58 adjectives to describe funerals

But the manner of his death could not be hidden from the army, and the generals only prevented an outbreak by honoring him with a magnificent funeral.

But he had a splendid funeral, with music and banners, and flowery paragraphs in the newspapers; and three eulogiums were pronounced over him, each longer than the last, and this would have pleased him mightily, for he loved speechifying of all things.

And though I should fail to have a grand funeral over me, I should hardly be left on my death on the public highway, should I?" Tsz-kung once said to him, "Here is a fine gem.

For interest of your stay, this will I add: King Richard's voyage back to Austria, The swift-returned tidings of his death, The manner of his royal funeral.

You quite fall in love with it, and it looks so harmless, so enticing, that you're tempted to get quite close to it; which no doubt is amusing to the iceberg, but is slightly embarrassing for you; for the iceberg is on you before you know it, andand there isn't enough left of you for a decent funeral.

I've got every man of that hundred and twenty on my string, and if one of them asks leave, within the next day or two, to go and bury his mother on the East Coast, he shall gobut I shall go with him, and he shall have a jolly little funeral of his own.

Guido gave him a sumptuous funeral, and intended to give him a monument; but such was the state of Italy in those times, that he himself died in exile the year after.

The party of the Mountain delegated him, with Chollet and Joigneux, to convey this heart to Dijon, Demontry's native place, and to give him a solemn funeral.

" "So she is, my boy," said Abel, gravely, "and a sad funeral it is.

[Footnote 6: If the Quarto reading is right, 'this wonder' means the hurried and suspicious funeral of his father.

"I've always said that those who won't pay for expensive funerals are filibusters," rejoined the person addressed, with a merry laugh.

Old Mr. Tomwit asked if his companions had ever heard how Newt Bodler, a wit famous in Wayne County, once broke up a negro funeral with a hornets' nest.

Of course, he had some personal property, but it was not immediately available like money, but through the help of kind friends she was enabled to give him a respectable funeral.

He turned away with a thought of pity, consigning the body to that strange burial which the Magians deem most fittingthe funeral of the desert, from which the kites and vultures rise on dark wings, and the beasts of prey slink furtively away, leaving only a heap of white bones in the sand.

"Well, at first it looked to me like it was just the regular frawg funeral, and I didn't pay no special attention, only I give it the salute when I got opposite.

The living few, and frequent funerals then, Proclaim'd thy wrath on this forsaken place; And now those few who are return'd again, Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace.

And it was a funeralthe funeral of the Empire.

I wish I had the trench full of yer savages, and a gineral funeral we'd make of the vagabonds!

That was the grandest funeral That ever passed on earth; But no man heard the trampling, Or saw the train go forth Noiselessly as the daylight Comes back when night is done, And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek Grows into the great sun.

It is even recorded to his honour that he bestowed a handsome funeral on his old enemy Eustathius.

I reported of his life of industry and simple self-denial,of his prospects, his friendships, his sweet and gay decline and departure, and his honorable funeral.

The humble funeral was over.

Both were buried in one grave, not far from the house, and a more impressive funeral I never beheld.

On the next day, at Hirson, which was another of our stopping points on the journey to the front, we saw the joint funeral of seven men leaving the hospital where they had died during the preceding twelve hours, and I shan't forget that picture either.

In this equipage they proceeded to Westminster; but it was the joyfullest funeral I ever saw, for there were none that cried but dogs, which the soldiers hooted away with a barbarous noise, drinking and taking tobacco in the streets as they went.

58 adjectives to describe  funerals