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

More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepul- chral cells of pismires, and practice of bees,—which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

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 Benson, Edwin

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 MacDonald, George