post-obit
Example Sentences
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My first post-obit was cashed by his worthy father.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
What a thing that post-obit had turned out!
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
As soon as the post-obit and the insurance policy are in this office, Mr. Hine, your first quarter's income is paid into your bank.
From Running Water by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
I won't leave the place till I've set things right—not if I've got to give him a post-obit for five thousand—I won't!—Nobody there?
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
Here, wealthy misers to inter, We've shrouds of neat post-obit paper; While, for their heirs, we've _quick_silver, That, fast as they can wish, will caper.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti