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intomb

[ in-toom ]

verb (used with object)



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  • in·tombment noun
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In the 1717 version, which was compiled, with the help of several translators, by Samuel Garth, she calls out, “Gape earth, and this unhappy wretch intomb; or change my form, whence all my sorrows come.”

He dies at last in the utmost agonies of despair, after agreeing with an avaricious Undertaker to intomb his bones.

Goe happy heart for thou shalt lye Intomb'd in her for whom I dye Example of her cruelty.

In their own books intomb'd their wisdom lies; Too dull for talk, their slow conceptions rise: Yet the mute author, of his writings proud, For wit unshewn claims homage from the crowd; As thread-bare misers, by mean avarice school'd, Expect obeisance from their hidden gold.—

And breathe, and view the heavens and glorious sun “He gave: that in the Cyclops' jaws my life “Was clos'd not; that when now the vital spark “Me quits, I may be properly intomb'd, “Not in the monster's entrails.

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