Unburied

Someone else looked down at him, took him by the heels and dragged him to the side of the road to join the other bodies lying unburied there.

From paper to bindings to etchings, the limited edition of 50 copies of “Ashes to Ashes: A Homecoming Celebration for the Unburied” were made entirely by hand.

Others, especially in Left-wing circles, attacked Sweden as a dystopian disaster zone, as if the streets were littered with unburied bodies.

The fulfilment of that duty is sometimes associated with the name of a princess in ancient Greece who was prepared to defy the decree of the king and lose her own life rather than leave her brother’s body lie unburied on the streets of the city.

In the following year, which was the peak for the industry, 135 diggers unburied three and a half million pounds of razor clams.

Jesmyn Ward is the author of “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the 2017 National Book Award.

At the opposite extreme, the noxii (and possibly other damnati) could be thrown into rivers or dumped unburied.

For the Duke thought it unseemly to receive money for such merchandise, and equally he considered it wrong that Harold should be buried as his mother wished, since so many men lay unburied because of his avarice.

Lives, "Tiberius", 75. Suetonius has the populace wish Tiberius's body to be thrown in the Tiber, or left unburied, or "dragged with the hook", as a form of posthumous damnatio.

Many unburied skeletons were found by the archaeologists at the site.

Mortimer Wheeler interpreted the presence of many unburied corpses found in the top levels of Mohenjo-Daro as the victims of a warlike conquest, and famously stated that " Indra stands accused" of the destruction of the IVC.

Only children under the age of seven, who were cared for by local Mormon families, survived, and the murdered members of the wagon train were left unburied.

She is faced with the choice of allowing her brother Polyneices' body to remain unburied, outside the city walls, exposed to the ravages of wild animals, or to bury him and face death.

The Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 20b) puts it differently: over two consecutive days of full Shabbat restrictions, vegetables would wilt (since they can't be cooked), and unburied corpses would putrefy.

Woody's Road: Woody Guthrie's Letters Home, Drawings, Photos, and Other Unburied Treasures Paradigm Publishers, 2012.