As for me, give me trouser government, or give me a first class funeral procession with me for the corpse.

Funeral services preached by the Rev WM.

Remain thou here, and perform my funeral rites if it be necessary.

Either he thought, or he feared I would think, of a funeral sermon.

I could not bear to look at her, though I held her closely, as I read aloud the brief message which announced the death, by the sting of two dragons (evidently launched by some assassin's hand, but under circumstances that rendered detection by ordinary means hopeless for the moment), of her brother and Esmo's son, Kevimâ; and invited us to a funeral ceremony peculiar to the Zinta.

AND IF IT SHOULD DIE ON MY HANDS, WHO'S TO PAY THE FUNERAL EXPENSES?"]

At length I asked them when the Suttee would take place; and was answered by one of them, that it would certainly be performed on the following day; and that he had seen the funeral pile himself.

When Claudius saw his own funeral train, he understood that he was dead.

The idea was that the little fraternity should celebrate their approaching separation, and the consequent breaking up of their association, with a sort of funeral feast, the cost of which Jack and Diggory insisted should be borne by the two surviving members.

She pleaded her youth unsuitable to marriage, the recent death of Tybalt which had left her spirits too weak to meet a husband with any face of joy, and how indecorous it would shew for the family of the Capulets to be celebrating a nuptial-feast, when his funeral solemnities were hardly over: she pleaded every reason against the match, but the true one, namely, that she was married already.

When she arrived about at the middle of it, she heard strange noises, a funeral knell.

"That's as cheerful as a funeral dirge!" cried Tom.

Before those hermit doors, that never know The face of traveller passing to and fro, 300 No peasant leans upon his pole, to tell For whom at morning toll'd the funeral bell, Their watch-dog ne'er his angry bark forgoes, Touch'd by the beggar's moan of human woes, The grass seat beneath their casement shade 305 The pilgrim's wistful eye hath never stay'd.

" When they had finished her funeral obsequies, they departed very sorrowful.

{126} Death-games, or games after death, in imitation of wedding- games, funeral-games, etc. {127a} The famous tyrant of Agrigentum, renowned for his ingenious contrivance of roasting his enemies in a brazen bull, and not less memorable for some excellent epistles, which set a wit and scholar together by the ears concerning the genuineness of them.

He died July 4, 1826, full of honors, and everywhere funeral orations were delivered to his memory, the best of which was by Daniel Webster in Boston.

Pius IX, death of and funeral observances.

And so on (with a cynicism of which, of course, no modern "funeral director" would be guiltyout loud), until the undertaker's men come on the scene.

How should a poet carve the funeral stone To tell thy story true?

He doubtless had family records, funeral panegyrics, and inscriptionall of which were possibly almost as reliable as those of our own day.

The Cokesbury funeral manual.

Harm me cause me to be missing from the palace for a few hours, and they may light your funeral fires!

But to Harry, who had been just upon the point of asking for his father, it was as the dark funeral pall to his soul, and he staggered to a chair.

Dirty Boy rearing his crested head in triumph, and round him like the gate posts of a mausoleum stood the four black and white marble funeral urns.

" They rode on slowly, the funeral-drum sounding nearer as they went.