exequies
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The exequies over the body were as solemn as they were premature; dust devils of argument spun through art magazines, scattering the ashes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required of such exequies 150 years ago, it's hard to think of an American artist whose death, tomorrow, would inspire such sentiments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their exequies are thus freed from the artificial, grotesque, and pagan horror given by obscene mutes, frightful hearse, horses, and feathers.
From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
Also I bequeath for two candles to burn at my exequies 30 lbs. of wax.
From Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century by Edwin Benson
Then, after all these solemn exequies, We will our rites 318 of marriage solemnize.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe
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