31) funeral home. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...An establishment in which the dead are prepared for burial or cremation and in which wakes and funerals may be held....
32) 47310. Roumain, Jacques. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:47310 QUOTATION:We sing the funeral, as goes the custom, with the hymn of the Dead. But Manuel, he chose a hymn for the living: the song of the coumbite, the...
33) Eagle (in funerals). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The Romans used to let an eagle fly from the funeral pile of a deceased emperor. Dryden alludes to this custom in his stanzas on Oliver Cromwell after his funeral,...
34) funerary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Of or suitable for a funeral or burial. Latin fnerrius, from fnus, fner-, funeral....
35) §14. Funeral ballads. XVII. Ballads. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages.
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in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Ballads of the funeral, echoes of the old coronach, vocero, whatever the form of communal grief, are scantily preserved in English; Bonnie James Campbell and The...
36) suttee. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...suttee, (su´te´, su´te´) (KEY) [Skt. sati=faithful wife], former Indian funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husband's funeral pyre. The practice...
37) 65203. Wolfe, Charles. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:65203 QUOTATION:Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,As his corse to the rampart we hurried; ATTRIBUTION:Charles Wolfe (1791-1823), Irish poet. The Burial...
38) 51342. Shakespeare, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:51342 QUOTATION:Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. ATTRIBUTION:William Shakespeare (1564-1616),...
39) 4602. Grace Hansen. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 4602 AUTHOR: Grace Hansen QUOTATION: A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ATTRIBUTION: Recalled on her death, Eugene...
40) 57731. Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:57731 QUOTATION:Now they heap the funeral pyre,And the torch of death they light;Ah! 'tis hard to die by fire! ATTRIBUTION:William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863),...
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