41) 66431. Yeats, William Butler. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:66431 QUOTATION:A lady with soft eyes like funeral tapers,And face that seemed wrought out of moonlit vapours,And a sad mouth, that fear made tremulousAs any...
42) 59907. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:59907 QUOTATION:You come from attending the funeral of mankind to attend to a natural phenomenon. A little thought is sexton to all the world. ATTRIBUTION:Henry...
43) 7145. T S Eliot. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 7145 AUTHOR: T S Eliot QUOTATION: The Nobel is a ticket to one s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. ATTRIBUTION: On winning Nobel...
44) 8583. Newsweek. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...Newsweek QUOTATION: More than a hundred million Americans watched the late president s funeral, but the funeral did not take place in Arlington Cemetery alone. It...
45) 21800. Evans, Mari E. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:21800 QUOTATION:When IdieI'm sureI will have aBig Funeral ATTRIBUTION:Mari E. Evans (1877-1955). The Rebel (l. 1-5). Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology...
46) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Steele, Sir Richard
...(b. Dublin, 1671; d. Llangunnor, September 1st, 1729). The Christian Hero (1701); The Funeral; or, Grief ą la Mode (1702); The Tender Husband (1703); The Lying Lover...
47) Nanna. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Wife of Balder. When the blind-god slew her husband, she threw herself upon his funeral pile and was burnt to death. 1...
48) Suttee (Indian). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A pure and model wife (Sanskrit, sati, chaste, pure); a widow who immolates herself on the funeral pile of her deceased husband. Abolished by law in British India....
49) obsequy. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. ob·se·quies A funeral rite or ceremony. Often used in the plural. Middle English obsequi, from Old French obseque, from Medieval Latin obsequiae,...
50) 6227. Samuel Goldwyn. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 6227 AUTHOR: Samuel Goldwyn QUOTATION: The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. ATTRIBUTION: On producer...
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