The mourner is cheared, and the anxious have rest. From Wordnik.com. [Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music] Reference
Corporeal metaphors for the child appear often in the texts, especially when the mourner is not the biological mother. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
The bench upon which they are commanded to sit upon is called the mourner's bench. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker] Reference
The reflections of a mourner are a relentless accounting, and there is no bottom line. From Wordnik.com. [FrontPage Magazine] Reference
Humulity is better than volubility; here the mourner is the orator; sighs and groans are the best rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11] Reference
To call a mourner by his own name was considered an insult to the departed, and often led to fighting and bloodshed. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
Under the needle tree that drooped over their roof stood what had lately been renamed the 'mourner's bench.'. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
"mourner" at every revival for four years, but he never "came through.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference
The mourner is cheered, and the anxious have rest. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
He's like a mourner asking for a memento of the departed. From Wordnik.com. [IN THE JAWS OF KRONOS] Reference
Egyptian, as applied to a mourner or a singer at a funeral. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Even if he knew him well, his face changed when he saw a mourner. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
Persis laughed, thereby diminishing her resemblance to the mourner of. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"One would think you a model mourner, your visage is sufficiently woful.". From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
My best guess is someday we'll say that Obama didn't want to be a mourner. From Wordnik.com. [Bundy’s Blunders] Reference
I like Gadget stealing the flowers for the wedding from a mourner at the cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [TV Review: This Is England '86 and The Big School Lottery] Reference
In vain Solomon was sure his father would present a calf to the mourner for a pet. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
The bottle vanished, the ship docked, the mourner went home to get on with her life. From Wordnik.com. [I found a message in a bottle] Reference
After this came the Prince alone in his schollers gowne and hood as the chiefe mourner. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
D'Alembert was her truest mourner, and fell into a profound melancholy after her death. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
She did not walk with the rest, but at a proper and respectful distance from the last mourner. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Her testimony caused considerable rejoicing, as she was well known to all as a "long-time mourner.". From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894] Reference
Those words, few as they were, were uttered with many a pause, and in the low tone of a true mourner. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
So I paid and left, as the last pieces rained down, the crew outside looking at me as if I were a funeral mourner. From Wordnik.com. [Blackened Catfish] Reference
"Ways of Dying" tells the touchingly absurd tale of a "professional mourner" who is paid to moan and cry at funerals. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond The 'A' Word] Reference
Players Conventional Wisdom Clinton + Achieves "relevance" as mourner-in-chief, child-grief counselor, lord high executioner. From Wordnik.com. [Oklahoma City Bomb Edition] Reference
At the funeral the Professor had been the principal mourner, and the local paper had commented sympathetically on his evident emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
But the mourner had written to her old friend and confessor, Francis; and, after some delay, involuntary on his part, he came to see her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
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