hearse

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Carrie Ann called it “tight, clean, well hearsed, and so effervescent and energetic” but also told Bethany to beware of the links between the movements.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2014

There was an allegorical air—a person fond of Spenser will understand me—in this uncheerful spot, single in such a country, ‘The house was hearsed about with a black wood.’

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell

Now I look back, and meadow, manse, and stream Dimly my thought defines; I only see—a dream within a dream— The hill-top hearsed with pines.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various

Answer me,        Let me not burst in Ignorance; but tell        Why thy canoniz'd Bones, hearsed in Death,        Have burst their Cearments?

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Two angels, one of Life and one of Death, Passed o'er our village as the morning broke; The dawn was on their faces, and beneath, The sombre houses hearsed with plumes of smoke.

From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various