Mourner

Examples

• Yet, the spectacle of only one little mourner hobbling after, caused many people to turn their heads with a look of interest. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Other accounts make Charles wear a shroud and lie in the coffin, remaining there alone until the last mourner had left the chapel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This done, I rested, leaning against the tree; lingering, like any other mourner, beside a newly-sodded grave. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The spirits of the departed seemed to flit around, and to cast a shadow, which was felt but seen not, around the head of the mourner. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Here, clearly, was a new legatee; else why was he bidden as a mourner? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thousands died unlamented; for beside the yet warm corpse the mourner was stretched, made mute by death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Many sorrows have befallen man during his chequered course; and many a woe-stricken mourner has found himself sole survivor among many. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then, supporting my decrepid fellow-mourner, we slowly left the chapel. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• 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.

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