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
The Armenian authorities declared May 29 a national day of mourning.
A mourning cloak butterfly flew up from a tree trunk in the sunshine where it was basking.
The world has been mourning a courageous and unusual man. Times, Sunday Times
But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
A "dirge" is a funeral or mourning song, so perhaps this is meant literally ... or, perhaps, this is a reference to some of the new American Pie - Program Notes
Pictorially, for Louis de Roncherolles there is no escape; he is trapped for perpetuity within a closed circle of mourning and death.
Their memories of the past will necessarily be plural as well as conflicting, bringing with them both joy and sorrow, both rejoicing and mourning, both happiness as well as despondency.
The vision of her mourning robes and melancholy beauty so deeply impressed Capitola that, almost for the first time in her life, she hesitated from a feeling of diffidence, and said gently: The Hidden Hand
Another from Tanagra in Boiotia shows a person raising a kylix or goblet while another individual raises both hands in an apparent gesture of mourning.
Whether mourning the miseries of war, praying for divine help or preparing herself for death, it seemed as if her life as a writer was at its end.
Queen Victoria's black mourning gown fetched £3,000 yesterday at an auction of the largest private collection of period costumes in Britain.
The Shtibl Minyan (of which she was a very a very active member when she lived in L.A.) has set up a form so that all six orders of the Mishnah will be learned during her shloshim (the initial 30-day mourning period.) Baruch Dayan HaEmet - Danya Ruttenberg
What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! Vanity Fair
The annual St George's Day parade was her first weekend of public engagements since the end of the official period of mourning following the death of the Queen Mother and the memorial service for Princess Margaret.
Traditional models define successful mourning in terms of detachment from the loved one who has died; the ability to cut the strings of grief, and to step into the roles of mothers and fathers vacated by the dead. 2009 March 10 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Thou art in mourning now, as well as I: but if ever thy ridiculous turn lead thee again to be beau-brocade, I will bedizen thee, as the girls say, on my return, to my own fancy, and according to thy own natural appearance — Thou shalt doctor my soul, and I will doctor thy body: thou shalt see what a clever fellow I will make of thee. Clarissa Harlowe
Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning. Clarissa Harlowe
After the burial, for which there were minute prescriptions, the son had to wear the mourning sackcloth for twenty-seven months, emaciating his body with scanty food, and living in a rude hut erected for the purpose near the grave. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Each service includes short scripture readings, petitions regarding mourning, suggestions for reflection, and room for journaling.
This year it also finds the country in the leaden grip of a seemingly endless process of mourning.
The saimiri, or titi of the Orinoco, the atele, the sajou, and other quadrumanous animals long known in Europe, form a striking contrast, both in their gait and habits, with the macavahu, called by the missionaries viudita, or widow in mourning. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
The officer - now but a poor, sorry soul mourning for Christmas - could scarcely contain his unhappiness.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared seven days of official national mourning for the death of Pope John Paul II.
Before yet a song of joy or of mourning had gone forth from the valleys of Norway -- before yet a smoke-wreath had ascended from its huts -- before an axe had felled a tree of its woods -- before yet king Nor burst forth from Jotunhem to seek his lost sister, and passing through the land gave to it his name; nay, before _yet_ there was a Norwegian, stood the high Strife and Peace
From the narrow streets of Stone Town to the barazas of N'gambo and throughout the villages this was the only topic of conversation as the island rapidly acquired the atmosphere of mourning.
I wavered at seeing him so angry, but thought of all the nights he must have lain in his room weeping, mourning his dead brother the same way I mourned my mom.
The color black is traditionally associated with mourning.
Mourning the lack of opportunities which have thus far presented themselves, the funereal hue seems appropriate in the current Scottish footballing climate.
You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist.
Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning continues this tense push-pull struggle with biography throughout its pages.
Look no further than the heartbreaking lyrics and painfully sad mourning orchestral refrains of ‘I Left You’.
His authority and wisdom being immediately established by such adjectives as "discerning" (discretus) and "lettered" (literatus), John claims that he has heard such accusations before, legitimizing a process already underway. 103 It is this combination of intellect and emotion, of learned law expert and mourning mother, of two responses gendered male and female, that, Matthew hints, led to the king's belief in the accusation and to the execution of nineteen Jews. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Deep mourning, for example, for a widow might be two years, followed by a period of half-mourning. Archive 2008-06-01
This year I finally pilgrimaged to an important place of mourning in India. Amritsar Massacre, Memory, misguided religious Nationalism, and recent Homicides in India
In his book she should be sitting at home behind closed curtains, in half-mourning and bewailing her lot. A WORM OF DOUBT
Women wore wrap-arounds imprinted with Kabila's image, and practically every car was bedecked with leaves as a sign of mourning.
As the day advanced, emblems of mourning drooped from the highest windows to the sidewalk. Memorial Sermons
But in Germany the nation is still mourning. Times, Sunday Times
In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed.
Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet. Finnegans Wake
Thus, she argues, Plath's poems enact a theatrical performance rather than a sincere expression of mourning.
By many a discarded camp you would see a discarded pa-ta, a widow's kopi mourning cap, lying there in pieces.
The variety melanite was once used in mourning jewelry, but does not have any gem use nowadays.
Lady Florimel wept incessantly for three days; on the fourth she looked out on the sea and thought it very dreary; on the fifth she found a certain gratification in hearing herself called the marchioness; on the sixth she tried on her mourning, and was pleased; on the seventh she went with the funeral and wept again; on the eighth came Lady Bellair, who on the ninth carried her away. Malcolm
Empire went in to King Badr Basim and said to him, “O King, there is no harm in mourning for the late sovran: but over - mourning beseemeth none save women; wherefore occupy thou not thy heart and our hearts with mourning for thy sire; inasmuch as he hath left thee behind him, and whoso leaveth the like of thee is not dead.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
For those already mourning the imminent void in jump racing's rich tapestry, there is heartening news. Times, Sunday Times
We sense this as he remonstrates at one point by cellular phone with his parents in Tehran about a funeral at which he should be present, yet which he will have to miss, on account of his work, except for the seventh day of mourning.
Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.
It is romantic and sentimental thinking to propose a return to wearing mourning attire for the sake of resuming a stronger communal bond. Christianity Today
I am still in mourning. The Sun
These include habitats where vermin, reptiles or insects gather and, according to Al Biruni, deserted places, prisons and places of grief and mourning.
But, unluckily for Beorminster, he was dead and his relict was a mourning widow, who constantly referred to her victim as a perfect husband. The Bishop's Secret
The legislation, pushed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is aimed at generating funding for programs targeting game birds such as mourning doves and quail.
After mourning his mother's death, Frankenstein goes up to the University of Ingolstadt without his friend Clerval. Plot Summary
John deBrun had been muttering about Joginstead and a bath under his breath, while every once in a while Oaxyctl caught the long-off look of mourning in the man's eyes. Crystal Rain
He no longer wore gay embroidered hacqueton; his tunic was black velvet, and all the rest of his garments accorded with the same mourning hue. The Scottish Chiefs
They killed a daughter who was mourning her father at his funeral. Times, Sunday Times
So it's like a celebration of life more than the mourning of somebody's death.
On a day of mourning on both sides of the Atlantic, church bells tolled as millions attended special services to mark a sickening atrocity that has brought the world to the brink of war.
Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry. A Bit of Punctuation
As a result, modern elegies more often than not break with the decorum of earlier modes of mourning and become melancholic, self-centered, or mocking.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. The Bible, King James version, Book 30: Amos
Benedict, who had arrived yesterday, was looking extremely handsome in full mourning, even to a black cravat.
It began to fill with peasants and nobles, mourning for those who had fallen in battle all that way from home.
SEVEN DAYS MOURNING FOR SUHARTO: GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD LIKE THIS SORT OF ENDINGBy Kevin A. Stoda The longtime leader of Indonesia, Suharto, is dead, but aside from the funeral on a few TV stations and aside from a handful of flags at half mast around Bali, life goes on in this tropical paradise. SEVEN DAYS MOURNING FOR SUHARTO: GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD LIKE THIS SORT OF ENDING
The answer, again, comes in the theory of masochistic self-reproach sparked by the perpetual process of mourning an irreconcilable loss.
But Wade then found Jones for the long trey from the right wing and Alonzo Mourning, in foul trouble all night, came across the lane to swat away Larry Hughes 'final attempt to tie the game with eight seconds to go. USATODAY.com - Wade, Heat bump Wizards for second-round sweep
Levy's mourning involves a considered ironizing of the conditions both of sympathy and rationality.
Instead it seems to concern a young man in mourning who lives in the town of Solebury, Pennsylvania.
The old idea of the feast is having a comeback as more people recognize the value of such events for family and social cohesion, and as under-standing develops of the dangers of incomplete mourning.
The painting's background was entirely black – the colour of mourning, the colour of night, the void between being and nonbeing. The Mirror of Venus
Like Theo, I participate in the mourning of the American repertory circuit from somewhat of a remove.
A long mourning period, perhaps six months or more, will a pause in the political dogfight.
But such is the desire for speed and collaborative conversation that few are likely to devote much time to mourning its passing. Times, Sunday Times
As the Orthodox 40-day period of mourning to mark the death of more than 350 people in the siege came to an end, she found herself blamed by many locals for the tragedy.
Even bloggers in neighbouring Singapore have been mourning this loss. Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Remembering film director Yasmin Ahmad
Many are mourning the death of a warm, intelligent and compassionate young woman.
Those that are most merry and jovial are commonly, when they come to be in distress, most overwhelmed with heaviness and sorrow; their laughter is then turned into mourning. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
For one who is observing an unconventional shloshim, or 30-day mourning period, for Dick Williams - the Hall of Fame manager who died July 7 at the age of 82 - a vivid childhood memory has suddenly come to life. NYT > Home Page
In India the national flag flew at half mast and all official entertainment was cancelled as the country entered the second day of three days' official state mourning and special masses were held in churches.
A picture of Christ in the mourning widow's chamber; a "mater dolorosa," in the distracted mother's home; a "kerchief" of the Holy Virgin, spotlessly white, like the glorious spirit, above the bed of olden times, are surely elevating, and honorable presences, the recollections which lead us to them are holy and imperishable, as is the devotion which bows the knee before them. Debts of Honor
Tommy is surly and incommunicative; his only meaningful conversations are with Jordan's mourning girlfriend.
Cracked corn is a favorite of mourning doves, grackles and juncos.
Iran has Rafsanjani, Khatami, Mousavi and Karoubi, who brought down the Shah with lengthy, building broadbased mourning demonstrations that fed off the continued martyring of their demonstrators. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Friday June 19)
It is said that Abraham Lincoln in a dream saw people mourning around his body, a few days before he was shot dead.
Still, he's mired in disillusionment and mourning. 'A Single Man' is singularly superb, thanks to Firth, visuals
They killed a daughter who was mourning her father at his funeral. Times, Sunday Times
The brusque reply is still remembered of Lawson Tait, the great English ovariotomist, to a distinguished German colleague, who had inquired the secret of his then marvelously low death-rate: after a glance at the bands of mourning on the ends of the other's fingers, he said, "I keep my fingernails clean, sir! Preventable Diseases
Women don't want a block of colour, especially not black after all this mourning.
Showing mercy to others, like being poor, or mourning, or being meek, or like hunger and thirst, is a quality of soul that necessitates death, self-denial, perhaps even significant personal loss. Eric Simpson: Those Who Are Merciful Will Obtain Mercy
The only son of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Prince Albert, becomes Monaco's de facto ruler until a formal investiture expected after a mourning period.
The ninth of Ab is a day of fasting and mourning, in commemoration of the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. The Promised Land
Cracked corn is a favorite of mourning doves, grackles and juncos.
And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death.
This willed nearness to conscious and unconscious life of her fiction — such that her first literary foray is a story about making a new life and her subsequent fictions sustain a bare minimum of grief-stricken life — can be construed as a phantasy that sustains her work of un/mourning. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
In token of this general grief, I covered the deep for him, put that into black, gave a stop to business, in complaisance to this universal mourning. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The boxiness of museums also suggests coffins, crypts, and mausoleums; museums are places of mourning as well as ecstatic communion.
The elegiac sonnet provides this opportunity for the poet, for it literally becomes a song of mourning.
But he was discomforted with that saying, and went away mourning, for he had great possessions.
Verbal testimony connected his great poem of farewell and consolation, for example, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (with its famous image of the couple as “stiffe twin compasses”) with Donne’s departure for France in 1611. The Biographical Fallacy
Mr Smith had 30 horses, which were stabled on the upper floor of the building, and a fleet of wagonettes, gigs, landaus, hearses, wedding and mourning coaches, which entered by a ramp at the front entrance.
So he deplored his condition, with tears in his eyes, and obtested them by the kindness due from them, as of his kindred, and by the faith they owed to God, and begged of them that they would not hinder him of this honorable mourning at his funeral. Antiquities of the Jews
Some protesters wore black arm bands as a sign of mourning.
The black tulle crinoline is classic mourning dress.
The tondo in Plate II, for example, is the earliest known version of the Trinity with God the Father mourning over the body of his dead son.
There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly.
The precise formulation is instructive for the ways that it connects the issue of un/mourning to the place of literature in psychical reality. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
“True, true,” said Cromwell, “they shall be removed to the churchyard, and every soldier shall attend with cockades of sea-green and blue ribbon — Every one of the non-commissioned officers and adjutators shall have a mourning-scarf; we ourselves will lead the procession, and there shall be a proper dole of wine, burnt brandy, and rosemary. Woodstock
Whether in anticipation, or in fear, or in mourning the loss of all the seconds passed, it shivers. ALICE AFTER THE MALL • by John Jasper Owens
Carolina -- one of them was a signer of the declaration of Independence and governor of the state. sabre (sa'ber), a sword with a broad, heavy blade, usually curved. sackcloth (sak'kloth '), a garment worn in mourning or penitence. saddle-girth (sad'l-gurth), that which fastens on the saddle. saddletree, frame of a saddle. sage (saj), wise. Elson Grammar School Literature v4
In the meantime, Monday's seaplane crash left many families in mourning right before Christmas.
Hopefully, the pertinent questions will be asked after the initial period of mourning.
In those days, people walked around in sackcloth and ashes, when they were in mourning, fasting, or in a state of repentance. Sackcloth and Ashes
As upon a world canopied with storm, hung with mourning purple and habited in black, did Mr. Flitcroft turn his morning face at eight o'clock antemeridian Monday, as he hied himself to his daily duty at the Washington National Bank. The Conquest of Canaan
The giant white screen flashed images of people in the streets mourning Corrie's death.
The mourning mother recirculates the lament of the earlier lines as Orpheus and Calliope are themselves ‘fall'n on evil days.’
There will be no more struggle with sin, no more suffering or sorrow, no more pain or loss, no more death or mourning.
The husband or wife chants a song of praise and lamentation (mourning).
Upon hearing the news, the families began sitting shiva, the Jewish mourning ritual.
Jack, who came from New York every week, would have liked what he called a blow-out, but the recent death of the Colonel and Amy's mourning precluded that, and only a very few were bidden to the ceremony, which took place in the drawing-room of the Crompton House, instead of the church. The Cromptons
The skill and craftmanship is breathtaking, and will have you mourning for what seems like an increasingly lost artform. Times, Sunday Times
Hands up those already mourning the predicted end of the smock dress? Times, Sunday Times
The governor decreed a day of mourning.
Mourning residents are indignant over what they call negligence on the part of the club's management, which President Dmitry Medvedev also criticized in a nationally televised videoconference on Saturday. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
The color black is traditionally associated with mourning.
The queen was dressed in mourning.
He records the theater marquee as it changes through one final calendar of concerts, ending with a somber marquee bearing only black bunting and the American flag as a sign of mourning.
We stood apart in ideas but together in mourning of a foregone moment, of black communities with a long gone connectedness although just as much disagreement.
Still mourning the loss of The Closer? The Sun
The folks at Island / DefJam Records are mourning the loss of Shakir Stewart, the 34-year-old executive vice president of the label overseen by L.A. Reid. Alanat News
It makes a mockery out of death and mourning. Times, Sunday Times
Her spokeswoman said: ‘Ms Andrews firmly believes that while the entire world is in mourning, it would be an expression of insensibility on her part to participate in a festive act.’
Expect to feel angry, depressed and confused. It's all part of the mourning process.
At the end of the third year I waxed aweary of this lonesome mourning, and one day I happened to enter the cenotaph when vexed and angry with some matter which had thwarted me, and suddenly I heard her say: — O my lord, I never hear thee vouch safe a single word to me! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
At the beginning, the altar has no cloths on it, and the candles remain unlit as a sign of mourning. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
THE colour of mourning in Chapeco is a verdant green. Times, Sunday Times
This ludicrous fuss epitomises our confused attitude to official mourning.
Today she is sitting in a deep freeze waiting to be mounted, and the angling world is in mourning. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, Lyneham is in mourning for its dead ... the airbase community stunned by the tragedy.
Mourning in anticipation, 71 railway enthusiasts took steam's eclipse by diesel and electric traction to be history's greatest betrayal.
His home region of Cantabria immediately announced three days of official mourning. Seve mourned by Spain
Northampton is mourning the loss of one of its elderly residents.
What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! Vanity Fair
black bombazine is frequently used for mourning garments
The national mourning, the shared grief, exactly the right responses to a single, spasmatic act of madness. CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2001
Looking back at my review of Mourning Becomes Electra's debut, I notice that I complained of the opera's uncertain dramatic pacing and the music's phlegmatic, anonymous character.
Mourning becomes Electra
Instead, his family are left mourning a man whose hopes for a peaceful life in Thailand ended in unimaginable torture and horror and whose death has changed many people's futures.
For those already mourning the imminent void in jump racing's rich tapestry, there is heartening news. Times, Sunday Times
Still mourning the loss of The Closer? The Sun
¶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Amos 5.
The amethystine ring from which had been streamed the circling veils was cracked and blackened; like a seam of coal it had stretched around the Pit — a crown of mourning. The Metal Monster
Amusing facts about the mourning dove like all birds, are unable to sweat, so to stay cool during the hot months of the year they pant just like a dog.
Mr Smith had 30 horses, which were stabled on the upper floor of the building, and a fleet of wagonettes, gigs, landaus, hearses, wedding and mourning coaches, which entered by a ramp at the front entrance.
Monday, the family erected a white tent of mourning outside their house in Rimal, on the outskirts of Gaza City.
His family are still mourning John's tragic death .
Those who work with bereaved people see mourning divided into four distinct stages.
The significance of tobacco in Native North America is well-known, and its presence as a part of mourning ceremonialism has also been documented.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
Last year, when I was still walking almost daily through my neighborhood, there were quail everywhere, as well as mourning doves.
It was a sunless afternoon, and the picture was all in monastic shades of black and white and ashen grey: the sick under their earth-coloured blankets, their livid faces against the pillows, the black dresses of the women (they seemed all to be in mourning) and the silver haze floating out from the little acolyte's censer. Fighting France
That I was born in a Christian land, of pious parents, who gave me religious instructions; brought up under faithful, lively ministers, and in religious society; exposed to few temptations but what arose from the corruptions of my own heart, are aggravations, which, perhaps, many are mourning over, as heightening the sin of unbelief in their unregenerated state. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.
Besieged by the headlines, he sits isolated in his own dejected box of darkness, looking like the face of mourning America.
On fire when reflecting on the losses she had sustained, mourning over friends slain and kingdoms lost, the proudest and most passionate of princesses was ill suited to dwell with the gayest and best-humored of sovereigns, whose pursuits she contemned, and whose lightness of temper, for finding comfort in such trifles, she could not forgive. Anne of Geierstein
Butterflies including the tiger swallowtail and mourning cloak rely on the flowers of the red maple for their survival and reproduction.
Most local histories end on an elegiac note, mourning the decline of the ‘community’ which, they imply, was once coterminous with their locality.
Perhaps, dislocated as they are now from their original telos, the cycle could continue to release cathectic energies and be transformed into a nonspecific work of mourning.
Jehovah's dealing with his people, the mourning for her presence being the completest expression of grief, we can come to understand something of the Jewish ideal of marriage and of the high honor, _because of this ideal_, in which women were held. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
The branches serve as a handy perch for the sparrows and mourning doves that frequent my city bird feeder.
Many bore on their person all the iconography of World War II "Chetnik" nationalists: bandoliers across their chests and huge combat knives on their belts; fur hats with symbols of skull and crossbones; black flags, also with skull and crossbones; and the full beard, which, as Ivo Banac says, "in the peasant culture of Serbia is a sign of mourning; somebody dies, one does not shave. America and the Bosnia Genocide
The period of mourning was clearly over with; sic transit Jasper Flodge. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
The costumes were stunning, particularly a lavendar and black dress that Victoria wore when she was in half-mourning. Sunday Movie Review: The Young Victoria
A New Shirt, a novel, and the story collections The Mourning Thief, Lebanon Lodge, and A Link with the River show Hogan anatomizing his own fictional world of the western midlands.
I've gone to the keyboard in times of celebration and mourning and never has the instrument failed to comfort or cheer me.
And silent was that half-mourning dinner in the heat. To Let
The media world is mourning the loss of one of its more colourful characters. Times, Sunday Times
Anna is the melancholic woman of sorrows, completely dedicated to mourning the memory of her dead lord and master, while at the same time memorializing his life.
The period during which the Abbacy remained vacant, was a state of mourning, or, as their emblematical phrase expressed it, of widowhood; The Abbot
At first he thought I was just feeling bad because maybe I was feeling like I hadn't really done every single thing I could have done to save our marriage, but to me, the marital regrets were secondary to the inexplainable feeling of mourning that I have had all day. Wilberteets Diary Entry
It is a book centered around the Victorian notions of death and the rituals of mourning and the idea and function of the cemetery.
After a "lifelong, congenital disappointment," a deeper thirst is troubling him, too, a desperate desire for a kind of beauty that seems out of reach: "He can't stop himself from mourning some lost world, he couldn't say which world exactly but someplace that isn't this. Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
In their voices I could hear the sorrow of a mother, of a village, lamenting their losses and mourning for their children.
Mourning families had been forced to keep the corpses of dead loved ones in their homes because there was no way undertakers could reach them.
But if you go to the Capitol today, you will see the room where Washington was to have been buried, and that's where they store the catafalque, which is used in national mourning. Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation
Many potential buyers have already stepped forward and the next step is to winnow that group to a handful, said Meade, but the process will pause during a period of mourning for Mrs. Cohen. Politics and Prose co-owner Carla Cohen has died
A bell tolled one long note of mourning as she realised this meant farewell not only to her father, but to her mother as well.
She is called Mrs. Graham, and she is in mourning — not widow’s weeds, but slightish mourning — and she is quite young, they say, — not above five or six and twenty, — but so reserved! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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