What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. From LearnThat.org. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).]
funereal gloom. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Morale is low or even "funereal," according to some people who speak regularly with employees of the companies. From Wordnik.com. [Fannie and Freddie Get Flatter] Reference
The readings of the first nocturn of Tenebrae are from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and have, in our rite, a special and distinctive "funereal" chant. From Wordnik.com. [Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford] Reference
Wrapping the forest in funereal gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
Top hedge fund managers 'funereal' in midst of financial crisis. From Wordnik.com. [MarketWatch.com - Top Stories] Reference
He devoted days and nights to a kind of funereal bureaucracy, inevitable even under the fire of the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The New Book of Martyrs] Reference
But among many of the guests, the mood was funereal. From Wordnik.com. [Is Dubai’s Party Over?] Reference
He's won, but he and his wife, Cherie, look almost funereal. From Wordnik.com. [Wounded Winner] Reference
The mood was an odd mixture of funereal solemnity and photo op. From Wordnik.com. [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference
Hearing that some funereal games were about to be held in Troy in honour of. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
In Bush's Washington bunker, the funereal gloom lifted a tad with Perot's rise. From Wordnik.com. [Running Scared] Reference
I will respect them, and deny myself the honor of performing the funereal rites. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
The funereal looks on their faces betrayed what might have been their real thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Lies And The President] Reference
His own voice was cacophonous and funereal, and it was droll to hear him solemnly phrasing. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Its funereal, oppressive aspect smote him suddenly with the chill of a terrible loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
Even the curtains which fell round the throne, fringed with jewels as they were, to me looked funereal. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
It's been a good year for cover albums, despite Peter Gabriel's funereal "Scratch My Back" (Real World). From Wordnik.com. [Not Your Usual Cover Album] Reference
And now, even the corporate namesake, the magazine company Time Inc., has a funereal atmosphere about it. From Wordnik.com. [Big Media, R.I.P.] Reference
To dream for the last time -- to love for the last time -- bitter contemplation -- funereal introspection. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
Doliones, celebrating the funereal rites of the slain, with every demonstration of mourning and solemnity. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
She was becoming the prisoner of an enraged tyrant, alone, in the midst of an impenetrable and funereal solitude. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The lights that hung from the side of the vessel increased the wild, funereal appearance of every thing about us. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
They are perhaps only the cry of the sea-mew, that funereal bird of the tempest, whose presence portends shipwreck. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Dutch missionaries, waging aimless war against brightness and colour, arrayed their brown converts in funereal gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The scene is so strangely funereal and spectral, that it seems as if the Greeks must have witnessed it, before they imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Night fell and spread its funereal pall over a field on which, almost without cessation since the dawn of daylight, had raged. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
What emotions must arise in the breast of the archæologist who finds in a marble worn by time the funereal monument placed by. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The last stroke tolled out, sad and hollow as a funereal knell, and the sound mingled with the death-cry of the luckless Thirteenth!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
It was then reserved for my lot to pay this funereal tribute to the high and potent princess, Henrietta of England, Duchess of Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The heavens are overcast, thunder rolls above them, and the lightning's glare makes the black fringes of the heavy cloud more funereal. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Any person who didn't know better would be instantly shamed by the combination of submission and disdain in his perfectly funereal tone. From Wordnik.com. [Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck] Reference
In two days, Bouchereau, haunted by his funereal visions, had taken out his passport, arranged his affairs, and completed his preparations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
He began lamenting to his aunt, when she turned upon him with unusual harshness, and he felt bound as he said, laughing, to leave the "funereal mansion.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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