A group of humble mournersentered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young.
Thus directed, the bearers trotted on under their light burden; and the two mourners kept as near them, as they could.
At length the mournersreached the churchyard and gathered around the grave.
At that moment Father Heilman began to pray, and all the mourners knelt around the grave, in which the coffin bearing the shield and helmet of the knight had now been placed.
On the day that had been fixed the mourners walked slowly toward the churchyard, Father Heilman in front carrying a crucifix.
Surely, one thinks, this must be a place of private sepulture for the Royal Family or for their servants, and the stair giving access from the chapel was built for the convenience of mourners who wished to stand beside their dead.
And she didn't think it wuz proper to go into society in mournin' clothes--she thought it would make talk for mourners to git out and enjoy themselves any in crape.
The tears jest run down most everybody's face, and when themourners wuz addressed, why, big, hefty men all round me jest boohooed right out.
Just when the mourners had grown noisily hilarious, testifying thereby to the respectability with which things were being conducted to the very end, Mrs. Peckover became aware of a knocking at the front-door.
And before the mourners left the churchyard she would be condemned and lost.
The service was over, and the mourners had assembled outside the porch, where the coffin was standing.
The mourners had gone into church after the funeral, and the coffin was left in the open grave; but as soon as the service was over they would come back, and help the grave-digger to fill in the grave.
The Reverend Henry Peyton had arrived and the mourners moved into the spacious library, grateful for a destination.
The stage was too small and the mourners were too near something.
The mourners drifted around and nodded nervously at each other as if they were doing all they could to make the best of a faux pas.
And for the moment their tears earned for themselves the regard of their fellow mourners as kind-hearted, sensitive, unselfish souls.
The mourners were following the six silk-hatted pall bearers into the street.
The death of poor Gilchrist seemed to Basine, for a few minutes, chiefly important as an opportunity by which lesser mourners were introducing themselves to the attention of greater mourners.
This panelled white marble wall is, however, defaced by the black wreaths, beadwork, and artificial flowers which the misguided mourners hang over the remains of their departed.
This was interrupted, however, when the real mourners averted their eyes; though at no time was there any deviation in the length of their faces.
On the contrary, they extract the teeth from the departed, distributing them among the mourners for memorial legacies; as elsewhere, silver spoons are bestowed.
Some mourners load the air with lamentations; but the loudest notes are struck from hollows.
Almost without exception those who followed it were his direct descendants, and the same stones surrounded them as had sheltered the mourners at his funeral.
The sky was of the purest blue, and larks trilled unseen in its translucent vapours, as if to draw the thoughts of the mourners away from the earth in which they were presently to see these mortal remains laid.
The saddest mourners the world ever saw were some of our Southern girls whose hearts and hopes were buried in a soldier's grave in Virginia or the Far West.
Downstairs, the funeral party had broken up--many of the mourners had gone, and others were going.
I seem to hear the mourners go, With long black garments trailing slow, 30 And plumes anodding to and fro, As once I heard them, Rosaline!
As the mourners gathered around the opening, the sound of what seemed distant thunder called my attention to the windows.
The barrier with iron spikes, which protected the mourners from the jostling of the crowd, was then removed, and there was a rush to get a sight of the coffin.
Slaves grind the grain, cellarers coat their amphoræ with pitch, bakers knead their dough, mourners make lamentation and tear their hair.
Boudier, represents a man bewailing the dead, in the attitude adopted at funerals by professional mourners of both sexes; the right fist resting on the ground, while the left hand scatters on the hair the dust which he has just gathered up.
He found himself repeating the old, commonplace words wrung from the despair of mourners since grief was young in the story of the world:-- "It is all over.
But whatever Compliments may be made on these Occasions, the true Mourners are the Mercers, Silkmen, Lacemen and Milliners.
The well-known passage had been read from Job, the prayers had been rehearsed, the grave was filled, the mourners straggled homeward.
Some of the mourners hastening to their liquor turned at the Cross and looked up the road to see if they were following, and they were struck vaguely by the significance of the thing.
Another peculiar observance is seen where the mourners extend their hands toward the tomb, with a motion which seems to indicate that they talk to the dead.
Yet it might be a hasty inference to conclude that the dress of the mourners was absolutely and unqualifiedly black.
The old officer also took off his hat, and stood reverently enough till the last of the mourners had passed by.
The best relief that mourners have; It makes our sorrows blest; Our fairest hope beyond the grave, And our eternal rest.
To tents of woe, to beds of pain, Our cheerful feet repair, And with the gifts thy hand bestows, Relieve the mourners there.
Here let the blind their sight obtain; Here give the mourners rest; Let Jesus here triumphant reign, Enthroned in every breast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mourners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
