The stately obsequies were ended.

<Sequ, secu, sue> (follow): (1) sequel, sequence, consequence, subsequent, consecutive, execute, prosecute, persecute, sue, ensue, suitor, suitable, pursuit, rescue, second; (2) obsequies, obsequious, sequester, inconsequential, non sequitur, executor, suite.

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

Low on his funeral couch he lies: No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.

These antique obsequies were undoubtedly affecting; but the return of the mourners from the burning is the most appalling orgia, without the horror of crime, of which I have ever heard.

The funeral Preparations and final Obsequies The death of Lord Byron was felt by all Greece as a national misfortune.

Interment N. interment, burial, sepulture^; inhumation^; obsequies, exequies^; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation.

From the notice of these intrigues the public attention was withdrawn by the obsequies of the late protector.

Now, while he was diligently pursuing his art in Rome, he was privileged to witness the funeral obsequies of one Pope and the ceremonies attendant upon the installation of his successor.

how the Orient's bells are proclaiming Obsequies strange to the shrines of the west Services Christendom's cruelties shaming Taught by the merciful, Buddha the blest.

AT ROMEBURIAL AND OBSEQUIES AT FLORENCEANECDOTESESTIMATE OF MICHELANGELO AS MAN AND ARTIST.

Of such sort was the vigil kept by this solemn statue, so dignified in grief and sweet in death, at the ignoble obsequies of him who, occupying the loftiest throne of Christendom, incarnated the least erected spirit of his age.

Romantically conceived, and carried out to the fullest possible extent in accordance with the ante mortem wishes of the dead, were the obsequies of Blackbird, the great chief of the Omahas.

An enemy and one who commits suicide is buried under the earth as one to be directly forgotten and unworthy the above ceremonial obsequies and mourning.

The ceremonial of the funeral of a cardinal is considered as one of the most imposing at Rome, which is a city of ceremonies, and yielding only in magnificence to the obsequies of royal personages.

On Thursday, the ninth of October, the whole American army was paraded by order of the commander-in-chief, to perform the funeral obsequies of General Nash.

130 I spare the widows' tears, their woeful cries, And howling at their husbands' obsequies; How Theseus at these funerals did assist, And with what gifts the mourning dames dismiss'd.

With what face will those shameless persons speak of this deed of theirs to their friends and servants, viz., that they have slain an unassisted and unresisting virtuous man?"O protector of men, thus he, great in penance, bewailed much in a piteous manner, and then performed the obsequies of his departed sire.

Preparations were made for the obsequies and a funeral pyre erected.

It were impossible to tell how many threats and insults were launched against those who undertook the obsequies, and what outrageous language was vented against the dead himself.

It was to him a terrible grief to assist at these obsequies of his past life, and yet he could not tear himself away.

Fellow Crafts or Apprentices are not entitled to the funeral obsequies.

The poet recalls a recent attendance on the obsequies of an acquaintance, and seeks to divert his mind from the gloomy contemplation of death and the ephemeral character of mortal joys by urging his friend to join in the pleasure of the hour, and by suggesting the probability of an after life.

xochicopal tlenamactli, "the incense of sweet copal," which was burned in the funeral chamber (see Tezozomoc's description of the obsequies of Axayaca, Cron.

The result was a grimly humorous spectaclethe mourners, including the Commanding Officer and officiating clergy, taking hasty cover in a truly novel trench; while the central figure of the obsequies, sublimely indifferent to the Hun and all his frightfulness, lay on the grass outside, calm and impassive amid the whispering hail of bullets.