In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.

For so long as death was not violent, it was natural and to be welcomed, making a funeral a feast.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.

A funeral parlor chain was indicted for price-cutting.

Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings ' daughter Judith.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

She was also one of two horses driven by Menelaus at the funeral games of Patroclus.

At his mother's funeral, Nero was witless, speechless and rather scared.

In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.

His funeral was held in Rome in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.

Holly's funeral was held on February 7, 1959, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

After a requiem mass in Stuttgart's St. Eberhard church, his funeral procession was followed by protesters ( mainly students ) who wanted his entire legacy remembered-even after his death-especially his former membership in the Nazi Party.

His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d ' état on October 21, 1969 ( the day after his funeral ), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering armed opposition — essentially a bloodless takeover.

During the power vacuum that followed the assassination of Somalia's second president, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, the military staged a coup d ' état on 21 October 1969 ( the day after Shermarke's funeral ) and took over office.

Princess Jahanara planned a state funeral which was to include a procession with Shah Jahan's body carried by eminent nobles followed by the notable citizens of Agra and officials scattering coins for the poor and needy.

On 19 February, a funeral service was held at his home, followed by a military procession.

From William Henry Harrison to Gerald Ford, the funeral corteges of seven of the eight presidents who died in office and two former presidents followed this route.

Lyndon B. Johnson and Ford were the former presidents whose funeral cortege followed this route.

Two officers led the funeral parade, carrying a large portrait of him followed by numerous red floral wreaths.

After the funeral, an estimated 300 onlookers followed the procession, which passed Gotti's Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, to the gravesite.

The reanimation of the Akh was only possible if the proper funeral rites were executed and followed by constant offerings.

He was honored with a public funeral, and " the whole population of Athens, honouring him greatly, followed him to the grave.

If his funeral followed the pattern of past funerals, his body would have been incinerated on a pyre at the Campus Martius, while his spirit would rise to the gods ' home in the heavens.

A funeral service was held in Trinity College on 13 June 2012 followed by a private cremation.

The entire Austro-Hungarian Empire was in deep mourning ; 82 sovereigns and high-ranking nobles followed her funeral cortege on the morning of 17 September to the tomb in the Church of the Capuchins.

His death at the Great Lakes, Illinois, Naval Training Center Hospital, September 20, 1951, was followed by a funeral, with military honors, at Sylvania, Ohio.

After she died of cancer of the throat at age 52 at Carlton House, her funeral procession attracted troublemakers who followed the coffin to the grave shouting insults.

Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion, and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander, this might have followed in spirit Achilles ' killing of "... twelve high-born youths ..." beside Patroclus ' funeral pyre.

Snow followed this advice and since then every interval between the death of the President of the Church and the ordination of a new President has been less than two weeks, just long enough to mourn the death of the President of the Church and complete his funeral services, and also for the Quorum of the Twelve to nominate and sustain the President of the Twelve and for the new president to choose his counselors in the First Presidency.

A state funeral, attended by thousands, took place on 4 September 1974, followed by interment in his hometown, Waimate.

A state funeral followed on 16 June 2009 in Libreville which was attended by nearly two dozen African heads of state, including several of the continent's strongmen who themselves have ruled for decades, and by Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac — the current and former French presidents ( and the only Western heads of state to attend ).

Rather, the movement's core was the tragic music which followed the invasion section, which the composer described as " a funeral march or, rather, a requiem.

According to Chosun Ilbo, the dog accompanied his dead owner for three days until other people came to find the body, followed the owner to his funeral, and came back home, not eating anything for four days.

The funeral of Palach turned into a major protest against the occupation, and a month later ( on 25 February 1969 ) another student, Jan Zajíc, burned himself to death in the same place, followed in April of the same year by Evžen Plocek in Jihlava.

His funeral procession was followed by thousands as he was laid to rest in Butte's Mountain View Cemetery.