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When we have disinterred the body, I shall leave in the vault for the enlightenment of future generations a written story, on parchment, of the circumstances of the transfer of his remains to America.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the Shuberts have disinterred it, playing tunes as they exhibit its creaking situations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ten minutes more, and Brasfort would have disinterred him.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne

The philosopher, the saint, and the hero,—the wise, the good, and the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light.—Addison.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

We have disinterred and brought to light the forgotten works of conscientious and competent men.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?