Taps was played, as were the mournful strains of "Amazing Grace," performed on bagpipes by the Eastern Long Island Law Enforcement Emerald Society.

I passed out cold to the mournful strains of a dirge.

Christian wiped down the bar and tried not to listen to the mournful strains of the Rickenbacker, tried to blot out lyrics like 'This heart was made for drinkin', not for thinkin'.

It was a very low and mournful strain - a Dirge -- and as he listened, Trotty heard his child among the singers.

Mr. Pellicoro, dark haired and lithe, was maneuvering her effortlessly around the floor, their legs entangling and disentangling, to the mournful strains of tango music, which has been called the Latin blues.

The victims' fresh graves were thick with flowers as a gun salute and the mournful strains of taps floated over the crowd of several hundred.

Aristophanes mentions a mournful strain, set to more flutes than one (xynaulia) as well known at Athens under the name of Olympus.

But as often happened the mood conquered, and Betty permitted herself to sink for the moment into the sad thoughts which returned like a mournful strain of music once sung by beloved voices, now forever silent.

Only as our eyes adjust, and as the mournful strains of Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder" rise and fall on the soundtrack, do we realize that wisps of color are seeping onto the screen.

Forgoing any fanfare beyond the mournful strains of Michael Brook's score, Mr. Schrader has made a film that needs to be watched carefully.