Sentence examples for burying alive from inspiring English sources
His death was marked by an elaborate ritual that included the burying alive of one man and one woman from each of the clans under his influence.
During one pogrom which included the burying alive of an eight-year-old boy, it was the arrival of the Germans which saved a handful of survivors.
Strapped in the gurney, Lockett, convicted of shooting and burying alive a 19-year-old woman, writhed, kicked his legs, breathed heavily and even managed to gasp a word: "Man".
Blood feuds all but disappeared here during the 40-year rule of Enver Hoxha, Albania's Communist dictator, who outlawed the practice, sometimes burying alive those who disobeyed in the coffins of their victims.
A Scythian custom of burying alive with the dead those who have been dear to them, referred to by St. Jerome, parallels Sindbad's burial in the cavern of the dead, and the "old man of the sea" who, on the fifth voyage, compels Sindbad to carry him has been identified with the orangutans of Borneo and Sumatra.
Drawing and quartering worked fine, as did burning at the stake, boiling and burying alive, flaying, garroting, stoning, smothering, keelhauling, and impaling.
