138 examples of funereal in sentences

A JOLLY TIME FOR THE DEERHUNTING ON THE WATER BY DAYLIGHTMUD LAKE FUNEREAL SCENERYA NEW WAY OF TAKING RABBITSTHE NEGRO AND THE MARINO BUCKA COLLISION.

"Who are you?" exclaimed the Southern youth, much struck by the funereal aspect, sexton-like dress, and inordinately long countenance of the pallid, light-haired intruder.

For detailed accounts of these funereal floral rites it would be necessary to consult the literature of the past from a very early period, and the result of such inquiries would form material enough for a goodly-sized volume.

The French camp is in this crater, stupefied, affrighted, starting up from sleeping,a funereal swarming.

and, for the rest of the journey she was tête-à-tête with Henry, who amused himself by rallying her upon the sliding panels, ghastly tapestry, funereal beds, vaulted chambers, and kindred uncanny apparatus which, judging from her favourite kind of fiction, she must be expecting to find at the Abbey.

The idea of unity could only be realized by the exercise of sufficient power in one man to preserve the integrity of the orthodox faith, since ignorance and anarchy covered the earth with their funereal shades.

How many tears the poor lorn maid Shed, when her mother, alone, unafraid, Mid flaming tapers with coats of arms, Priests chanting their sad funereal alarms, Went down to the tomb in her winding sheet To serve for the worms a mouthful sweet.

Adj. burried &c v.; burial, funereal, funebrial^; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary^; elegiac; necroscopic^. Adv.

The spectators, having passed through three rooms hung with black cloth, were admitted[a] into the funereal chamber; where, surrounded with wax-lights, was seen an effigy of Cromwell clothed in royal robes, and lying on a bed of state, [Footnote 1: For these particulars, see the letters in Thurloe, vii.

Dead trees, one might have said,light-colored, apparently with no bark to cover them; but if I glanced up, I saw that each bore at the top a scanty head of branches just now putting forth fresh green leaves, while long funereal streamers of dark Spanish moss hung thickly from every bough.

The reality of death had gone with the coming of its funereal trappings.

There was an amusing retort, the afternoon I returned to Bucarest, to one of the fire-eating retired generals, picturing the quaint old fellow as thinking that people were born only to die bravely, and knowing nothing of Rumania's rule as the "defender of Latinism" in the Balkans, "tooting the funereal flute and showing us the mountains there is to be your tomb!"

180 Almagro diesthe victor's savage pride To his pale corse funereal rites denied, Chill'd by the heavy dews of night it lay, And wither'd in the sultry beam of day, Till Indian bosoms, touch'd with gen'rous woe, 185 In the pale form forgot the tyrant foe; The last sad duties to his ashes paid, And sooth'd with pity's tear the hov'ring shade.

It proved, however, at the same time that there had been this growth of distortion in me, and that it had been provided apparently by my closer contactfor the first timewith that funereal personality, the woman who, like her master, believed that all holding views of God that differed from her own, must be damned eternally.

Eleven hours they remained there, in anxious consultation: one can imagine those terrible dusky faces, beneath the funereal woods, and amid the flickering of pine-knot torches, preparing that stern revenge whose shuddering echoes should ring through the land so long.

The pyramidal form has ever possessed peculiar fascinations for men, and, from its simplicity, grandeur, and power, has been used in all ages with innumerable modifications in those structures whose object was to impress and overawe,as in the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of India and Mexico, and in all the earliest funereal monuments.

Many fragments of shields, spear heads, knives, and a sword, placed by the side of a skeleton, and at one end touching a funereal urn, and likewise several drinking cups, or small vessels, apparently formed of half-baked clay, with clasps both of silver and brass, were found within the abovementioned distance.

They've left him to his long decay; The banner waves above his head: Funereal is their rich array, But hark!

At last she reached a sandy, lonely coast-road, a mile from the village, with a leaden, pulseless, corpselike sea on the left, and on the right a long stretch of black, funereal marshes.

The first day the dance was slow and funereal, in honor of the Yo-kaí-a chief who died a short time before.

" Whitney had listened to Scarborough's speech with the funereal countenance befitting so melancholy a recital.

The merrier Aniela grew, the longer and more funereal became her mother's countenance.

"We have passed funereal glooms, Cypress caverns, haunted rooms, Halls of gray moss starred with blooms Slowly, slowly, in these straits, Drifting towards the cypress gates Of the Ocklawaha.

No longer the styx-like waters; the funereal realms of Pluto have vanished, and an elevated plateau appears, partially cleared.

You would have thought that this funereal truth had just come to her like a sudden piece of bad news.

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