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By the time Archeologist Acosta had disinterred his pyramid, the Mexican government had upped its grant by another 11,000 pesos.

From Time Magazine Archive

The authorities which he needed were already in print, and his books would not have been better if he had disinterred a few more facts from unprinted sources.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

By January I had disinterred what was left of our correspondence from among my scattered belongings and had burnt it.

From The Best Ghost Stories by Various

I brought away with me from Pachacam�c about half a dozen of the most remarkably shaped of these skulls, as also some portions of mummified 394corpses, which the negroes had disinterred in my presence.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

His last tolerable hit was at the monosyllabic names of the immortal composers his wife had disinterred in his library.

From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles