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In earlier times, this may have involved placing the body in a cave or underground burial barrow designed for the purpose.
Indeed, I could have loaded them all onto a borrowed costermonger's barrow and shifted them myself if I'd needed to.
A friend of mine had a barrow in Wilton Shopping Centre in Cork but he had nothing to sell.
At the most basic a round barrow is simply a roughly hemispherical mound of soil, stone, and redeposited bedrock heaped over a central burial.
Usually an alley was an access path wide enough to permit passage of a large barrow or cart from a lot in the interior of a block to a street.
The flint axehead used had been left at the barrow, its battered and damaged cutting edge precisely fitting some of the cutmarks on the wood.
The barrow was used from the 1930s to hold Garsons Farm produce which was sold at Borough Market in London Bridge.
The type of market stalls allowable will include, any wheeled or movable stall or box, barrow or cart.
The real reason for being a sailor is to get away from patients, bosses, aggressive barrow boys, wives, spreadsheets and diaries.
To watch an old-fashioned French housewife interrogating a barrow boy about the quality of his produce is to observe an artiste at work.
She gathered two stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow and pushed the barrow to the stall that was vacant.
They showed us old pictures of Kingston Empire, where a barrow boy stood outside selling hot chestnuts.
He habitually wore shabby tweeds and a cloth cap of the kind favoured by Cockney barrow boys, also by country squires.
Back in October 1995, Pierpont gave a belting to a stock called Digicall, run by an English barrow boy called Stephen Morris.
London has its Tooting, Somerset has a long barrow called the Fairy Toot and in Herefordshire there is a Norman castle called Toothill.
The chamber, originally roofed by a large capstone, now fallen, opened directly onto the front of the barrow.
This theft was premeditated because the barrow is completely worthless to anyone other than a trader.
By far the commonest type of monument is the round barrow, known locally as a howe.
The team confirmed that the site was a round barrow and that the cup may have represented grave goods from a central burial.
Also in the barrow ditches were woodchips and offcuts from the construction of the mound's timber revetment.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If the weights on the scale pan represent, say, 300 pounds, the net weight of coal in the barrow is exactly 300 pounds.
And soil might have been taken from the bottom of this Dorchester barrow which produced them.
The Druid barrow, generally a broad and low tumulus, surrounded by a vallum.
Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen.
The barrow was got ready and the corpse placed on it, covered with a blanket, and bound to its place with the rope.
Many burial mounds were found, including one barrow 33 metres long, within which signs of a giant timber building were found.
Presently the elderly woman appeared, pushing before her an oblong table mounted on wheels, like a barrow.
He has been excavating a barrow at Long Down and has got a prehistoric skull which fills him with great joy.
But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs.
A gentleman of the name of barrow, who introduced Home to Collins.
Temple, barrow, etc., have thus been raised to proper names.
If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make your mother marry again.
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