The slate floor in the funeral-home foyer spotted with their tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dirty Job HTML]

Outside, he looked across the street toward a funeral-home parking lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good As Gold] Reference

Marguerite Blake, a former funeral-home director, has owned the home since 1951.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mansion of Circus's Bailey Is Offered for 35% Less] Reference

Tokyo funeral-home director Yutaka Nakashima recalls a recent workshop he hosted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Dying Industry] Reference

Thanks to this genetic taciturnity, I was well equipped to be a funeral-home worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working With Death Was No Way To Live] Reference

One had a typical American funeral-home cotillion; one was laid out at home in a homemade coffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Ms. Blake, a former funeral-home director, and a niece live in the house, which needs renovations.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYC House Built by Bailey, of Circus Fame, Goes on Sale] Reference

But suddenly his day's agenda was erased, and he'd become an inanimate component in the funeral-home process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working With Death Was No Way To Live] Reference

Kenneth Fallin To research her film, Ms. Wojtowicz-Vosloo visited morgues and hung out with funeral-home directors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Becomes Her] Reference

In it, a young woman, sporting a new hairstyle, is in a car accident and wakes on the cold slab of a funeral-home prep room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Becomes Her] Reference

Other funeral-home operators are watching to see whether the effort offsets the cremation trend as well as broader pressures, analysts say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Homes Fight Profit Squeeze] Reference

The six other characters-among them a numbers runner, a funeral-home owner, a waitress-have little use for the hortatory slogans of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Prophets And Profits] Reference

Learn from someone other than a funeral-home operator which goods and services state regulations require you to buy, and which are optional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planning for Your Funeral: Here's a Guide for Smart Shopping] Reference

"No one questioned us 10 years ago, so we could get away with charging high prices for big funeral packages," says a Kyoto-based funeral-home operator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Dying Industry] Reference

The section in "Billion-Dollar Lessons" on an ill-fated funeral-home rollup that produced "scale without economies" is titled: "Loewen Group -- R.I.P.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Expensive Mistakes] Reference

Buy stocks: As a group, the funeral-home stocks outperformed all other industries in 1990, which pretty much defines the kind of year most investors had (table).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide To Surviving The Long Siege Ahead] Reference

For those that don't remember, the Tombstone Fund was launched in 1997 with the purpose of investing in "death-care" stocks: funeral-home chains and casket makers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Back From the Grating-est Generation] Reference

AVC: How about this: Were the "tailies," particularly Eko, Libby, and Ana-Lucia, always going to be funeral-home fodder, or did you have other plans when you first introduced them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tail Section » The Onion AV Club Interviews Damon and Carlton] Reference

Best Death: "Six Feet Under" Granted, HBO's funeral-home drama has a stiff leg up on the competition, by virtue of the fact that someone dies in the opening minutes of every episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Sex Scene, Most Pointless Tv Cliffhanger, Worst Line In A Movie] Reference

This is the core of Six Feet Under, clumsily driven home by the high-concept funeral-home setup, yet delicately, empathically reinforced by the continued suffering of its characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Inches Under] Reference

She conducted dozens of interviews with people who had lost relatives, as well as funeral-home directors and grave diggers -- compiling descriptions and combing through reports for clues.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Louisiana,] Reference

Service Corp. International, the nation's largest funeral-home chain with more than 1,600 locations, is in the midst of an effort to turn cremations into a more positive financial contributor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Homes Fight Profit Squeeze] Reference

Last year alone, he was a smarmy funeral-home owner in.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News] Reference

Stewart Enterprises, the New Orleans-based cemetery and funeral-home operator, ranked 2,321.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

Another co-op represented was the People's Memorial Association, a funeral-home organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

"It wouldn't be an industry practice," said Adair, whose family has been in funeral-home business since 1956.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

In a time of economic hardship, high-capacity magazines keep employment levels up in the all-important funeral-home industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

So the lead car in a procession - normally one driven by funeral-home personnel, or sometimes by police - has to stop if the light is red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Stephen Miller] Reference

It had begun to rain, a terribly clichéd graveside drizzling rain, and the mourners were tightly packed under the funeral-home provided canopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [manybooks.net] Reference

While there is no upper age limit, most programs cannot accept bodies that have undergone autopsy or funeral-home embalming, or if the donor had certain.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

However, the shifty funeral-home director is only a sketch, as is the body-parts broker who goes by the silly name of Joe Black and tries to capitalize on the Brad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Meanwhile, a shadowy and sleazy man who calls himself a body-parts broker has arrived in Pensacola and is making friends with a financially strapped funeral-home director.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

As them come in, mi deh pon them case, man, "said the funeral-home operator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamaica Gleaner Online] Reference