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Beck's, e.g., to the Germans
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bier
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities. ▪ Even the female mourners, who followed the bier , were few in number and boringly subdued. ▪ She made ...
Usage examples of bier.
The seagull was the coat of arms for Clan Sealender, and upon the bier must have been King Agates Sealender, the last of his line, on his way to be prepared for the gods.
She described seeing the bier of King Agates Sealender and listening in on the conversation between the castellan and the priest.
Romans: there they opened their ranks, and made a ring round about a space, amidmost of which was a little mound whereon was set the bier of Thiodolf.
In front of the altar the bier was set down and the priests fell back, leaving Atene and her uncle standing alone before the corpse.
After the service in the church the procession of choir and clergy, headed by the crucifer, issues from the doorway, followed by stalwart men carrying the bier upon their shoulders.
Hij wenste dat hij de tijd had om over dat alles eens diep na te denken, maar er was te veel gaande en zelfs als het een tijdje wat rustiger was, was hij geneigd te mediteren over bier en honkbal.
Here was a poor girl putting aside the terrors which she naturally had of death to go watch alone by the bier of the mistress whom she loved, so that the poor clay might not be lonely till laid to eternal rest.
The image of Corsi lying supine with her axe under her arm reminded Lense of a drawing she had once seen of a dead Viking warrior resting on a bier with his weapon at his side.
Thundering for Liberator blood, the masses stood watching the platform, bier and shrine dissolve into a wall of solid fire, not moving again until the blaze died away and the whole of Rome was filled with the dizzying, beautiful smell of burning aromatics.
He craned his head back and saw the immense gold warshield of Prince Nicor suspended by silken cords immediately above and between the two biers.
More shocked and afraid than he had thought to be, Antony inched up to the bier and looked into the dreaming countenance.
The body, neatly wrapped in a new white tappa, was laid out in an open shed of cocoanut boughs, upon a bier constructed of elastic bamboos ingeniously twisted together.
On nothing else could Tempus reach a consensus: not on where the Stepsons would best be fielded next, or whether Successors or specials should continue to be integrated into his shock troops, nor even if Tyse was a suitable permanent base for his Sacred Banders, though a manifestation of Abarsis on bier day in the high peaks had convinced the fighters themselves of that.
Covering him from the waist down, they had laid a pall of Haldane crimson worked with the royal arms, supple with silken embroidery and applique, spilling off the sides and end of the bier and over the shoulders of the knights at that end.
As help me God, when that I saw him go After the bier, methought he had a pair Of legges and of feet so clean and fair, That all my heart I gave unto his hold.