mourning

How To Use mourning In A Sentence

• Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
• He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
• A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
• (O father of a felt calotte!) 75 In times of mourning Moslem women do not use perfumes or dyes, like the Henna here alluded to in the pink legs and feet of the dove. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• And, as is customary, the families would erect a mourning tent.
• It may be that in the faint candle light the improvised cook of the party ebonizes the flapjacks and puts mourning edges on the bacon.
• One mourner said her journey through the stages of mourning was like being in a cocoon.
• Sometimes, I really wonder if the powers that be at TPM are going to color the pages black, and call for three days of mourning when Hillary is finally refected. Obama Adviser Recommends Keeping 60,000-80,000 Troops In Iraq Through 2010
• This black varnish was applied presumably as an element of mourning, or, as Edwards suggested, either to match japanned furniture in the room or in reaction to the blackening of the silvering by tarnishing.
• Hymen blew his torch out, put it into the cupboard for use on a future day, and exchanged his garish saffron-coloured robe for decent temporary mourning. The Newcomes