I've shed more tears than Brutus ever dropped at the bier of Caesar.

I bring thee here a branch of palm, gathered in paradise; command that it be carried before thy bier in the day of thy death, for in three days thy soul shall leave thy body, and thou shalt enter into paradise, where thy Son awaits thy coming."

The bier with the corpse of Antullius was deposited in front of it, the senate as if surprised appeared en masse at the door in order to view the dead body, and then retired to determine what should be done.

The sacred palm-branch she then assigned to the care of St. John, who carried it before her bier at the time of her burial.

The Spanish governors felt that no one could with impunity maltreat clients of Cato; and the circumstance that the representatives of the three nations conquered by Paullusthe Spaniards, Ligurians, and Macedonianswould not forgo the privilege of carrying his bier to the funeral pile, was the noblest dirge in honour of that noble man.

In this we are told that at the time of his death a marvellous prodigy was observed; for that, when his corpse was borne on a bier from Monte Cavallo to the Vatican, at the moment of a violent storm of wind and rain, not a drop of water fell upon it, but the bier remained perfectly dry, and the torches with which it was accompanied were none of them extinguished.

The priest lay down on the bier before the altar, and after Juan came the priest arose.

In each of these is a bier for the body, directly above which hangs a cord, having on the end ten thimbles, which are put upon the fingers of the corpse, so that the slightest motion strikes a bell in the watchman's room.

It was in the meeting-house, and thither they went, and seated themselves on the bier outside the door.

They lifted the sack, and carried him on a bier through the castle passages, until they came to a door, which was opened.

Will they not be carried in an open bier up those long flights of stepsall herscut in the rocky sides of overlapping rocks, to the cemetery, darkly shaded by waving cypresses?

They then formed a bier by fastening two poles to a horse's sides, and placing such fixtures upon them, behind the horse, as to permit my being carried.

They exchanged a few words, from which I learned that they had succeeded in putting the dead Hebrew back on his bier without having been observed.

This comical apparition is composed of three distinct animals one upon the otheror, rather, of two living beings carrying a bier between them.

Before her now they place a sable bier Beside the fount; and Ishtar, drawing near, Raised the white pall from Tammuz's perfect form.

They pulled it off from the bier on which it was to have been borne to the funeral pile, and dragged it ignominiously away.