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Usage examples of obituary.

You surprised yourself during your first mycology lecture, speaking in English of the concepts you knew by heart in Russian as well as Georgian, although your mind kept wandering: You were thinking constantly of your obituary.

His mind ran on, writing its own obituary: Peron of Turcanta, twenty years old, who survived the dunes of Talimantor Desert, the night woods of Villasylvia, the Hendrack Maze, the water caverns of Charant, the Capandor glaciers, the abyssal depths of the Lackro Trench .

I heard them tell Calvin Seaver, the security guy, someone was a problem, and then read an obituary.

There would be a Times obituary for him, one of considerable length and detail, no doubt, but possessing none of the passion and rending torment of a shivah to mark his passage from life.

This was a brief obituary notice which referred to the death of Cyril Wycliff, stating that his demise had been the result of thrombosis, from which he had been ailing.

Almost before the smoke of the conflict has lifted we read the obituaries of the unsepultured dead.

In newspapers the following day, November 8, 1962, the Camperdown obituaries were respectfully long, though even longer were those for Mrs.

So Reporter Crawford of the Post ran what amounted to the obituary of his old town-taming pal, and Miss Morgana Floyd of the Arvada Orphan Asylum left the mason jar of blue chickory her orphans had picked for their hero at the front desk.

His obituary described him as a millionaire, a traveller in Central America, and a collector of works of Mesoamerican art that were the envy of museums worldwide.

Jamie Nickle was the only one from the time-travel project she was able to find outside obituaries.

I should have told Fellowes not to run anything m the early editions, but to have the obituary prepared, and then to hold it until either Winston or he had been contacted in Canada.

I hope so, because the thought of you becoming a new addendum to the obituary disturbs me.

The obituary notice in Boston's Columbian Centinel emphasized her importance to her husband's career in public service and thus to the nation: Possessing at every period of life, the unlimited confidence, as well as affection of her husband, she was admitted at all times to share largely of his thoughts.

Soon after Mantell’s death an arrestingly uncharitable obituary appeared in the Literary Gazette.

Obituaries were full of interesting items: birthplaces, relatives, and other items that could conceivably lead him to some valuable information.