6 Words to use with obituary

An obituary notice of a boy, 10 years old, in The Wilmington Commercial, contains the following statement: "In his dying moments he charged his brother WILLIAM not to dance, or sing any more songs.

"Very old," replied the doctor, who knew that the other was now at the end of his obituary list.

I hadn't heard he was sick even, much less"he cleared his throat"gone beyond," he ended, quoting from the "Millings Gazette" obituary column.

After a long struggle he yielded to her, but for a time he was a recluse, and his melancholy gradually wore out his health; until at length he was given up for a dying man, and obituary eulogies actually were published.

We might expect to meet with him in those books of lives so common with us,collections in which a certain number of deceased gentlemen are bound up together, so resembling each other in feature that one might suppose the narratives ground out by some obituary-machine and labelled afterward to suit purchasers.

During the week of mourning, the intercourse between Moseley Hall and the rectory was confined to messages and notes of inquiry after each other's welfare: but the visit of the Moseleys to the deanery had been returned; and the day after the appearance of the obituary paragraph, the family of the latter dined by invitation at the Hall.

6 Words to use with  obituary