Man's introduction could be understood as the uncomfortable relation between obsequiousness and obsequy, that is, between the awkward coincidence of following one's teachers and issuing their burial rites. close window. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...''] Reference
Elizabeth's address is a kind of obsequy over, or elegy for, realism. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbing the Peace] Reference
The next stanza speaks of "Dye Apguylamys," who is told to prepare the obsequy for Love, and of "Lady Apylton," who had offered a "mass-penny," and the epitaph ends with these stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849] Reference
And "You knew Mr. Bowen was no longer living?" she said, with fit obsequy of tone. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Summer] Reference
I was glad when it was over; our own simple service, read by the merest layman, would surely have been a more fitting obsequy. From Wordnik.com. [Border and Bastille] Reference
The baylan gave a talk or a prolix prayer, and finished by saying: "May the dead receive that obsequy, by giving good fortune to the living.". From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
Timber City was goin 'to be the very last doggone drink I was ever goin' to get, I'd kind of strung it along a little -- sort of sipped it slow an 'solemn as become an obsequy. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Flowers] Reference
While no memorial and no response can be "adequate" to the destruction, there is a sense in this episode that the visitors have accomplished a needed obsequy: they have imagined and they have felt. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Wherever a red coat appeared it had its honorable obsequy in the popular interest, and if I might venture to sum up my impression of what I saw of soldiering in London I should say that it keeps its romance for the spectator far more than soldiering does in the Continental capitals, where it seems a slavery consciously sad and clearly discerned. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
Keep the obsequy so strict. From Wordnik.com. [The Phoenix and the Turtle] Reference
So this will be no new obsequy. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:] Reference
Foully debarred from lawful obsequy. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
With silent obsequy and funeral train, 1735. From Wordnik.com. [Samson Agonistes: Lines 1500-1761] Reference
Him now with pious obsequy lament —. From Wordnik.com. [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference
How the mud goes round in the mind — what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and again through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the people one never meets again. From Wordnik.com. [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference
How the mud goes round in the mind – what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and again through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the people one never meets again. From Wordnik.com. [Monday or Tuesday] Reference
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