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.

Aediculae exist today in Roman cemeteries as a part of funeral architecture.

His close friend, President Ronald Reagan, gave the eulogy at the funeral, which was held at Manhattan's St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church.

Despite persistent rumors, encouraged by some Islamic publications and websites, Cousteau did not convert to Islam, and when he died he was buried in a Roman Catholic Christian funeral.

This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.

There were calls for Cyril's canonization by the crowds lining the Roman streets during his funeral procession.

The masks, probably modeled of wax from the face of the deceased, were part of the funeral procession when an elite Roman died.

** The Roman Catholic Church accepts cremation as a funeral practice.

Valentino's funeral Mass in New York was held at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, often called " The Actor's Chapel ", as it is located on West 49th Street in the Broadway theater district, and has a long association with show business figures.

* The Roman playwright Terence's play Adelphoe ( The Brothers ) is first performed at the funeral of the Roman general, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus.

Roman artefacts have been found dating to the 2nd century BC such as a funeral decoration representing the head of Medusa now in the archaeological museum of Barcelona.

She was also honoured in the May lustration of fields at the Ambarvalia festival, at harvest-time, and during Roman marriages and funeral rites.

The passage detailing the funeral rites gives a valuable insight into Roman burial customs and the importance the Romans placed on respect for the dead.

He received Roman Catholic funeral rites four days later, with fellow entertainers including Desi Arnaz, Ernest Borgnine, Marty Allen, and Jack Carter in attendance, and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York refused to grant Castellano a Catholic funeral, citing his notorious life and death.

In the liturgical reforms of the mid-20th century in the Roman Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council, there was a significant shift in the funeral rites used by the Church.

This was because at the time of the funeral, the Holy See forbade its members from entering churches that were not Roman Catholic.

When Littré was near death, he converted, was baptised by the abbé and his funeral was conducted with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the early stages of the First Punic War ( 264 BC ) the first known Roman gladiatorial munus was held, described as a funeral blood-rite to the manes of a Roman military aristocrat.

Discovered in 1777, this marble herm is a Roman copy of a 5th-century BC original and may represent Aspasia's funeral | funerary stele.

The Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi is a musical setting of the Roman Catholic funeral mass ( Requiem ) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra.

The libation was part of Roman funeral rites, and may have been the only sacrificial offering at humble funerals.

During the Roman era there is little evidence of a settlement except for some gallo-roman Ustrinum or funeral pyres and the Latin root ( stagnum meaning a pool or sump ) of the name Stans.

At his funeral, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Farrelly, was heard to say, " May my soul be with Beddell's ".