| 单词 | bier |
| 例句 | The mourners who had come with Sheik Hassoun filed to the bier and he read passages from the Koran. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then passing through the door he took Faramir from the deadly house and laid him on the bier on which he had been brought, and which had now been set in the porch. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Then the prince went from his horse, and knelt by the bier in honour of the king and his great onset; and he wept. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Sutues of saints, and of crusaders on their biers, or those pretending to be crusaders; effigies of all kinds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then Charles and Pomp lit the staircase on fire, and we left the man to burn upon this bier. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Granny first, though hardly able to walk; then Durgan; Kannan with his wife, bearing a few jasmine buds; and Kali, bringing with her a muslin cloth to cover the bier. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a shroud I weave for Lord Laertes when cold Death comes to lay him on his bier. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Taylor and the high church officials were the first to file around the bier to wave farewell to the departed and get a glimpse of what lay in store for all men. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Butterflies flew in and out of the bunches of field flowers now loosened from the top of the bier and lying in a small heap at the edge of the grave. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Lying on cushions, as if she really were ill, she braided her long hair and rolled it about her ears as death had told her it should be on her bier. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then Gandalf and Beregond taking up the bier bore it away towards the Houses of Healing, while behind them walked Pippin with downcast head. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Upon this rough bier they carried the body of their companion to the shore, together with such trophies of his last battle as they chose to send forth with him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It is a shroud I weave for Lord Laertes, when cold death comes to lay him on his bier. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The women who shrieked over the bier and at the lip of the open grave. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At those words Denethor’s eyes flamed again, and taking the Stone under his arm he drew a knife and strode towards the bier. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She moved away from him and went right up to the bier. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a shroud I weave for Lord Laertes when cold Death comes to lay him on his bier. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There the bier was placed on a specially prepared altar in the middle of the floor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan prepares the bier, I see him lifting the body on to it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They pay their respects in silence, and when the sun has risen, the men pick up the bier and depart; but the women stay behind, for this is the custom. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Kendra considered her need, bier grandparents and brother were about to be killed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z On two of the nearer lakes, four dancers were afloat, each motionless on a raft as if lifeless on a bier. Trisha Brown Dances Animate a Scottish Landscape 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Its composition also suggests an Orthodox Christian icon – the objects isolated in light instead of gold leaf; the biers echoing the black shapes on the icons of the Nativity and the Resurrection. The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi? ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:23Z Audiences members are selected, carried away on a moving bier and then installed in a cart, which is then moved about the space. Cart Macabre ? review 2010-12-05T22:46:00Z But other images — Christine McMillan acting distressed up on the balcony, Joshua Palmer carried high as if on a bier — worried the placid surface. Dance Review: Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance at Danspace Project 2012-06-29T23:23:49Z "To Have and To Hold" opens strikingly, with supine dancers piled on the benches as if on overloaded biers, but they soon roll, spring, slide and catapult to life. UW's Chamber Dance revives haunting 'Hold' 2011-10-14T17:23:04Z Four are about to lift her bier — you can sense from their postures that they are anticipating its weight — while others whisper among themselves or stare in numbed sorrow. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Robert Leo Hulseman, creator of the red Solo cup In retrospect the undertaker Made a big mistake By letting fans of Solo cups Arrange that bier pong wake. Style Invitational Week 1212: The Tile Invitational IV 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The coffin, covered by a wooden framework painted with the symbols of the revolution, was placed on a bier surrounded by a semicircle of willows. A Place in My Country by WG Sebald – extract 2013-04-20T07:00:21Z In the back room, two empty biers—moveable frames used to transport caskets—wait in front of vast stainless steel cabinets. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Sorrow shed her lonely tear, Let Revelry hold her ladle!Bring boughs of cypress for the bier, Fling roses on the cradle:Mutes to wait on the funeral state! Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z Well, that and the viscera-pink gooey stuff that keeps dropping off the suspended bier, bearing an inhumanly human cargo, which hangs ominously above the panel. Theater Review: Radiohole’s ‘Inflatable Frankenstein’ at the Kitchen 2013-01-06T22:46:36Z Three dead Marinas lie on their biers at the beginning of Robert Wilson's The Life and Death of Abramović, premiered last weekend at the Lowry. Manchester international festival: Room with no view 2011-07-11T20:30:01Z The biers look like hospital stretchers, only sturdier and missing the mattresses. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z When the pallbearers in a royal funeral procession suddenly start to shimmy and jive beneath the Pharaonic bier, this production achieves a giddy but potent satirical lightness that it seldom otherwise rises to. Review: ‘Fit for a Queen’ Sees ‘Dynasty’ Centuries Before the TV Show 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Take the opening – three forms lie on three black biers; each pale face, framed by long dark hair, looks like Abramović. The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi? ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:23Z The earth, it seems, has been randomly sampled and laid out on beds and biers and strange pedestals in a state of uncanny suspended animation. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z On stage, a single rectangular box serves as a bench for the lovers' moonings in the second act and as a bier for the dying Tristan in the third. Tristan und Isolde 2010-09-24T20:29:00Z That engagement will feature the second act of Graham’s “Clytemnestra,” with Noguchi’s spears, throne, bier and other props; also on the program are Graham’s “Maple Leaf Rag” and two works by other choreographers. The painful truth about those Noguchi stage designs 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Our guide, a reedy-voiced woman with a flashlight and glow-in-the-dark sneakers, led us into a room done up like a funeral parlor—a casket on a bier, a spray of potent-smelling flowers. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z “The Sacrifice of Isaac” pictures Abraham about to slay his son, who kneels passively on a stone bier. Art Review: ‘Antonio Canova: The Seven Last Works’ Debuts at the Met 2014-01-23T22:50:58Z In Rafah, in the south, men strode behind a body being carried on a bier, Palestinian and Hamas flags raised behind. Gazans say nowhere to go as they prepare for Israeli assault after Hamas raid 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Funeral biers would come, and if there was a shortage of funeral biers, some other flat table or something or other would be used to place the corpses on. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z She was cremated, and her ashes were taken on a “flower-decked bier” to Red Square during a funeral tribute, according to Associated Press accounts at the time. New Hampshire history marker for communist draws GOP anger 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “I owe him a lot and this for me was really a gift to be able to pray for an hour on his bier.” Thousands pour into St. Peter’s for funeral of Benedict XVI 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z As of Tuesday night, about 135,000 people had filed past the former pope, who has been lying in state without any papal regalia on a catafalque, a raised bier, before the basilica's main altar. Pope Francis praises Benedict as Vatican prepares for funeral 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z On Sunday, Benedict’s body lay on a burgundy-colored bier in the chapel of the monastery. Pope marks New Year as Vatican prepares to mourn Benedict 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z When it flowed regularly, sturdy reeds grew on its banks which the Yaqui used to build everything from houses to funeral biers. Mexico is world’s deadliest spot for environmental activists 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Friday evening’s solemn procession of decorated funeral biers, or Epitaphs, once again was fully attended. AP PHOTOS: Greeks celebrate Easter without restrictions 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Bad: End your day on a cold bier. Style Invitational Week 1472: Phony money 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z As the Rotunda slowly emptied, as each person paid their final respects by simply being present and standing close to the bier displaying Sicknick’s remains, the end was much like the beginning. Perspective | A plea for forgiveness before we forget 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z There will be no Good Friday processions behind the flower-bedecked symbolic bier of Christ, to the haunting hymn of the Virgin Mary’s lament for the death of her son. Lockdown weighs heavily on Orthodox Christians during Easter 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “That river bears our name. That is where animals live, our medical plants, our reeds live. We don’t have reeds anymore,.” When someone dies, relatives have to buy reeds to make their funeral bier. Mexico is world’s deadliest spot for environmental activists 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z If you want to go more traditional, try a German bier in a stein or boot. See what’s brewing at the 2019 Fremont Oktoberfest 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z A group of nuns approached the bier, chanted a psalm and crossed themselves. Sri Lanka’s gantlet of grief: Home after modest home turned into makeshift funeral parlors 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Navy Yard workers carried a bier labeled, “The Kaiser’s Funeral.” She awed the country before Amelia Earhart even took to the skies 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z And judging from the image of her walking away from President H.W.’s bier at the Capitol rotunda, so does she. C.I.A. Briefing on Khashoggi Solidifies Senators’ View of Prince Mohammed’s Complicity 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The ordeal of the bier was just one of several divine interventions used as tangible evidence. How "Talking" Corpses Were Once Used to Solve Murders 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Fremont Oktoberfest, inspired by Germany’s fall tradition, offers more than 80 seasonal beers from 40 breweries in the Tasting Garden, including traditional German biers. Fall brings festival fun with Oktoberfest, St. Demetrios Greek Festival, Festa Italiana 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z There is a lingering assumption here that American beer is nothing more than a watered-down imitation of the bier that Germans like to think is one of their most important gifts to the world. California beer maker has the last laugh in his German brewery 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Draped in the French tricolour, her coffin was carried into the museum’s courtyard by members of the Republican Guard and set down on the cobbles on a wooden bier. French rights champion Simone Veil given coveted place in Panthéon 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Yun, accompanied by two American doctors, saw Warmbier on Monday and demanded his release on humanitarian grounds. State Dept. official met with the 3 Americans still being held in North Korea 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In one rare account of the ordeal of the bier being applied to a woman, a Maryland man named Thomas Mertine was accused of beating his female servant Catherine Lake to death in 1660. How "Talking" Corpses Were Once Used to Solve Murders 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Family members held aloft the bier, which was covered with roses. ‘Down with Trump’ signs and tears at funeral for Kansas shooting victim in India 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The funeral bier that had been pushed through the streets by boys wearing tragedy and comedy masks from Shakespeare’s alma mater, King Edward VI School, was parked up on the road. Selfies, puns and codpieces galore at the Shakespeare street festival 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Scalia’s eight Supreme Court colleagues, his family and nearly 100 former law clerks watched solemnly as Supreme Court police placed the casket on a funeral bier first used after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Mourners Pay Respects to Justice Scalia at Supreme Court 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z It will be placed on a historic raised bier built in 1865 to support the body of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Obama among those to pay respects to Scalia at U.S. Supreme Court 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Relatives gathered around their loved ones, with one woman collapsing when the body of her brother was brought in on a bier. In earthquake’s deadly aftermath, Nepalis grieve the loss of their sacred landmarks 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The bier carrying the shrouded body of one teacher was strewn with flowers as men crowded around it. Pakistan mourns its school dead 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The bed seems cold and uninviting, a funeral bier with a mattress skirt. When the wife is away on business, the tidy homestead reverts to Planet Bachelor There was the ordeal of the bier, used to assess guilt in murder trial by seeing whether the corpse would begin to bleed again when touched by the accused; if yes, that meant guilt. Game of Thrones and the Case for Trial by Combat 2014-05-12T21:13:00Z The 50 objects hint at politics and power — in a gallery on the second floor are the laurel leaves that lined Lincoln’s bier when his body lay in state at City Hall. City Room: Revisiting History Through Objects, and a Long-Gone Game Show 2013-07-22T19:05:21Z The first video the group released showed a crowd of chanting mourners bearing a shrouded body on a bier along a street. UN calls for new Syria government 2012-06-30T21:23:50Z Forty-eight years, strange to tell, He bore the bier and toll’d the bell, And faithfully discharged his trust, In “earth to earth” and “dust to dust.” Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z The body is then placed on a bier and carried to the Towers of Silence, or “dakhmehs,” by men specially set apart for that purpose. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z Under other local customs, the priest claimed as a perquisite the bier on which a corpse was brought to his church, leading, in case of resistance, to quarrels more lively than edifying. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z And he came up to the bier on which the dead lay, and those who bore it stood still. Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood 2012-04-13T02:00:19.530Z So he entered the chapel, lighted his taper, closed his eyes, made the sign of the cross, and enclosed himself in a circle marked with the coal near the head of the bier. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z She died seven years after her husband, and, as at the funeral of Raphael, her latest pictures were borne after her bier. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z For when Cicero lay dead, she went to the orator's bier and thrust a bodkin through the once magic tongue; thus punishing the tongue, she explained, for its calumnies against her beloved husband. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Near the statue of St. Paul, according to custom, were placed three biers, each with four lighted torches. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As Candlemas day should be pleasant and clear. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z On the way he passes through a town where the traffic is diverted from the main street because of a corpse which has long been lying on a bier before a church. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z He was buried with distinguished honors, the bier being carried by two marquises and four knights, and followed by a great concourse of people. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Oh! well, with spirit bow'd, Above his bier May a broad empire crowd, With prayer and tear! The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z On the frieze is the sacred river Jordan, as an aged man, borne on a bier. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The Arabians thought that the four stars in the quadrilateral represented a bier, and the three in the “tail” the children of the deceased following as mourners! Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z Looking closer at the bier before the lighted altar a human figure was outlined under the dark pall. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Meanwhile fiends pluck the corse down in the gloom, And on their burning shoulders, as a bier, Convey the burden to its nameless doom. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The two slaves stood near the bier, and the excitable temperament and violent grief of the poor Africans contrasted with the stern, and solemn, and composed countenances around them. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z The becchini are taken from the lowest classes of the people, and hired to carry the corpse on the bier and to accompany it to the church and cemetery. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z You see biers and litters issuing from almost every gate, and the better ranks are no longer spared. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z The following day, All Souls', these vergers were dressed in mourning, and in the center of the black-draped church was placed, with true Spanish realism, a covered bier. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z But a second glance failed to discover either litter or bier; and a nearer approach showed that the travellers, whether they wore the tonsure or not, bore weapons of one kind or another about them. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z After the bier walked great crowds of Mas'aniello's followers, those ragamuffin soldiers who but a few days earlier had stormed down this street in triumph, sacking and destroying where they pleased. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z If it be the funeral of a person of wealth or a noble, it takes place at a late hour, the procession of frati is long, and the bier elegant. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z It was in allusion to the rise and fall of legislative independence that Grattan, years subsequently, so beautifully said, "I watched its cradle; I followed its bier." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Before the altar was what appeared to be a black covered bier, so I thought we must have stumbled on some special service for the dead. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Jesus, moved with compassion, approached the bier and laid his hand on it. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Now they walked mournfully and slow, as well they might, for liberty lay upon the bier they followed, and the Spanish tyranny was about to close over them again. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Then it is slid upon the bier, and over it is drawn the black velvet pall with golden trimmings, on which a cross, death's head, and bones are embroidered. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The bier of General Jackson has lately passed, upbearing a golden urn. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z No one appeared to notice what was to me so terrifying, yet they were gazing over the bier at the altar. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z In front of the Ashland home, on a bier covered with flowers, stood the iron coffin. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z The stranger asked, "Is that man in the bier dead, or is he still alive?" Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z All the frati and becchini, except the four who carry the bier, are furnished with wax candles, for no one is buried in Rome without a candle. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z All was still within, for the church was empty; but before the altar, on a splendid bier, lay the body of a young man, who had been killed in the war. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z I fastened my eyes on the round head of the bier, and again it moved, but this time so thoroughly moved that the mystery was solved. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z That of the Dottor Parigino is more particularly celebrated, in which, having raised himself on his bier, he declares his state of reprobation. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z Lastly, when he saw the bier and asked, 'Is that man dead or alive?' he meant, 'Has that man any children? Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z Many a tear was shed over that bier, many a flower was scattered around her, whose fate all mourned—whose innocence none questioned. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Then she looked up and saw a white angel standing on the other side of the bier, and she knew it was Death. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z We are told that when the Apostles carried the bier to the grave, near the Garden of Gethsemani, all the faithful accompanied them, and the Angels never ceased their singing. Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady 2012-02-25T03:00:09.890Z One bier bore the body of a man; the other, the body of a woman. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z But the youngest child, a boy of five years old, who followed the bier along with the rest, wept bitterly. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z Our friend, about whose bier we stand, was in the highest, noblest sense a man. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z They stood at the head of the coffin as it rested on the bier during the prayer. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z Not half the men uncovered for the bier, although I was glad to see the cherry cap whisked off. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Through the arch is seen a chamber, in which there seems to be a bier, and near it a cross. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z A time of lamentation was observed, during which his wooden image was washed and anointed, and laid upon a bier, which the priests carried about with their garments rent and beards shorn. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z England's flag may well be furled Over the young hero's bier, Whose memory is to England dear. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:21.910Z “The statesman wins the mantle of a peer, The warrior boasts all titles of renown; We leave one laurel only on his bier, And England’s love is greater than a crown.” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Again, a group of workmen, allowed to enter the car, fell on their knees before the bier and prayed. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z They bore the body of Frederick of Telramund on a bier, which they placed before the King. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z He stood with his mother's arm in his while the coffin, covered with flowers, was taken out of the purple-lined van, and lifted on to a hand bier. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z Thy mother ne'er shall place Thee on thy bier, nor on thy body weep, But swift Scamander on his giddy tide Shall bear thee to the bosom of the sea. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z In Germany a bier was placed in the midst of the lists, accuser and accused stood respectively at the head and foot, and remained for some minutes in profound silence before they commenced fighting. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z They likewise hire a number of women, who make this horrid noise round the bier, over which they scratch their faces, to such a degree, that they appear to have been bled with a lancet. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Down the path from the Wartburg, the Knights were bearing a bier. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z Her son is delivered to his mother from the bier. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Above this is the death of St. Martin, with a graceful 205 flight of angels hovering over the bier singing as they prepare to carry his soul to heaven. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Throughout the 26th and 27th a vast train of people, officially estimated at 250,000, and drawn from every rank and class, moved in unbroken procession past the bier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z When ready for the pile, the body was borne forth on a bier. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Making a low obeisance, he strode toward the bier of the dead Frederick. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z Her son is delivered to his mother from the bier R. Wi. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Many, many, there are many Who no more are with me here, As cherished, as beloved as any Whom I have seen upon the bier. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z During the night of the 25th of May his body was conveyed from Hawarden to London and the coffin was placed on a bier in Westminster Hall. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The corpse is washed with camphor, wrapped in a white sheet, and laid upon a bier. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z When I am dead, lave me in wine, and of the wood of the vine make my coffin and bier. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Out from his bloodied vesture his comely limbs they drew, And wash'd his wound wide-gaping, and laid him on the bier. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z This laurel-leaf I cast upon thy bier; Let worthier hands than these thy wreath entwine; Upon thy hearse I shed no useless tear,— For us weep rather thou in calm divine. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z I love to think that those I loved May gather round the bier Of him, who, whilst he erring proved, Still held them more than dear. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Over the bier is thrown a pall; and, at the head, the turban of the deceased. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z A few convalescent officers had followed the bier. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Umber the sodden reaches seemed and seer As when the dying year, With rime-white sandals shod, Faltered and fell upon its frozen bier. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z As I went forth to take the air Intill an evening clear, And there I spied a lady fair Making a heavy bier. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 2011-12-28T03:00:36.217Z He dropt a tear on Susan's bier, He seemed a most despairing swain; But bluer sky brought newer tie, And—would he wish her back again? A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z A few days ago, I administered a merited rebuke to a group of young sextons, who had gathered together, after a funeral, and were seated upon a barrow bier, before an unclosed tomb. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z It is likewise said, that the body of Alcmena was lost as they were carrying it to the grave, and a stone was seen lying on the bier in its stead. The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z Her corpse was taken to the auto-da-f� on a bier, and burnt with her effigy. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z He approached and touched the bier, and the biermen stood still. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z A bier was contrived of sticks from a rough fence that marked the boundary of the deer-forest, and the body was lifted from the frozen ground on which it lay. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z The body, plainly robed in white, was borne on an open bier, the hands crossed and head supported on pillows, thus allowing the long unfettered hair to hang down loose below. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z There was a funeral cortege, and the mourners sitting by the bier; while the priests, with their incantations, mummeries and ceremonies, and genuflections, just by. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z The musicians burst forth into a playful, merry waltz, taking up their position behind the bier, and behind them, all the curious people ran along the little road to the farm in compact groups. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z He said to the people and to the magician, "Draw near to the bier, and believe that his preaching is true who raises the dead to life." The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z They have not yet heard of the tragic event which ended the last act, and are therefore surprised when a bier is carried in and placed solemnly before them. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z And his people raised the bier and carried it before him; and in this manner they marched slowly to Bruga of the Boyne. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z His bier was carried by four marquesses and four knights. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z She had with her own hands helped to lay her out on the bier, and had put over her face a fine linen handkerchief, of which she had a goodly store, as may be imagined. Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga 2011-11-12T03:00:38.073Z The bier which bare the dead is the heedless mind of the hopeless sinful. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Yet is the Voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touch'd the bier— The bearers wait with wondering eye, The swelling bosom dares not sigh, But all is still, 'twixt hope and fear. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z Then he caused the body to be placed on a golden bier, with the hero's javelins fixed one on each side, points upwards. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z Though we could hardly see each other, or the bier, we took our place at the gangway, and I at once began to read the beautiful service for the burial of the dead at sea. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z When the beneficent viceroy could no longer interfere with the selfish interests of the multitude, crowds flocked around his bier to honor his harmless remains. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z The noble army of the West and that of Northern Virginia escorted him for the last time, and the Washington Artillery, now gray-haired men, were the guard of honor to his bier. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Little but sin & misery here, Till we be carried on our bier. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z “Death is coming to Alcestis the queen where she lies on a bier in the temple of the gods.” The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles 2011-10-31T02:00:27.780Z I was standing near Some hapless seaman's simple bier. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z He who could leave the bier of a murdered friend to visit vengeance on the head of the murderer was no weakling. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Let my bier be borne at dawn, Summer grows so sweet, Deep into the forest green Where boughs meet. A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z The long, straight outlines of the coffin set high upon a bier, the candles burning at the head, and in the shadow at the coffin's side a deeper shadow on the floor. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Mrs. Vernon, I saw the Germans place his body on a bier and carry it away to a house removed from the line of battle. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z Reader! with eye indignant view this bier; The foe of all the human race lies here. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z The green grass waves in silence over his grave, and now the plow of the husbandman turns the greensward at his side, where once the forest trees majestically waved over his rude bier. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The body, enclosed in a canvas sack and weighted with iron, was laid upon a latticed bier close to the opened gangway. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z Some distance behind them was a band of women, and between the two bands was a kind of bier, drawn by a horse, with plumes at each of the four corners. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z We, too, drop a tear upon his bier and shall ever hold in grateful remembrance his many acts of kindness to a benighted race. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z The sexton of a joy, So lately slain,—so lately on its bier Laid out in state,—I dare not, for the fear Of this dead thing, regard it as a toy. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z Like monumental bronze, unchanged his look, As one whom pity touched, but never shook; Train'd from his tree-rocked cradle to his bier The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z The body was borne aloft on a bier, which was adorned with gems; the winding-sheet was of purple; his whole army, native and foreign, marched in war array to his grave. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Bertram, with sinking heart and sick feelings of horror, watched these blood-stained biers, with their apparently lifeless burdens, file over the bridge, and held his breath whenever a stretcher-bearer stumbled on the greasy logs. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z An' w'en from Lac St. Francis Come de Greenland Grenadier He'll mak' all Yankee man he meet Go home de top his bier. By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z Have they no thought of dews that, like a tear, Were shed by Morning on the Night's cold bier, In far-off English homes, belov'd by all men here? Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z For when they came at dawn of day To lift the lady's corpse away, Her bier was holding twain. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z And there is a stark stillness in the midst of them, Stretched upon a bier. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Stiff, composed and straight is the body of Jesus laid on the bier. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z They laid her on a bier, and all seven sat down and bewailed her and lamented over her for three whole days. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z The Grandmother of the Gnomes walked past each bier, sprinkling it with the liquid from a vial in her hand. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z A bier was brought, and on this bier the person of the unfortunate cheesemonger was placed, and borne to the police office. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z All he could do was to gaze upon the bier. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z She moved sombrely about the room, like one walking behind the bier of her dead. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z But with her there was no taking away the bier and the corpse. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z What was their fury to find the biers empty, and a long line of stalwart men, led by Hilda, escaping through a doorway in the solid rock! The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z He was wont to follow biers and pray over the dead, and in the mosque on Fridays he would often enter the pulpit and address the people. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z At Nain He will touch the bier and arrest the bearers. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The bier was covered with roses and myrtle wreaths; and thus the procession moved slowly on. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z O, yes,—upon the bier, His watch no more to keep. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z There, on a bier richly hung with velvet, lay a young and lovely maiden, apparently dead, save that her cheeks bloomed like a new-blown rose. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z He walked erect, his eyes fixed on the bier and his dead father's head. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z The bearers of the widow's son halted, expectant, when this majestic and tender Wayfarer touched the bier. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Leonardus commanded that he should be laid on a bier, carried down to the church, and placed before the high altar, which was accordingly done. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z One night as he was reeling home from a debauch he saw a funeral procession approaching him, the open bier surrounded by torch-bearing priests. Murillo 2011-08-02T02:00:19.967Z Just then a weasel, running from behind the altar, passed near the bier, which angered the knight, who, at one blow, struck the little animal dead upon the ground. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z On a bier, carried by six men, was the corpse, the feet foremost, wrapped in a white cloth, not in a coffin, so that the outlines of the form were distinctly visible. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z This was supported on a high bier, richly covered with black velvet, forty-two wax candles burning around it. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z It was found that the bier on which she was placed could not be carried through the wicket-door behind the altar. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z The two corpses still locked in a fast embrace lay upon the same bier. Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague 2011-07-27T02:00:26.233Z There, in the centre, stood a bier covered with cloth of gold and surrounded by blazing wax-lights, while about it knelt an hundred priests, at prayer. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z At last the bier was brought in; the broken bush was placed on it, with the leaves which had been carefully gathered up; a white pall was spread over all, and then they departed. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Yet still the decease of gifts follows fast on their birth, and parents are oftener called beside the bier of these children of the sun than to their nuptials or coronation. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z The Abbess, supported by two nuns, walked close behind the bier. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z The shepherd and lay-brethren it is, who go forth with torches and biers from the Hospice of Saint Valentine in the moor, which pious faith has erected for the lost traveller here in the wilderness. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Freyer hastened out and shook the snow from some pine branches to adorn the bier. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z She knew what they were—the corpse-lights that on the night of death go between the bier and the place of burial. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z The Bishop mentioned a "total abstinence" preacher who could find nothing more suitable than "The young men who carried the bier stood still"! A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z He was dragged by cords down from the scaffold, and tied on a bier. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z The night at last when I again shall clasp her And banish death to biers beyond the stars! The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z Then the coffin was put on the bier, and they heard the feet of those in the Toili moving away from the house. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z On the bier was a corpse, covered with a canvas sheeting that looked like a sail. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Brathwaite’s Horse, with arms reversed, formed the principal guard of honour, the improvised bier being borne by the dead man’s most intimate friends. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Below a flaming altar stood the bishop's bier. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z He died a few weeks after his arrival, and the Emperor walked behind his bier, in the funeral procession. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z Then the door opened, and the body, wrapped in white linen, was carried out and borne onward upon a bier by four men. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z With that the two men turned and moved slowly towards the bier. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Two sentinels with drawn swords watched day and night beside the dead, two were stationed at the doors, and two stood on each step leading to the bier. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z At the extreme end stood the bier and improvised altar. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z A funeral emerged from a court hard by—a funeral which was composed of the clergyman, an old man weeping over his dead, and tottering feebly after, and four negroes carrying the bier. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Crouching on the ground at the foot of the bier was an old man clad in a cassock-like garment of dingy green alpaca. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z A considerable number of women, hired for the purpose, followed the bier, uttering plaintive cries. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z The persons composing the household of the Emperor and Empress followed the bier dressed in long black mantles, bearing in their hands lighted torches. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z In all probability these same vigorous men would carry the old brother on his bier to the little cemetery, where he might displace the whitened bones of some monk long dead and forgotten. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z He approached the bier, looked nervously at the face of the dead girl, could not help shuddering slightly, and involuntarily closed his eyes. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z On a low bier in the centre of the room lay the dead body of a young man clad in green robes, his face frightfully disfigured from the effects of small-pox. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z When it got near to the little church of S. Vittore, it was seen that only women followed the bier, which was carried by women. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The presence-chamber was hung with black, and the bier was covered with cloth of gold. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z If to sleep, Sleeping, to dream, and dreaming, live again The years that now lie white upon their bier. Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z She will not rise from her bier, since she fears God's word. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z He passed close to the head of the bier, pushed the curtain to one side, opened the door, and entered the room into which he had been looking from the street. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z The deceased, a stout, swarthy man of about fifty, had been fond of field sports; he was, therefore, laid on his open bier in the dress of a hunter. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The sarcophagus was within a magnificent catafalque; the canopy rested on Corinthian columns; the bier was apparently supported by six urns, while three pearl-colored eagles surmounted the canopy, holding in their beaks the swinging crape. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Lady Capulet, in a paroxysm of maternal grief, has thrown herself on her knees at the foot of the bier; behind her is the Friar. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z When they had walked some twenty paces, the bier was hidden by the house. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z At the head and foot of the bier stood braziers on which scented woods were burning, and the almost invisible fumes which arose caused the smell which he had perceived. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Death is to him the affair of a not cheerful religious ceremony—a cross borne before a black draped bier, and bells tolling dolefully. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The body was placed upon the bier, surrounded by significant offerings, pure flowers and laurel-wreaths. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z In the foreground are the bodies of the lovers, placed on a bier. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z Upon this earthen bier he laid his flowers down, like a funeral garland, and then went home. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Sir Launcelot had fled to France For the peace of Guinevere, And many a noble knight was slain, And Arthur lay on his bier. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z Then they return, clothe themselves in white dresses, and take up their position beside the bier. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z About 100 men and women follow, wailing as they go, while on each side of the coffin—a very unsightly structure borne on a rude bier—walk the black-robed priests, evidently of the Greek Church. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z The man's faith wavered, but Columba was watching over his converts; and after doing what he could to console the grief of the boy's parents, asked to be left alone beside the bier to pray. Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland 2011-05-10T02:00:58.153Z A rustic funeral was passing slowly by; the bier was a man's shoulder, and on it tottered a child's rude coffin. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z When the circuit rider reached the clearing the mass of awed humanity parted and opened an aisle leading to the mammoth bier, where smiling death reposed, cradled amidst billows of blossoms. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The body, bound to a raft or bier, was committed to the current of the river, with a sum of money called the "drue de mourtalage" attached to it. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z In a hollow lined with crusted snow and overhung with naked forest-trees, they had laid the young chief Metacomet upon a rude bier formed of evergreen branches, with the foliage fresh upon them. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z But when I told her the bitter end Of the stern and just award, She leaned o'er the bier, and thrice three times She kissed the lips of her lord. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Fellner opened it at once, read it, meditated; and approaching the bier gazed at his dead friend. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z These tender tributes were carefully placed on the couch of laurel until it rose to a great bier of fragrant petals. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z One runs to pluck flowers, a second to gather roses; they twine her a garland, a bridal crown—will she depart all the same, lying upon her bier? Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z How can we linger over the bier of the departed and go in the eventide to their graves, and sit down in the stillness there, hoping in some way to come in communion with them. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Life is embittered to him; hope has died: if love follow it sadly to the bier, who can blame him? Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z Benedict looked round, seized a handkerchief that was lying on the bier, still perfumed and damp with the poor girl's tears, and rushed from the room. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z His towering figure moved on toward the bier and his clean-shaven features were drawn in a terrible sorrow. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z He makes haste to reach the village; on the way he meets the bier of his betrothed. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Acting President Gamburdo has ordered a hand-picked elite corps of army and navy officers to maintain a twenty-four-hour watch over the bier.' The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z The spectacular public commemorations, involving flower-strewn funeral biers on Good Friday and fireworks on Saturday night, bring the islanders together, rather than highlighting division. Easter: A date with God 2011-04-20T11:06:02Z There came a sound of singing on my ear, And slowly glided through the far-off door A glimmer of grey forms like ghosts, they bore A dead man lying on his purple bier. Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf 2011-04-20T02:00:22.033Z Gallants and warriors and men of note who loved the maiden, alive or dead, stood about her bier and made a hedge with themselves and their bright swords. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Such I require, Such I desire, Rose-crowned, so To the bier I would go! Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems 2011-04-14T02:01:01.217Z I never, never thought ye would have pledged him On his cold bier. Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts 2011-04-14T02:00:57.593Z The Heavens are said to have opened, casting a ray of light on the bier; and the funeral must have been touching indeed, when they buried him on the right side of the altar. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z The dead monks were carried on biers, to the brink of the great tomb, so that they should participate in the last homage rendered to their fellow-champions. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Happily the moon was shining, and a ray of light fell through a chink upon her bier. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z As soon as the crazy woman had been secured, Luke had run to the vicarage for wine, and had ordered the sexton to bring the bier as the handiest means of conveyance. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the head, And Summer’s green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly head. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The hillside for his pall, To lie in state while angels wait With stars for tapers tall, And the dark rock-pines, like tossing plumes, Over his bier to wave—.” One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z The biers with the dead were carried along; the brothers walking by their sides, bearing lighted tapers, and chanting psalms. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Before leaving the church after the funeral service, friends and relatives pass one by one to the bier, and there each takes a crucifix and makes the sign of the cross. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z And he came and touched the bier, and they that bare him stood still. Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists 2011-03-26T02:00:17.857Z She stood by the bier in flowing robes loaded with crape, a black-bordered handkerchief in her hand, and a tear on each cheek, and--received her visitors. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z They carried along before me, as I went out to walk, a corpse-like white youth on a bier into Tartarus: it was only a statue, but it was the emblem of my future. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z The next bower that he cam till, There was right dowie cheer; Her father and her seven brethren Were making to Annie a bier. The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship 2011-03-20T02:00:33.903Z In the choir, under a canopy, upon a raised bier surrounded by a treble row of tall tapers, lay the body of Christ, for which the whole service was a funeral celebration. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z There were palms and flowers around it, and about the bier were many tall white candles. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z The bier was covered with them; it was a complete Roman Infiorata, The windows were darkened with hangings and the dim ruddy light of dozens of wax-tapers filled the room. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z It seemed as if political foes would be willing to join hands across his bier. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Let the reader revert to the description of the bier prepared for the seeming dead lady in the Gay Gos-hawk. The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship 2011-03-20T02:00:33.903Z Then in the park were "the descendants of the stags which were harnessed to the king's bier, and which, for want of horses, drew him to his grave at Gloucester." Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Little children and poor peasant women of Hesse were among those who laid flowers on her bier and shared in the grief of the sorrowing monarch across the Channel. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z Yea, kingdoms have crumbled, washed away by a tear— A deep sigh sent an army to a premature bier. The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook 2011-03-13T03:00:22.773Z He was buried from the college chapel, the students who loved him laying a wreath of laurel upon the bier, and singing his requiem. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z It represented the corpse of a drowned girl, resting on a bier. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Cecchi died last week, and lay in state all yesterday in his palace, on a high bier, with his face painted and rouged, wearing his robes, and with his scarlet hat on his head. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Harp of the South, awake, and bid them hear The name of Jackson; loud, and clear, and high, Strike notes exultant, o’er the hero’s bier, Who, though he sleeps in dust, can never die. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z Beside her father's bier, surrounded by the dim, flickering candles, he kissed the sweet orphan reverently on the brow, as one kisses the hem of a Madonna's robe; and promised her his loving care. Blanche 2011-02-27T03:00:34.170Z The corpse was laid in the sacred edifice, surrounded by twelve lighted tapers betokening purity of life; and when these were nearly consumed, they were lowered with the bier into the sepulchre. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z He alone flung no garland on the bier of her, whose living brow he had wreathed with the brightest flowers of song. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z The casket with the remains was deposited on a draped bier raised from the middle aisle. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z A nation bends above thy bier, And mourns its friend. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z "No," he murmured at last, as he replaced the lamp and turned back to the side of the bier. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z A path was cleared through the now hushed and silent phalanx, whilst muffled females, beating their bare breasts, passed towards the biers between the open ranks. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Two sentinels, with drawn swords, watched day and night beside the dead, two were stationed at the doors, and two stood on each step leading to the bier. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Since he had heard of her death, he had experienced none but joyful feelings—for she had lived the life of a Saint—till he had come to sit beside her bier. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z When they had finished breakfast, the men made a rough bier of willow branches plaited, on which they gently laid the body. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Both men were moving away from the side of the bier, one on either hand, and, as they came together at its foot, the speaker put a hand upon the shoulder of the detective. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z When Justin returned, ropes were passed round the leafy bier and the body was lowered by concerted effort. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The presence-chamber was hung with black, and the bier was covered with a cloth of gold. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z We carried him on a kind of bier, fixed up from poles. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z Enter from the Mountain Cadmus, with attendants, bearing the body of Pentheus on a bier. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z Come, Months, come away; Put on white, black, and gray; Let your light sisters play; Ye, follow the bier Of the dead cold year, And make her grave green with tear on tear. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z To-day we clothe our thoughts of death with flowers laid upon the bier, and in our cemeteries with amaranth blossoms, evergreen leaves, fragrant recesses, cool grottos, smiling fountains, and white monuments. The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity 2011-01-28T03:00:24.470Z Cold and stiff he lay upon his bier, and cold and gloomy Falkenried now stood at the window of his room. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z London in particular, and the nation in general, laid its wreath of prayer around the bier of Edith Cavell in a great memorial service held in St. Paul's Cathedral on October 29, 1915. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z Philibert's tomb, which stands in the center of the church, between the other two, is a bier, supported by female figures and fluted columns and interwoven decorations, exquisitely chiseled. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z From the break of day Till the vesper-bell rings clear, Of grave he makes merry and hastens to bury His cares in the butt'ry bier! Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z At that moment the door suddenly flew open, and two tall black men entered, carrying on their shoulders a bier, on which lay a coffin. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z The biers appear to have been of more than one kind. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z But now the watchers by the bier In the adjoining room, Were dozing in their chairs. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z This was done by making a rude bier, that was carried by two horses, one preceding the other, and having the corpse suspended between them. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The dead—the honored dead are here— For whom, behind the sable bier, Through many a long-forgotten year, Forgotten crowds have come, With solemn step and falling tear, Bearing their brethren home. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Probably he already saw her beautiful corpse taken from the water and stretched on the bier. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z No priest leads his funeral train; his body comes to its last resting place in the knacker's cart, on a bier made of four rough deals. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z No sooner was the caliph gone, than the emir commanded biers to be brought, and forbade that any one should enter the harem. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Statesmen, and poets, and philosophers, and theologians mingled with the throng of scientific thinkers who crowded close around the venerated bier. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z It was a solemn scene as the roughly-made bier was borne by lantern-light through the dark arcade of the forest, and the sailors looked up wonderingly at the strange aspect of the mouldering old pile. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z As the candle drew near he saw a corpse upon a bier, the corpse of a woman he knew, and she held the candle between her forefingers, and dreadfully grinned at him. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Byrd's casket was resting on the Lincoln Catafalque, a bier that was built for the coffin of Abraham Lincoln. Robert Byrd makes final trip from Senate 2010-07-01T20:56:00Z At evening two fires were kindled on the brink of the lake, and the two lovely bodies, taken from their biers, were carefully deposited upon a bed of dried leaves within the same cabin. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Behind the bier walk the female mourners, composing a numerous group, often more than a dozen; or, if of a wealthy family, they ride. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments A warlock, auld and shrivelled, wi' a white beard, touches wi' his wand the coffin; the lid lifts, and the head o' a king, wi' a leaden crown, rises frae the bier! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 Here the bier is set down, and all kneel and repeat the Lord’s Prayer. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z At Father Damien's direction Brother Joseph returned to the village for a bier and for four lepers who should be strong enough to bear it. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame The Druid bade him feign death, and have word sent to his brother that he was on his bier ready for burial. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race My daughter Rake-up, on this bier, Slain by the murderer, lies here; He bit her neck off yesterday— Revenge her death, my liege, I pray.' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 As he turned away, he observed the girl's dark head pressed against the foot of the bier. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Nevertheless, he laid his hand on the bier, to help carry the corpse, when instantly the whole vanished, and he was alone; but in his hand he found the skull of a dead horse. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z After which there appeared a gang of Spaniards who, with more ceremony, detached their countrymen, and placed them in a bier covered with a kind of white linen. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster "Your true love's body Lies on the bier, His faithful spirit Is with you here." Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Two others follow'd with a bier; Mournful and slowly they drew near, With heartfelt sighs and deepest groan, Their fav'rite sister to bemoan. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 A body veiled in white lay on a low bier in the middle of the close, gloomy little room. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers The funeral came close to the other side of the wall, and as the bier passed him he reached forth his hand and took off the black veil which was over the bier. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The guests, who for so long had surrounded the bier in solemn silence, began to move to and fro, and to look round for refreshments. The Wish A Novel In a corner opposite stood a bier covered with a black pall, thickly coated with dust. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History Sixteen good youths of noble descent bore the funeral bier on their innocent shoulders; they wore red mantles with gold lace glittering on them, and wreaths of silvered roses wound with red silk. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. The next morning he ordered a bier to be prepared. Barbarossa and Other Tales All about the bier were many people carrying long candles of wax, and these also added their lamentation to the voices of those others who lamented. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions Then he bent over the dead body, lifted it up, and laid it across the bed, pushing the fragments of the bier to one side with his foot. The Wish A Novel Leah, without looking at Edwin, approached the bier and seemed utterly petrified with surprise at the incomprehensible mystery of death. The Children of the World The filial and fraternal relations subsist everywhere; widowed mothers mourn over the bier of a son, and rejoicings are witnessed at marriage feasts. The Essential Faith of the Universal Church Deduced from the Sacred Records We did not exchange a word, only I began to weep like a child when he so mutely, and with such a look of despair in his eyes, approached the bier. Barbarossa and Other Tales Then anon as Sir Ewaine still gazed upon that scene, he beheld that a lady followed after the bier, and he saw that her hair was hanging loose and that she was in great disarray. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions Unlike the first, however, this consisted of but four men, or to be exact, of five, since one was being carried on a bier. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance His wife had added two silver candelabras, which burned on either side of the bier and shed a calm light on the beautiful pale face. The Children of the World Without permission they dared neither to wed nor to bury, neither to increase nor to multiply, to lay the bride on the bride-bed nor the corpse upon the bier. The Firebrand Finally, it was removed to a little hut or shed, where the bier was supported on posts under a thatched roof. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Yes, the great heart of the Son of God was moved with compassion, and He came up and touched the bier, and said, Wondrous Love and other Gospel addresses The mourners rising from the ground, and walking in single files round the bier made a respectful salaam towards it, after which the corpse was lowered perpendicularly into the earth, and the grave filled up. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan The white cat had glided in through the open window and wandering around for a time, crouched finally at the foot of the bier with its yellow eyes fixed steadily on the candles. The Children of the World A faint murmur of admiration and awe went up from the gathering as the great brass-bound coffin was borne solemnly through the door and laid upon the open bier. The Gambler A Novel Those which were allotted to people of the lower class just sufficed to cover the bier, and were not railed in. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Then, robed in white and bestrewn with flowers, they were placed on the biers in the marble atriun. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Arrived at the place of interment, which was situated in the valley, the procession halted at a freshly dug grave, and the bier was laid beside it. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan When he opened his eyes to drive away these confused images, he looked straight into the round yellow eyes of the cat that would not leave the bier. The Children of the World Arriving at the grave, the procession stopped, and gathered round the bier, the women and children seating or prostrating themselves on the ground, the men standing in a grave and solemn circle around them. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 It was raised on a bier of framework, at a height of two or three feet above the ground. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The body of Lucius lay upon the bier before an open tomb, hewn out of the wall. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs To the same effect is one of Ray’s proverbs: “The hind had as lief see His wife on her bier, As that Candlemas-day Should be pleasant and clear.” The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes He led us into the midst of the burial-ground, and in the midst of the burial-ground there was a Calvary, and at the foot of the Calvary there was a bier. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance His bier was a train, or Indian sled, in the form of a common snow-shoe, on which the body was laid, without a coffin, and secured by bandages from side to side. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 The body was laid on a bier or platform raised on posts about three feet from the ground. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Breaking through the crowd, they arrived near the scaffold and placed the bier upon the ground. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Just over this, on a bier, lies the portrait figure of the cardinal in his ecclesiastical robes. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction And on the bier we saw you and papa lying quite straight and still, and we thought that you were dead. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance The fact is that I soon beheld the funeral procession of her husband pass beneath my windows, with the man himself upon the bier. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second This bier was movable, for the purpose of being drawn out, and of exposing the body to the rays of the sun. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Chanting a service and carrying the bier of a person still in the flesh! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII At night it is empty as a vacant bier. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Life’s lee is not more shallow, than impure, And vapid; sense and reason show the door, Call for my bier, and point me to the dust. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes From the top of the cerro they discovered the multitude, and among them one borne on the shoulders of men, as if extended on a bier. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. During the short intervening period the body, resting on a bed of fragrant green leaves, was placed on a sort of bier covered with white cloth and decorated with wreaths and garlands of sweet-smelling flowers. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Ah no! for a darker departure is near; The war-drum is muffled, and black is the bier; His death-bell is tolling: O Mercy, dispel Yon sight, that it freezes my spirit to tell! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Before the door of the church lay the body of a child on a bier. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. It may even be that his mind was unoccupied, empty as is a vacant bier, and yet haunted by an overmastering obsession. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel We laid the remains of poor Bernois in a little graveyard outside the Porte St. Denis; Lizette and myself the only mourners that followed the bier! Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience The bier or catafalque is clothed in black broadcloth, embroidered in silver. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 He expired magnificently, the seventh rhapsody of Liszt serving as his bier. Bye-Ways On a bier, with body swathed in burial robes, lay the inanimate clay from which the soul fled after its imprisonment of the allotted threescore and ten years. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter The house in Waverley Place affected him as might an empty bier in a tomb. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel But at last he made it touch the bier, and through the blackness travel up along a lean, rigid arm to the wax face that lay there so still. Man and Maid They let the bier, on which the man was lying, down into the room. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Well, the following speaks for itself:— "Soft on thy tomb shall fond Remembrance shed The warm yet unavailing tear, And purple flowers that deck the honoured dead Shall strew the loved and honoured bier." From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Around the bier were gathered the few of the endless millions left behind, who remembered the departed a brief season and then became absorbed in the great race of life against death. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter They had been crushed, perhaps by falling timber, perhaps by the bier of Jlomec as it hurtled over the side. Quest of the Golden Ape Through rock-hewn arches he saw a burial scene—a corpse on a bier surrounded by mourners; a great pillar cut off half the still, lying figure. Man and Maid "It must be a little child," said an elderly man standing near him; "the bier is so small; those young girls could not carry it otherwise." Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Because they have a gall on a bier between them. The Handbook of Conundrums Then follows the bier, borne on the shoulders of friends, who are relieved by the passers-by, such an act being deemed highly meritorious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The platform bobbed by, was placed on the barge at the foot of Jlomec's bier. Quest of the Golden Ape When the cigarette was smoked out, he thought of him more and more, till it seemed that what lay on the bier was not wax. Man and Maid It was Manna who, at the lower end of the bier, had helped to bear the child to the grave, and thrown three handfuls of earth upon the coffin. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine All night long the Queen’s ladies, with Princess Mary, watched before the bier, until the end of the month, when the catafalque had been erected in the chapel for the formal lying in state. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The body of the divine hero is laid on a bier in the cathedral. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) He did not pause to examine Jlomec's bier, he had seen such funerary devices before. Quest of the Golden Ape Drop upon Fox’s grave the tear, ’Twill trickle to his rival’s bier.” About London A young and beautiful woman lay on a bier decked with garlands of flowers, and attended by torches which quite overpowered my light. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series They lay the youthful lovers on a bier and bear them away to bury them on a high hill. Dorothy's Tour He was with difficulty persuaded to leave the bier, and, prostrated with grief, was half carried from the room. The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin He never saw his father-in-law again until he lay upon his bier. Black Forest Village Stories We stopped a few minutes here while three corpses were brought on biers. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant E'en now, while to his death-couch he is prest, A wail rings round his head so pale and wan, And withered flowers are ready for his bier, That mock the dying with his past career. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 The victim was placed upon a bier and borne with funeral pomp to the place of doom. Roman Women From top to bottom of the granite ran long red lines, which might have been compared to oozings from a funeral bier. Toilers of the Sea Goths, lay this wounded man upon a bier, and follow my slave to the palace. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) Not far had he ridden when he met twenty men-at-arms, who bore on a bier a dead knight. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality His weight was at least two hundred and seventy-five pounds, one half of which could be set down to lager bier. The History and Records of the Elephant Club See on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore! English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Judith returned to the house of mourning, and found the women still weeping round the bier. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 He inquired, what demonios dared to raise such a din, when his venerable sire, Don Pancho, was stretched upon the bier, and masses to be said for his soul as soon as day dawned? Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Six fishermen made a bier of their oars, and laid the coffin upon it. Jan Vedder's Wife Mr. Holzenkamp was a man who was the very ideal of a lager bier saloon keeper. The History and Records of the Elephant Club The moral of this mournful tale To all is plain and clear— That drinking habits bring a man Too often to his bier. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 Only women and children now remained—widows and orphans—who wept bitterly round the old man's bier, but not for the dead. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 The minister had just finished a touching discourse by the bier, when the sovereign's decree in answer to the petition, which the deceased had presented, was put in the hands of Kohlhaas. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors The eunuch returned, followed by two slaves, who bore on a bier a corpse covered with a large pall. A Christian But a Roman His hide was in wrinkles across the back of his neck whenever he held back his head, and every wrinkle seemed ready to burst with lager bier. The History and Records of the Elephant Club And, in addition, there is a bier of bizarre shape painted with much diligence, with a skeleton embracing it, executed with great care and with beautiful invention. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero On one side the enlivening sound of military music was heard, and colours floated on the breeze; on the other, the dismal tones of the funeral song arose, and mourning veils fluttered round the bier. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 Kohlhaas put up the letter, and ordered the coffin to be placed on the bier. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors They bury their dead in airy wooden biers several feet above the ground, together with pots and pans, food, guns and ammunition, their theory being that the deceased has lain down for a long sleep. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) Lager bier and the Bible having come in contact, lager bier is supposed to be incapable of lying. The History and Records of the Elephant Club Here was no light but that of a dim lamp, and on a bier in the centre of the aisle there lay a corpse that was covered with a cloth of silk. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur Too much it was: I withered in the breath; And lay again ten thousand lifeless years; And then my soul shook, woke—and saw three biers Chiselled of solid night majestically. Song-Surf The fellow representing the carnival rose in his bier, distended his broad mouth, and grinned in the superrector's face. Pretty Michal He asked them to set down the bier, saying to her betrothed: "I will dry up the tears you are shedding for this maiden." Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning In brief, Mr. Holzenkamp was composed of two things: first, the effects of lager bier; and second, lager bier. The History and Records of the Elephant Club If they would free them of grief that sears, If they would keep what love endears, If they would lay no more lilies on biers— Let them say! Sea Poems The Eagle stooping from the sky Shall fold his wing and rest him here, And sunwards gaze with glowing eye From Buonaparte’s bier. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 He spoke to the young man on his bier and he responded. Training the Teacher The mass of material possessed by the company is very great, comprising six hundred vehicles of all kinds, three hundred horses, six thousand biers or stretchers, and a vast number of draperies, cushions, torches, etc. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. His height was not more than five feet eight, but the circumference and diameter of the lager bier were enormous. The History and Records of the Elephant Club You are not with me—only fear, As old as earth's first frenzied bier That severed two whose hearts were near, And left one with all Life unclear. Sea Poems It stood before him, the visible semblance of a funeral couch or bier! Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 But in this case they did; and all her scholars, in the same white dresses in which they used to walk with her at their head into the kirk on Sabbaths, followed the bier. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Gone, the sound of rolling death-cart, Hushed, the ringing, tolling belfry, Still, the bier and gloomy shovel, Still, the idle, listless sexton. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. Well, one day we was a playing in front of this 'ere man's lager bier saloon, and he come out and threatened to lick us if we didn't stop. The History and Records of the Elephant Club The coffin itself was laid in a magnificent bier towering high, surmounted by a gilt top piece, hung with silks, and borne by forty-eight bearers. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports “God’s will be done!” was all he said, as he crouched his body, and placed his hand upon the bier; for such it was. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 "He lies dead over there," and he indicated the temporary bier. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The words of the women that had drawn her to them were empty as blanks in a dream; the jeers of the mob vacant as an empty bier. Mary Magdalen Another patient, whose hallucination consisted in believing himself to be dead, had his room hung with black crape, and his bed constructed in the form of a bier. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Already you are in a bier, or else in a stone cell with mouldy walls. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages He was horribly crushed by the ponderous roof and collapsing sides—and the flattened bier was his Iron Shroud. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 And that figure on the bier was the great work of Renaissance sculpture. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II The momentary exertion, the bier, the sepulchre, the sight of the Christ in his cerements, the brooding quiet—these things had roused her. Mary Magdalen They throw a pall of ancestral honour over the bier of the hereditary monarch, which would have been unbecoming in the case of the upstart king of Thebes. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The foolish king, not yet grown quite an idiot, compelled his royal forefathers to share in the ball, by making their dry bones dance in their biers. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Not, He commanded the bier to be set down. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary But when they planned with lisp and leer Their careful war upon the weak, They smote your body on its bier, For surety that you could not speak. Poems —There a multitude came, Of folk not a little, and, lifted among them, There was borne on a bier by brave-hearted men Nigh to the spot —it was the ninth hour— 875 A lifeless youth. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose They glanced at one another meaningly, and a sudden irritation was perceptible in the coroner's manner as he sat in a rickety chair near the improvised bier. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories It seems as if they had reckoned on flattening the soul, on pressing and squeezing it down to the compass of a bier. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Arrived at the Capitol, the whole multitude passed the bier, and gazed upon the hero’s face, seen through a glass in the coffin. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital My father is lying there on his bier. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature It was dead as before The body fast to the bier: about the chill limbs Was grievous doom. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose For those without could perceive that once more they were crowding about the bier and talking together in knots. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—So let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV None of the members of the government were present; but the ladies threw flowers and evergreens upon his bier. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital A darker departure is near, The death-drum is muffled, and sable the bier.” Peggy Owen and Liberty Setting her body before him on his palfrey, he soon came to the little shrine, and making a bier of the altar laid Guillardun upon it. Legends & Romances of Brittany And when one morning the sun arose, And they bore her bier down the garden-close, It touched her, saying, "At last, repose." Weeds by the Wall Verses However, we had four men of very different heights take the poles of a sort of bier and carry her shoulder high down the road, till we met a trap. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) A bier, empty, spread with a winding-sheet, an old man arranging it at the head. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion So Julian follow'd from afar her bier, With many a sigh, with many a bitter tear. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems The bier and its bearers, and its protectors, have reached the cave in safety, and pace down the gallery, preceded by its Christian hosts, with lighted tapers, singing psalms. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century The other men who had watched with Sol around Isom’s bier had gone off to dig a grave for the dead, after the neighborly custom there. The Bondboy They met therefore first again at Sten's bier, at the side of which they both kneeled. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study Soon, soon will the year shed its bloom on her bier, and the dust of its dreams on our grief. Collected Poems Volume One Rather a bier for a bed, the grave for a home. Shirley One is in front; the rest behind with a sort of bier or litter. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century When they were carrying the young man out of Nain He had compassion on the widowed mother and came and touched the bier and said, “Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.” The Way to God and How to Find It When my bier is borne to the grave And its burden is laid in the ground Think not that Rumi is there, Nor cry, like the mourners around, He is gone,—all is over—farewell! Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order Soon, soon will the year shed its bloom on her bier, and the dust of its dreams on our grief. Collected Poems Volume One Mitford quotes Pope, Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady, 49: "No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd." Select Poems of Thomas Gray I am childless and barren; pity And let me catch the soul Of him who here on the kindled bier Pays to Existence toll. Many Gods In the centre you see the body of Alcestis, which has been brought out of doors, and laid on a bier under the shadow of some ancient trees. Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children Every hostile voice was hushed, and the whole nation bent tearfully over the bier, where a once mighty heart and fervent brain lay cold and still in death. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Soon, soon will the year shed its bloom on her bier, and the dust of its dreams on our grief. Collected Poems Volume One If it is, then on that August night the wife of Charles Blount was watching over his bier. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." If they would free them from grief that sears, If they would keep all that love endears, If they would lay no more lilies on biers— Let them say! Nirvana Days Beside the bier are the offerings of food and drink which the Greeks used to burn along with their dead on the funeral pyre. Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children Then come some boys singin’ a funeral him; and then the bier, borne by friends of the corpse and covered by a handsome shawl. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Soon, soon will the year Shed its bloom on her bier And the dust of its dreams on our grief. Collected Poems Volume One They are there above the bier of a young bride carried past our window to her grave. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It I followed them, under the phantom sphere Of the pale moon, along the Avon's near And nimbused flowing, followed to his bier— Who had evoked them first with mighty eye. Nirvana Days Several men and women are gathered round the bier, mostly in a group near the head of Alcestis. Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children These thoughts come into my mind onbid as I looked on the heavy pall of dark clouds that hung low over our heads some like the dark drapery hangin’ over a bier. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Three or four men placed several of the small tables together, forming them into a sort of bier. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country Moslem men are usually willing to dig that in their own burying ground, and the body is carried to its last resting place on the public "ma'ash," or bier. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It Toll no bell and say no prayer, Let no rose die on my bier. Nirvana Days They mounted wearily, and taking a last look at the figure of the man lying there on his rocky bier, picked their way down to the sloping hillside. The Shepherd of the North All the British pilots, and five hundred of their men marched, and the bier was followed by a battalion of French troops. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Immelmann lay in the courtyard of a hospital, on a wonderful bier. An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916 |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。