Tattered gray canvas straps were carefully secured to the casket and it was finally, slowly raised out of the ground.

In the small, innocuous-looking cloth bag I had carefully secured inside my reticule was a fortune in jewels.

Following the second world war, the church was carefully secured by archeologists.

For it was there, within a carefully secured compart- ment, that its various components were located.

Many of the neighborhood's original homes were built decades ago on weak rubble and stone foundations that crumble if not carefully secured.

First, the compass is carefully secured and the penetration needle is brought in contact with the skin.

And if he was in fact their man, then his home would be carefully secured.

However, wiring and machinery was carefully secured and no injuries or ill health effects were reported.

The escaped spy knew that she was a breach in the carefully secured plans; she could have called into open question the postwar Sandler identity.

They set out, having first carefully secured the canoe.