What is "bereavements"

Usage examples of "bereavements".

Within the outer bar was an inner bar, an antiworld where many men and few women sat in arcs staring at hands of cards or kwik crosswords or architect's drawings or lawyers' briefs or escape routes, where bankruptcies and bereavements were entrained by a twingeing shake or nod of some great ruined head, and where, at this moment, behind a mephitic banquette of cigarette smoke, his back turned, Steve Cousins sat talking the higher shop with three bronzed pocked mug shots: the most exalted vil-lainspeak (no detail, just first principles) about getting back what you put in and this being life and this being it .

His features reminded her distantly of Sunder, the only Stonedownor whom she had known well: he had Sunder's blunt openness without the bereavements and guilt which had complicated her friend's native simplicity.

She has suffered three bereavements so recently the death of her little squirrel, that of Beau her horse .

She must not offend the English by letting them think that her great good fortune in marrying their kind did not make up for all the bereavements she had suffered.

The servants will remember for a few days, truly, but with the wars starting, soon everyone will have plenty of gossip, fears, and bereavements to occupy them.

To the bereavements and miseries of our own lives, it has added another series.

First it was suggested that we should trek to Lorenzo Marquez, and wait for a ship there to take us down to Natal, for none of them would hear of returning beggared to the Cape to tell the story of their failure and dreadful bereavements.