mourners

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Thoreau’s account begins not on the Cape, but during his rail journey from Boston, when he joins a band of mourners and gawkers to survey a shipwreck in the town of Cohasset.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Celebrant Roisin McFadden told mourners that Margaret, who was born in the 1940s, was a women of "quiet routines".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The world was still, except for the shuffling footsteps of mourners, the hum of prayers, the click-clack of rosaries.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago