exequies
Example Sentences
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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
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
He had in his fellowship chariots, carts and horsemen, and was a great tourbe and company, and came over Jordan where as they hallowed the exequies by great wailing seven days long.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
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
The tragick pomp of his sad exequies, And deadly burning torches are at hand, I must accompany the mornefull troope: And sacryfice my teares to the Gods below.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
