He spoke always of "interments," of "caskets," and "coaches," using terms that were calculated rather to bring out the majesty and sublimity of death than to parade its horrors.
"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"
Stephen Leacock
The heat, and the smarting effect upon their eyes of the strong smoke from the burning oak and deal, had at last driven the villagers back from the road in front of the houses, and they now stood in groups in the churchyard, the surface of which, raised by the interments of generations, stood four or five feet above the level of the road, and almost even with the top of the low wall dividing one from the other.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
The adult interments consisted of the remains of full-grown European types and of small-sized people.
"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"
Edward Tyson