honorable burial
honourable burial BrE

The British found his body and gave it an honorable burial.

The local minister passes away and is given an honorable burial.

"If I die you are supposed to give me honorable burial.

"Surrender, old man, and I'll give you an honorable burial on land.

"An honorable burial in the lords' plot would serve many purposes."

Isn't it highly unlikely that he would have then come to give Jesus an honorable burial?"

It occurred in about 551 BC, and he is reported to have received an honorable burial.

In the end he asks Guðrún to give him an honorable burial and she agrees.

"They need an honorable burial," she said tiredly.

Sturm gave the brave fighter an honorable burial.

They are denied the dignity of the funeral pyre and other forms of honorable burial.

As military and international law did not specifically deal with cannibalism, they were tried for murder and "prevention of honorable burial".

His death and his honorable burial."

Yet since the man is a king, Clyomon gives him an honorable burial, decorating the hearse with his own shield.

He deserves an honorable burial."

Lena died fighting bravely against Aswad's Rad, prompting them to give her an honorable burial.

In the aftermath, Captain Noah was given an honorable burial and his epitaph simply reads "The man who saved Earth".

Returning to Thebes after a civil war, King Creon refuses her request for an honorable burial for her brother.

Robert Thorn alongside his wife Katherine are buried in Washington, where they are given an honorable burial and blessed by a Catholic priest.

Give the bodies to their families for honorable burial, for they had not been tried for their crimes, and are therefore still Roman citizens of good standing."

In addition, the Mamelukes burned his body to ensure the Church will not give him an honorable burial as a martyr, a burial befitting a saint.

Minkhaung renewed the campaign, marching to Dala to exhume his sons' bones from where Razadarit had given them honorable burial.

But the High Wizard would be most offended if he received an honorable burial after killing one of the most respected mages in Fairhaven."

Throughout much of the 1970's, he demanded the honorable burial of a woman, described as the last full-blooded Aborigine left in Tasmania, who had died in the 1890's.

In ancient Greece, it was standard for war heroes who had given their lives defending the democratic government to be cremated on the battlefield, then brought back to Athens for an honorable burial.

His remains were refused an honourable burial.

Well, we will fill their place, and, if they do not return to-morrow, give her honourable burial in her own courtyard.

But he was a useful and honourable man, and his own people gave him an honourable burial."

The Black Corsair decides to sneak into the city to retrieve his brother's body and give him an honourable burial at sea.

When they came to the Polish soldier's skeleton, he merely remarked, "This day must have a second honourable burial.'

Otbert gave Trudpert an honourable burial.

According to Herodotus, Darius still did not believe Histiaeus was a traitor and gave his head an honourable burial.

Guard you yonder woman, and see her safe to her home, or wherever she would go, and to Steinar here give honourable burial."

The last of the gospels, John, differs from Mark on this point, depicting Joseph as a disciple who gives Jesus an honourable burial.

His intervention ensured an honourable burial for John Dryden and he pronounced a eulogy at the funeral in Westminster Abbey.

Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial, so this included Tosspot.

Ibrahim, who had fled to his in-laws in Dagestan, then returned to Shusha and gave Aga Mohammad Khan an honourable burial.

These punishments were designed to deny the defeated an honourable burial; Philip thus continued to present himself as the pious avenger of the sacrilege committed by the Phocians.

I am the dead man who lay unburied in the robber's inn, where you ransomed me and gave me honourable burial, and therefore I have helped you in your journey.'

Zrinsky's corpse was beheaded and his head taken to the Emperor while his body received an honourable burial by a Turk who had been his prisoner, and well treated by him.

According to Plutarch, Kleomachos himself was killed during the battle and received an honourable burial as well as a commemorative column on the agora of Chalkis from her grateful citizens.

These noblemen took up the martyr's body on their shoulders, and gave it an honourable burial in the Veran field, near the road to Tibur, on the 10th of August in 258.

The faithful vassal of the Thalesian king was given an honourable burial, and the Alciones rode on, all unaware that the fabled crown of Thalesia lay beneath the turbid waters of Lake Venne.

Charles demanded an indemnity for all damage done to his territories while he had been imprisoned, free pardon for all his crimes and those of his supporters, and honourable burial for his associates executed by John II at Rouen.

When Stump is finally killed at the end of the play, the fantastically evil Sancto Danila goes so far as to praise his heroism and secure him an honourable burial, in direct contrast to the cruelty previously shown to the crippled soldier by his own people.

Stretching himself on the sand, he said slowly to Andras: 'Promise that you will give me an honourable burial, and when my body is laid in the grave go in my boat across the fiord, and take whatever you find in my house which belongs to me.

For the victory which they have won is the salvation of the whole State; and the crown with which they and their children are crowned is the fulness of all that life needs; they receive rewards from the hands of their country while living, and after death have an honourable burial.