"funeral" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Her escorts turned back even before the huge vessel capsized beneath a funeral pall of roiling black smoke.
- Beyond lay another chamber very like the one they were in, with another door in the opposite wall and another tree-trunk coffin set across the floor, the rotting funeral pall festooning it in shreds.
- In the Orthodox funeral, the coffin is usually open in church (unlike the West, where it is usually closed), and the lower part of the coffin is covered with a funeral pall.
- The darkness settled over him like the heavy velvet folds of a funeral pall.
- When a bishop dies, his mantle is laid on his coffin in place of a funeral pall.
- The air reeked with a thick acrid smoke hanging like a funeral pall over the shattered remains of men, jokers, and machines.
- The final curtain comes down, "a funeral pall," signaling an end to the "tragedy, 'Man'" whose only hero is "The Conqueror Worm".
- The vestry contains the Culpeper needlework, a 17th-century embroidery on velvet associated with the Culpeper family, thought previously to have been an altar cloth, but now believed to be a funeral pall.
- The presence of copper rosettes indicate that a funeral pall was draped on a frame associated with the shrine, also comparable to Tutankhamun's shrines.
- The king's body, now coffined in oak and covered with a rich funeral pall, traveled in a litter borne by two black horses and escorted by a score of black-clad Custodes knights.
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