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Deighton's "___ in Berlin"
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funeral
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Word definitions for funeral in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Funeral \Fu"ner*al\, a. [LL. funeralis. See Funeral , n.] Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. --Shak. Funeral pile or Funeral pyre , a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead ...
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" Funeral " is the twenty-first episode of the second season of the American musical television series Glee , and the forty-third overall. It first aired May 17, 2011 on Fox in the United States, and was written by series creator Ryan Murphy and directed ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ceremony of burying a dead person," 1510s, probably short for funeral service , etc., from funeral (adj.).
Usage examples of funeral.
They reminded her of funerals, forgotten birthdays, and absentia apologies from loved ones.
We had, reluctantly, allowed him to go there some months previously for the funeral, and in this amnesic state he returned there.
There, too, standing near to her were the Khania Atene and her uncle the old Shaman, who looked but ill at ease, and lastly, stretched upon his funeral couch, the fiery light beating upon his stark form and face, lay the dead Khan, Rassen.
He directed the cavalcade of cars and large autobuses while birds chirped merrily in the trees on that sunny afternoon, but the birdsong was the only merriment as perfectly groomed men and women in muted mourning colors filed past him for the funeral of Madam C.
Bele then spoke again to his sons, and bade them erect his howe, or funeral mound, within sight of that of Thorsten, that their spirits might commune, and not be sundered even in death.
Dobby had been killed by Ludo Bagman, the house elves of Hogwarts held their version of a funeral for him, as was the custom.
CHAPTER III--A DIRGIE In the course of the summer following the baptism, of which I have rehearsed the particulars in the foregoing chapter, Bailie Mucklehose happened to die, and as he was a man long and well respected, he had a great funeral.
Without consulting the dictates of religious zeal, he was prompted, by humanity and gratitude, to bestow the last honors on the remains of his deceased sovereign: and Procopius, who sincerely bewailed the loss of his kinsman, was removed from the command of the army, under the decent pretence of conducting the funeral.
His body now lay motionless in the Bollman Funeral Home, awaiting a postmortem exam that might answer some of the many questions about his death.
His wife had died a few years ago, and the daughter who had told Bowles about Levenbrook had said the funeral had been the first time any of the rest of the family had gone to Tycho Crater.
It is considered that the cayote, and the obscene bird, and the Indian of the desert, testify their blood kinship with each other in that they live together in the waste places of the earth on terms of perfect confidence and friendship, while hating all other creature and yearning to assist at their funerals.
A splendid funeral procession was prepared for Drusus, in which the statues of Attus Clausus, the Sabine chief, the founder of the Claudian Gens, and of AEneas, and the Alban kings, were carried side by side, thus recalling the memories of the early regal dynasty, as well as of the severe founders of the Republic.
And Coode was the sort of fellow who took off his hat when he met a funeral.
Quite right--of course--and proper, but Coode would do it with too much nobility, or as though it was the one and only funeral he had ever met.
Poor Coode stood nobly off the path for her as though he were letting a funeral pass.