Sentences with phrase «city buries its dead»

I'm not sure, but you got ta figure that the fact that the city buries its dead above ground makes it much easier to dig yourself out of a grave.

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So many bodies are brought in that the morgue workers struggle to identify and bury the dead fast enough to make space for the next batch that arrives with grim regularity, as the city's residents clear up after nine months of urban warfare.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city.

City looked dead and buried when Bayern Munich were 2 - 1 up at the Etihad in their fifth group game but an inspired hat - trick from Sergio Aguero set City up for a final game showdown.

In A.D. 542, during the savage Plague of Justinian, the citizens of Constantinople buried their dead in towers along the city walls and, when there was no more room, in massive pits into which corpses were flung like carrion.

Due to limited space and various city ordinances, people aren't allowed to be buried in San Francisco proper, so Colma has become the land of cemeteries; it has more dead people than living.