native."
— from The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree

dead are both buried and burnt and

The dead are both buried and burnt, and during mourning the Gāndlis refrain from eating khichri or mixed rice and pulse, and do not take their food off plantain leaves, in addition to the other usual observances.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

dead are both buried and burnt and

The dead are both buried and burnt, and mourning is observed during a period of ten days for adults and of three days for children.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

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