As the procession approached the portals of the Abbey, it was met, as was then customary, by the young men and maidens of the surrounding villages, in their best array, who hung upon the hearse chaplets of fragrant flowers, and strewed its path with rosemary, pansies, and rue.

AN ORDINARY WIDOW Is like the herald's hearse-cloth; she serves to many funerals, with a very little altering the colour.

Well, sir, I was just passin' the Looverthat big museum, or whatever it iswhen I see a hearse comin' in the opposite direction.

How far advanced was mass when I entered the church I did not observe, but what I do know is that it finished abruptly after my warning, and the poor hearse horse never before galloped towards the cemetery of Choisy at such a pace nor in such an undignified manner.

And now they were under the huge trees, that looked black as hearse-plumes in contrast with the snow.

and it was respondin' about as well as one of them black Kabyles that are pretendin' to help build our station at LacanauI was still workin' it, when the old hearse swings to the right through a gate in a stone wall and brings up short in a field.

Put up that hearse ticket," Mike told me.

"The pine trees looked so gloomy then, and those great, black spruces yonder on the bank made me think of the decorations on funeral hearses years and years ago, the sort of thing one sees only in pictures; but now" "What do they let you think of now?" he asked, holding her hand in a tighter clasp, as the boat swept slowly past the funereal spruces.