68 Verbs to Use for the Word funeral

" More than three hundred friends, relatives, business acquaintances, lodge brothers and Base Ball associates attended the funeral of Mr. Brush, on Friday, November 29, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Indianapolis.

He was given a notable military funeral in London.

William Eleroy Curtis tells of seeing the funeral of one of these Norway farmers: "His house was trimmed with green boughs and festooned with ropes of flowers and ground pine.

Bellarius also proposed to carry her out into the forest, and there celebrate her funeral with songs and solemn dirges, as was then the custom.

"After the above scurvy treatment I was naturally anxious to witness the man's funeral, which I understood was to be a gorgeous affair, six respectably-attired females having been sworn in to kiss the body, amid the hysteric weeps of three more in the background.

He told Mr. M'Kinnon, that at such a place he should meet a funeral, and that such and such people would be the bearers, naming four; and three weeks afterwards he saw what M'Kenzie had predicted.

Two or three days after this followed the funeral.

Smollett in Humphry Clinker (Letter of Sept. 3) describes a Highland funeral.

* Peter always remembered his mother's funeral in fragments of intolerable pathos,the lifting of old Parson Ranson's hands toward heaven, the songs of the black folk, the murmur of the first shovelful of dirt as it was lowered to the coffin, and the final raw mound of earth littered with a few dying flowers.

The day before he died Dr. North had said: "I want McAlway to conduct my funeral, not as a minister but as a man.

Go, make my tomb, provide my funerals; ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

It is even recorded to his honour that he bestowed a handsome funeral on his old enemy Eustathius.

"It's Indiansthey must be holding the funeral of some chief.

He loves a funeral better than a festival, and delights to think that the world is going to rack and ruin.

I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemed That sense was breaking through.

This man was ordered to manage the business, and conducted it in such a way (taking Caesar's funeral as a pretext) that almost the whole city was burned down and great numbers were once more slaughtered.

The following morning brought the funeral of Antonio.

Well, I thought that maybe it 'ud be a good thing if he joined the funeral, because, anyway, the girls could hear all about Chateau-Teery the next marine they saw.

But in the case of Hosidius Greta his son arranged a funeral for him as though already dead and preserved him in that way.

Nothing doth want to thy just funeral, But my salt tears to wash thy bloody wound: Which to the end

Overhead the mainsail, illuminated as high as the yard by the lamps, was bulging forwards under the gale, which was rising every minute, and straining so violently at the main-sheet, that there was some doubt whether it might not be necessary to interrupt the funeral in order to take sail off the ship.

When her death occurred at this time, her husband delivered the eulogy but it was her brother who accorded her a public funeral.

He was now sufficiently composed to order a funeral of modest magnificence, suitable at once to the rank of Nouradin's profession, and the reputation of his wealth.

In fact, he made no arrangements at all in her honor save the public funeral and images and some other small matters of no importance.

[Footnote 6: If the Quarto reading is right, 'this wonder' means the hurried and suspicious funeral of his father.

68 Verbs to Use for the Word  funeral