Adjective : a funereal aloofness that was quite chilling. From Dictionary.com.
Not a sound, save that of her voice which sounded funereally. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Reflected back and pale, the lights from resuscitation, were glowing funereally. From Wordnik.com. [ALTERNATIVE MEMORY] Reference
Cars moved funereally up the cul-de-sac, turning into driveways, into garage doors opening like mouths. From Wordnik.com. [Snow] Reference
One of them was still comatose, stretched out on the floor with his hands folded funereally over his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberbooks]
Patrick Henry Corridan, appeared, marching funereally toward the Gym., where a signal quiz was booked for seven forty-five. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
And as he went on talking to me of the past, no doubt to show he had not lost his memory, he evoked it funereally, yet without sadness. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
William smothers a laugh; the procession moves funereally, the faithful nurse watching it with an expression betokening intense anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
"They did us up -- that's all," he said funereally. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
When Drumley's voice finally came, it was funereally solemn. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Herbert especially rings in her ears, solemnly, funereally. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
"That wasn't all," Liddy's voice came funereally from a corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Circular Staircase] Reference
Herman Melville enters, and saunters funereally across to Taylor. From Wordnik.com. [Fifth Avenue] Reference
He saw the draped heap funereally dismal in the midst of the cloisters. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
The bell of the Roman Catholic cathedral tolls funereally across the city. From Wordnik.com. [Marketplace] Reference
"I expect you've heard about the poor Vicar," Mrs Hamps funereally insinuated. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
The cabman permitted the horse to do so and they again struggled funereally forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference
And one fragment of George Herbert especially rings in her ears, solemnly, funereally. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
The snow crunches under the feet; the chopper's axe rings funereally through the tragic air. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
Fiery serpents darted all ways at once among black boughs that swayed and moaned funereally. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
The sound of the bell, muffled funereally, at the back of the house, fulfilled her premonition. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Sisters] Reference
The foreground of the scene had grown funereally dark, and near objects put on the hues and shapes of chimaeras. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
The burning him in effigy in the campus, while the bell was funereally tolled, was but the beginning of the warfare against him. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference
Don was extending a left hand, funereally wrapped in a black silk handkerchief, further along the window-seat and away from the scene of action. From Wordnik.com. [Left Guard Gilbert] Reference
Once on the platform, she seated herself at the lower end of the funereally-draped table; and leaning her head on one hand, seemed lost in thought. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Power] Reference
We tried to make talk, but we could not, and we were funereally quiet, when Hasketh came pottering and peering in, and shook hands with both of us. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Patient Lovers] Reference
On all sides of the frozen lake over which they were travelling were hills covered with harsh pine, that pricked funereally up to the boulder-broken snows. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
She had on men's attire -- all black; a soft woolen stuff, intensely black, funereally black, not a speck of relieving color in it from her throat to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2] Reference
More minutes marched funereally by, and then he heard in the trench behind the sound of voices, and an order passed along the line to clamber back into the trench. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of a Trooper] Reference
Several French widows are talking together near the goat, their black veils hanging funereally; and there's a small boy with socks and a bowler hat, all black, too. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front] Reference
It was placed in the row of honor in the large, lofty drawing-room, hung with tapestry and damask curtains, and filled with funereally garbed men and powdered old dowagers. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Clemenceau] Reference
Yes, if it had been Irene, one could expect it, "remarked Mrs. Pemberton, funereally. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
The theater was funereally quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
The Count shook his head funereally. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
One must not take things funereally. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
"Ah'm awful 'glad, Mist' Wrenn," she said, funereally. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference
"You can go, Kitty," Miss Silence answered, funereally. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian Angel] Reference
“Ah’m awful’ glad, Mist’ Wrenn,” she said, funereally. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
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