Mourners
[mɔ:nəz]
Examples
- A group of humble mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- These, over and above Sloppy, were the mourners at the lowly grave. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I shall have many fellow-mourners for the ball, if not for Frank Churchill; but Mr. Knightley will be happy. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Pilgrims and brother mourners, join in friendly company. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The atmosphere was dense and heavy, while the rain fell in torrents on the heads of the mourners, and the wind whistled mournfully among the trees. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We must get some of his Burgundy at any price, the mourners cry at his club. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She found that the children were truer and simpler mourners than the widow. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Thus directed, the bearers trotted on under their light burden; and the two mourners kept as near them, as they could. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Typist: Phil