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These received decent burial, but the others, lying uninterred as they had fallen, became a prey to the wild beasts of the prairie.

From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey

The most ancient writings have allusions to the shamefulness of a corpse lying uninterred.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

Little I care if I such doom must meet; But I care much not uninterred to leave His corpse that was of the same mother born.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin

And instantly upon being girdled, he proceeded to take part in the ceremony of closing the cave; his predecessor yet remaining uninterred on the purple mat where he died.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

The woman died, and so poor were the people of the locality, that for want of a few boards to make a coffin, she remained uninterred for eight days.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John