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The cathedral of St Thomas More in Arlington, Virginia, was packed with mourners for her funeral.
Almost a thousand mourners attended the funeral, with the local Maori meeting house overflowing for the hour-long service.
Yesterday, his widow, Jane, led about 700 mourners at a funeral at St Mary's Parish Church, just a few hundred yards from the family's home.
When mass was over and more prayers had been said, each body would be brought to its grave by clergy and mourners.
Meanwhile, police have warned mourners attending the funeral that parking in the city centre may be limited.
Zizek notes that the original model for this was the phenomenon of designated mourners hired to cry at funerals in certain cultures.
The mourners arrived in their black suits led by the vicar in his white cassock.
Television may have conveyed the impression that Diana's multitudinous mourners spoke, or rather sobbed, for the whole of Britain.
Animals are slaughtered, and food and drinks are brought to feed the mourners.
By nightfall more than a thousand mourners crammed the streets outside the main gates.
During the wake, which can last up to three or four days, the casket is left open, and the mourners can kneel and say a prayer.
It is understood the service could have been held at the dead of night, so as not to upset mourners attending other cremations.
Letters were stuck to headstones instructing mourners to remove ornaments and embellishments because they made the cemetery untidy.
Inside the apartment, Saeed's mother wept as she sat on the floor, surrounded by female relatives and other mourners.
A large concourse of mourners were present at both removal and funeral mass.
The Adventists also reserve the right to halt funeral services or burials if the rules of conduct are breached by mourners.
In all kinds of societies throughout human history professional mourners, wailers or keeners, have been paid to produce hireling tears.
Around 600 mourners filled the seats and aisles of St Andrew's to watch Mr Lewis's coffin carried in by some of his friends.
At a humanist ceremony at York Crematorium, conducted by Maggie Blunt, mourners sat and kneeled in the aisles because every seat was taken.
In one sense, Schaller correctly assesses the New Paradigm refuseniks as mourners for the lost order.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Of all the anticipatory mourners, the most demonstrative was the sympathetic widow.
Next followed mourners, and after them the herald, with the dead man's coat armour, checkered silver and azure.
The phrators of the decedent in a body were the mourners, and the members of the opposite phratry conducted the ceremonies.
Coupeau and Lorilleux, in frock coats and with their hats in their hands, were chief mourners.
They are paid mourners, and attend at the trivandrum palace when a death occurs in the royal family.
Here the mourners gathered round to take a last look of the uncoffined corpses of the brave.
No doubt he made his living as mourner at funerals to which no other mourners came.
There had been only two mourners, of whom Moroni had been one.
When death had stricken Oliver Cromwell, that mighty protector had no sincerer mourners than in New England.
Chattering sadly to each other, the mourners passed through the lych-gate and traversed the chestnut avenues that led down to the village.
This long procession of mourners continued all day Thursday and Friday.
It may be doubted whether this communication went a far way to increase Wilfred's disposition to sympathize with the mourners of Coningsburgh.
Fell on the anguish and hope in the tearful eyes of the mourners.
All through the night we knelt and prayed, Mad mourners of a corse!
The pale sad face of Lucullus was conspicuous among the mourners.
The sun found the Lenape, on the succeeding day, a nation of mourners.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers, their badges covered with black tape, were in the audience of about 1,500 mourners at funeral services for Officer Karl Duane Simons.
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