| Over the weekend his body lay in state in a silver mounted coffin on a catafalque in front of the Speaker's platform. |
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| By last night, almost 50,000 people were expected to have filed past the catafalque. |
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| The bearer party lifts the coffin from the catafalque in Westminster Hall and carries it to the gun carriage outside the North Door. |
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| They were driven back by police and soldiers, and the coffin was taken in and placed on a towering catafalque. |
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| Propped up at one end by a broken-off marble Ionian capital is a long, slanting wooden board, suggesting a collapsed catafalque. |
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| Eight pall bearers from the Irish Guards lifted it from the gun-carriage and carried it slowly to the catafalque. |
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| The cadet contingent also provided a guard at the Cenotaph for Tuesday's remembrance service and the catafalque party demonstrated a memorable and solemn performance. |
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| Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. |
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| Mr Byrd's coffin was brought to the Senate and laid on the same catafalque that was used at Abraham Lincoln's state funeral. |
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| These objects were probably mounted at the heads of poles supporting a catafalque or canopy. |
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| Then the Navy marines lifted the coffin from the hearse and placed it on the catafalque set up in the centre of the barge. |
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| The second room houses the wooden catafalque over the tomb of Sidi Qasim, next to a fine commemorative inscription. |
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| The group moves through the alley of French Colours to a dais opposite the catafalque. |
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| Don Giuseppe Sembianti had the eulogy and posters in honour of the deceased printed and placed around the catafalque. |
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| I opened the door, saw a covered room and a catafalque in the middle: Therefore a hall for putting on the bier! |
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| I can tell you that the few occasions that I have been involved with armed gaurds at catafalque parties that Navy Cadets have never sloped arms with.303 rifles. |
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| The coffin will be placed on a catafalque of rough pine boards, nailed together and covered with black cloth, which was first used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral. |
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| The Queen had already arrived and came to join the procession as it was borne inside to the waiting catafalque and to the start of the lying-in-state. |
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| This occurs at the wake, during the procession to the cemetery and on the ninth day of mourning, when prayers are recited in front of a three-tiered catafalque carrying a doll representing the dead. |
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| In the order indicated above the subdeacon and acolytes pass on the left side of the catafalque, preceded by the thurifer and server with holy water. |
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| The black funeral pall covers the catafalque. |
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| In a compelling broad two-storey corridor designed in the Gothic Revival style with a vaulted ceiling, the coffin of the Unknown Canadian Soldier lies on a catafalque. |
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| A catafalque is a raised bier or platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of the deceased during a funeral or memorial service. |
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| At the Banko ceremony, three years after the death, the same catafalque is prepared and the living take leave of the deceased, who then becomes an ancestor. |
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| Even before we took away the catafalque the news came of the death of another of my missionaries, Rev. Antonio Dobale, who died of typhoid fever at El Obeid. |
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| Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque. |
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| The interior of a catafalque decorated in black, pink and silver. |
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