Then, again, she was not free to indulge in idle grief, in the luxury of woe; the great house had still to be run, she had to bury her beloved dead, the mourning which seems such a hopeless mockery when the heart is racked with misery, had to be seen to; and she did it, and went through it all, with outward calm, sustained by that Heron spirit which may be described as the religion of her classnoblesse oblige.

He jumped into the boat, but she was filling while he bailed; the dog ran along the island, howling fit to raise the dead.

As soon as things had quieted down within the walls Carleton sent out search-parties to bring in the dead for decent burial and to see if any of the wounded had been overlooked.

Together they wept at the loss of their grandchildren, especially the gentle and beautiful Lisuga; but with all their power they could not restore the dead to life.

ti: Lona; Halo 'round my dead.

hath the sea given up its dead?

During the plague in London, 1665, one pit to receive the dead was dug in the Charter-house, 40 feet long, 16 feet wide, and about 20 feet deep; and in two weeks received 1114 bodies.

Enter a Man bearing another dead.

Instantly the thieves beat a retreat, without even carrying off their dead and wounded.

A battery was brought to bear on them, and this, with a volley or two of musketry, soon sent them to the right about, galloping off and disappearing amongst the trees, after leaving some dead on the ground.

The Itzas of Guatemala, living on the islands of Lake Peten, according to Bancroft, are said to have thrown their dead into the lake for want of room.

In Mexico the Indian carnation is popularly known as the "flower of the dead," and the people of Tahiti cover their dead with choice flowers.

The Egyptians of their own will never got away from the belief that the body must be mummified if eternal life was to be assured to the dead, but the Christians, though preaching the same doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians, went a step further, and insisted that there was no need to mummify the dead at all.

"It is proper that, having indulged in becoming grief for one whole day, you should commit the dead to the sepulchre.

Following and in connection with cave burial, the subject of mummifying or embalming the dead may be taken up, as most specimens of the kind have generally been found in such repositories.

In the village where my people lived, in each house lay the dead of what the Boston men called measles, and there were not left enough living to bury the dead.

"Can we recall the dead to life, or keep those quick whom God is pleased to destroy?" "Thou hast me, girl!there is a truth in this that no bereaved parent can deny!"

The place for burning the dead is very near the holy pool.

To libel the dead is, I know, not actionableindeed, it is impossible; but evil-speaking, lying, and slandering are canonical offences from which the obligation to refrain knows no limits of time or place.

It may be it is a sweetheart he has lost, and he is one of that strange kind of men who can love but once; and it is loving the dead that makes him so like one dead himself.

He was even forgotten for three hours while he was on the tapis, by a violent quarrel between Temple Luttrell (a brother of the Duchess of Cumberland) and Lord George Germaine; but the public has taken affection for neither them nor the General: being much more disposed at present to hate than to loveexcept the dead.

I member the dead was lyin' in graves, just one row after another and hadn't even been covered up.

" Sir Lyon did not answer at once, but at last he said firmly: "Either the dead, or some class of intermediate spirits who personate the human dead.

What recked the dead of the four noble pall-bearersthe Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Lauderdale, Earl Mulgrave, and the Bishop of London?

We should only remember our dead in so far as their memory may prevent future generations from being saddened by other war victims.