Word: burials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loves Rosa inevitably. Is she not the only beautiful thing in that village of drying fish and stuffy sitting rooms? But the centre of gravity is, as always, Trader Mack. The return of his tall, erotic daughter from Denmark, the brilliant suicide of Rosa's first husband, the burial of his great featherbed bath-tub? none of these shakes the hold of Mack, the strong silent man, over the fumblers about him. Honest British...
...wished to stand with his back to the squad, he answered: 'No, I am ready to die as I am.' The order to fire was then given and the victim fell heavily to the ground. The body was placed in an ambulance and removed to the hospital, preparatory to burial in the municipal territory...
After going down forty feet a little niche was found in the wall of the shaft. Within it was the head of a bull, roughly embalmed. From inscriptions relation to ancient burial customs it is believed that the royal occupant of the tomb may be shrouded in the skin of the bull itself far below...
...have laid no kingdoms waste, Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs Of weeping women through long watts of trumpets; Say, rather, I am no one or an atom. . . . . . . Well, what then? Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial...
With dismal groans and yells we'll drown Your mournful burial rite...