Jefferson's funeral by his own request was a simple and quiet affair.

Death too is a simple affair without any ostentatious funeral ceremonies and the corpse of the deceased is promptly buried.

Her will specified a simple funeral.

He enjoyed word painting in the style of the madrigal, yet he could write the simple Ecce quomodo moritur justus later used by George Frideric Handel in his funeral anthem The Ways of Zion Do Mourn.

At his funeral the coffin was carried to the grave by former students who had received the bursaries for which he had worked so hard, it was they who subscribed for the monument over his grave, severely simple as he would have desired.

The weak parts of this story have been identified as: the sudden and unexplained departure of the Simons ; the subsequent cruel treatment of the child-keeping him in a dark room practically out of sight ( unless any doubt of his identity was possible ), while his sister was in comparative comfort ; the cause of death, declared to be of long standing, but in fact developed rapidly, and the fact that the disease is usually not fatal and is self-limiting ; the insufficient excuse provided for the child's muteness under Gomin's regime ( he had answered Barras ) and the irregularities in the formalities in attending the death and the funeral, when a simple identification of the body by Marie Thérèse would have prevented any doubt of his death.

He was buried in a simple funeral alongside his wife Paula at Midreshet Ben-Gurion.

A local carpenter created a simple coffin, and ashes from the funeral pyres were placed inside.

Although Greeley had requested a simple funeral, his daughters ignored his wishes and arranged a grand affair.

These people view a ground burial as an unneeded complication of their funeral process, and thus choose cremation to make their services as simple as possible.

# ( Solemnly and measured, without dragging ), ( very simple, like a folk-tune ), and ( something stronger, as at the start )— a funeral march based on the children's song " Frère Jacques " ( or "")

Aid to the poor is favored over pagoda-building or expensive rituals ; religious and social ceremonies are ideally simple and modest, and are not to include the food offerings, divination services, and elaborate wedding and funeral customs found in some manifestations of Southeast Asian life.

Parkes had left directions that his funeral should be as simple as possible, but though a state funeral was declined, a very large number of people attended when he was placed by the side of his first wife at Faulconbridge, in the grounds of his former home in the Blue Mountains.

General Montgomery's body was recovered by the British on New Years Day 1776 and was given a simple military funeral on January 4, paid for by Lieutenant Governor Cramahé.

She is buried at Blithedale and given a simple funeral, at which Westervelt makes a last cryptic appearance and declares her suicide foolish.

A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau but the family declined because Laskin " liked things very simple.

Since the grave lacks any rich funeral offerings or any sign of opulence, the archaeologists conclude the grave is that of a simple ordinary peasant.

Although entitled to a Special Full Honor Funeral, at the request of his widow Mary Eleanor Smith, a simple joint service funeral was held, patterned after the one given to Marshall in 1959.

Other types were funerary badges, presumably presented to mourners for the funeral of important figures, and simple decorative badges with animals or hearts.

In his will he gave instructions for a very simple funeral, in a simple board coffin, with the money intended for a funeral distributed instead to the poor and monasteries.

It was really quite simple.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

His answer was simple but honest.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

Their world, again, was a still simple, traditional age which was only slowly beginning to appreciate the complexity of life.

Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.

If he foresaw any problem because of the quality of the hymen, it was recommended that simple procedures be undertaken at once to incise the hymen or, preferably, to dilate it.

There was, of course, no hope it really would be that simple.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

It was a simple ivory crucifix which my mother had given me.

The simple, clever production was also able to tread the thin line between those extremes.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

But I didn't really think it was as simple as that, nor did anyone else.

Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper.