The media exequies for Cronkite we9re no surprise, of course: there is no undertaker like television, and he was its own. From Wordnik.com. [By the Blight of the Silvery Moon: Mad Men Postmortem: James Wolcott] Reference
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Feckless Andy, late for his former teacher's funeral, sidles into the wrong chapel at Richmond crematorium and finds himself at the sparsely attended exequies of one Christopher Madigan. From Wordnik.com. [Angelina Jolie Biography, Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story': Book Review Roundup] Reference
More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepulchral cells of pismires, and practice of bees, — which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial] Reference
Herevpon, he was condemned, drawen, and hanged in his friers wéed, to the great confusion of his brethren; but they made earnest instance to haue his bodie taken downe, and buried with diriges and exequies, and had their sute granted. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV] Reference
Waltham, celebrated the exequies for the buriall, none of the nobles nor anie of the commons (to accompt of) being present: neither was there anie to bid them to dinner after they had laid him in the ground, and finished the funerall seruice. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV] Reference
THE ABBÉ called them, in the evening, to attend the exequies of Mignon. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VIII. Book VIII] Reference
Francis died, and the clerks and priests were at the bier for to sing the exequies of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims] Reference
Their exequies are thus freed from the artificial, grotesque, and pagan horror given by obscene mutes, frightful hearse, horses, and feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
Lord, and thou oughtest to bear this palm of light at the exequies of chastity and holiness, thou that drankest at the fountain of perdurable clearness. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 4] Reference
All the apostles shall assemble this day to thee and shall make to thee noble exequies at thy passing, and in the presence of them thou shalt give up thy spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 4] Reference
These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.] Reference
He had in his fellowship chariots, carts and horsemen, and was a great tourbe and company, and came over Jordan where as they hallowed the exequies by great wailing seven days long. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
At all events, there is no trace of any answer by Milton to this long epistle from Dati, or of any poetical contribution sent by him, as Dati had requested, to the exequies of the interesting Rovai. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepulchral cells of pismires, and practice of bees, -- which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference
A manne (not altogether causeles) mighte merueile, that thei could not be contente to constitute lawes for the framyng of the maners of those that are onliue, but also put ordre for the exequies, and Hearses of the deade. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.] Reference
As it were hung so for her exequies!. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Trinitäll Hall's exequies, 203. 252. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
To celebrate your fathers exequies. From Wordnik.com. [Act the First. Scene I] Reference
But see his exequies fulfill'd in Rouen. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of King Henry VI] Reference
Is dead; all fowls her exequies frequent!. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
But see his exequies fulfilld in Roan: 148. From Wordnik.com. [Act III. Scene II. First Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference
Thtre yet remain'd thy funeral exequies. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
On Trinitäll Hall's exequies, 203. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
But see his exequies fulfill’d in Rouen. From Wordnik.com. [The First part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference
On allusion in Trinitäll Hall's exequies, 252. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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