Funerals
[fju:nərəlz]
Examples
- I will go anywhere with you, Mrs. Cadwallader, Celia had said; but I don't like funerals. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It makes one think of funerals and death. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And now, he added, I must away; for Sweeting is off to see his mother, and there are two funerals. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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.
- Undertakers let the furniture of funerals by the day and by the week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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