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.