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Definition of Exhumers
1. exhumer [n] - See also: exhumer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhumers
Literary usage of Exhumers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (2001)
"In a bake-shop was a mill for grinding the grain, and the furnaces for baking
the bread: and they say that here, in the same furnaces, the exhumers of ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"In a bake-shop was a mill for grinding the grain, and the furnaces for baking
the bread; and they say that here, in the same furnaces, the exhumers of ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1872)
"... as these exhumers of dry bones are irreverently called, would but glory in
upsetting the platforms of his predecessors, and would prove to a nicety that ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In addition to this heavy sum the anatomical teachers had to pay the fines of
the exhumers when they were caught, or to support their families when they ..."
5. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1844)
"The monastica! scholars of Italy, the learned and laborious exhumers of the buried
treasures of human intellect, over which the huge ocean of barbaric ..."
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