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Example sentences for "deep mourning"

  • At this same time Hernando Pizarro, with his suite, consisting of above forty persons, all in deep mourning, likewise arrived in Madrid, where the court was then staying.

  • On the following day, he and the boy Tim went out on foot, in deep mourning, and remained away for several hours; and in the evening they set out for London.

  • They could not find out even whether he had lost his wife or not; though such was the landlady's opinion, for he was dressed in deep mourning.

  • Certainly if one is in deep mourning, and genuinely sorrowing, a border of this width is permissible.

  • This may be shortened at discretion to six months of deep mourning followed by six months of semi-mourning or three months of deep mourning and six of half mourning.

  • We were expected--two or three footmen in deep mourning were at the door and took us at once to the drawing-room.

  • Of course I am in deep mourning, and I didn't know if I could meet Royalties in black.

  • They told us they saw a lady in deep mourning, with perfectly white hair, standing behind the Queen, who looked so earnestly at the French uniforms, and was agitated when they passed; they only realised afterward that it was the Empress.

  • In deep mourning, woollen cloths only are worn; in ordinary mourning, silk and woollen; in half mourning, gray and violet.

  • The health of a delicate child has been known to be seriously affected by the constant spectacle of his mother in deep mourning.

  • The gentleman who had driven it alighted and handed out a lady and a little girl in deep mourning.

  • He turned, and saw at his side the little orphan girl in deep mourning.

  • The lady was clothed in deep mourning, with a thick crape veil concealing her face.

  • But I cannot wear it since I am in deep mourning!

  • Placed somewhat apart was Lady Barfleur, but being in deep mourning, she would not mingle with the group.

  • They were attired in deep mourning; and, though there was no personal resemblance between them, they looked like sisters.

  • To the regular frequenters of the Ring, crowded as it was, it was not difficult to decide that the two lovely girls, dressed in deep mourning, were strangers.

  • The other lady turned round, and I beheld my Emily, my dear, dear Emily she too was in deep mourning.

  • I opened the door, when I saw my sister sitting at a table in deep mourning, with another young lady whose back was turned towards me.

  • He was dressed in deep mourning, and looked in his manner and air very much the gentleman.

  • He was dressed in deep mourning, and looked pale and worn, his black beard and moustache deepening the haggard expression of features, to which the red borders of his eyelids, and his bloodless lips, gave an air of the deepest suffering.

  • She was very simply dressed, in deep mourning; but there was something about her attitude and countenance which I plainly indicated that she belonged to the higher classes of society.

  • I looked up, and saw a tall woman in deep mourning, and with a veil over her face, take her place in a pew which was nearly opposite to me.

  • Is this lady whom you are speaking of in deep mourning?

  • And now on the sofa in that parlour sate Eliza Sydney herself,—dressed in deep mourning.

  • Filippo hurried rapidly away the moment he saw his late master removed in the manner described; but Gibbet, who, we should observe, was clad in deep mourning, walked by the side of the procession.

  • There was no male domestic in attendance upon the carriage: the postillion accordingly alighted from his horse, opened the door, and assisted two females, both clad in deep mourning, to descend.

  • The Carnival gaieties were suspended, and the city was thrown into deep mourning.

  • On Holy Thursday the whole town turned out in deep mourning to visit the Sepulchre in the Churches.

  • The other lady turned round, and I beheld my Emily, my dear, dear Emily: she too was in deep mourning.

  • The principal person of the group was habited in deep mourning, which, in the fashion of that day, was, perhaps, the most unbecoming dress that the vanity of man ever permitted.

  • He again was succeeded by another, in whom St. Real instantly recognised the Duke d'Epernon, though he had changed his garb within the last hour, and now appeared in deep mourning.

  • Standing near one of the windows at the farther end, and apparently gazing forth with some attention, appeared the figure of a lady in deep mourning.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deep mourning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attitude towards; deep brown; deep dish; deep distress; deep down; deep forest; deep green; deep hole; deep impression; deep meditation; deep mourning; deep pool; deep sense; deep shadow; deep water; deep well; deep wound; deep yellow; deeply moved; deeply rooted; eighth century; glacial origin; idee fixe; not mentioned; sending back; what has