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Sentence Examples The significance of tobacco in Native North America is well-known, and its presence as a part of mourning ceremonialism has also been documented. Tell us about the empty gravesites, and how do you even go forward mourning those that haven't even been identified or recovered? The storm cloud outside the window was a common nineteenth-century symbol of sadness and mourning. The film traces her mourning following the deaths of her husband and daughter and her subsequent attempts to rebuild her life. She's also hoping to prevent the establishment of hunting seasons on mourning doves, sandhill cranes, and wolves. So it's like a celebration of life more than the mourning of somebody's death. Shallow, I know, but I had two small children then and was in mourning for my lost stomach and thighs. There will be no more struggle with sin, no more suffering or sorrow, no more pain or loss, no more death or mourning. The university closed for three days as of Friday and flags are flying at half-mast in mourning of the rector's death. His death occasioned an outpouring of condolences, mourning, and reflection. During Australia's national day of mourning yesterday, barbecues were organised, and surfers scattered flowers. Instead it seems to concern a young man in mourning who lives in the town of Solebury, Pennsylvania. With victory this time, it seemed, came intense mourning and an intimation of mortality. And think of his parents and family and their pain and mourning when they finally discovered what happened to their missing son. It was a semi-official day of mourning because of the death of Queen Mother Juliana. To this day I cannot forget the deep and sincere sorrow and mourning that engulfed Pakistan. There was a long silence broken only by the sad calls of two mourning doves. The triumphalism gives way to the mourning contemplation of a dear departed friend's great qualities of heart and mind. Widowed at an early age, she ruled alone without her adored Albert and made the era redolent with the ritual of death and mourning. The pub trade in York is now mourning the loss of a good licensing officer who bitterly regrets the part he played in his own downfall. Show More Sentences Never before had I a day of mourning that was so personal and so universal. There should be a day of national mourning when we grieve for the waste of life. But are the city's chocolate fans mourning their loss or looking forward to enjoying the newly-packed sweets? As well as mourning someone's death, one ought to be able to celebrate their life. At the moment it's a bit of a mourning process but he will definitely bounce back, no two ways about it. Of course, the citizens of Monaco are in deep mourning, and the entire principality is really shut down. People of Crettyard and the surrounding areas are in deep mourning this week after learning of the death of father-of-four Patrick Kelly. It is believed that ancient Hawaiians blackened their faces and limbs when in mourning. If Australia somehow pull off victory this week, it should not be a matter for national mourning. Last year, when I was still walking almost daily through my neighborhood, there were quail everywhere, as well as mourning doves. I had a black mourning gown sewn up for me and matching headdress with seed pearls. This year it also finds the country in the leaden grip of a seemingly endless process of mourning. Her last wishes state that there should be no mourning and that no black is to be worn to the service. Hundreds of Shiite worshippers, weeping and moaning in grief, beat their chests in mourning. One mourner said her journey through the stages of mourning was like being in a cocoon. The answer, again, comes in the theory of masochistic self-reproach sparked by the perpetual process of mourning an irreconcilable loss. Let me remind you of the now familiar distinction between mourning and melancholia. The variety melanite was once used in mourning jewelry, but does not have any gem use nowadays. Butterflies including the tiger swallowtail and mourning cloak rely on the flowers of the red maple for their survival and reproduction. The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre. Show More Sentences Funerals are now talked about as much as they ever were in the morbid high Victorian era of mourning stationery and seraphic monuments. Pointing accusing fingers at this moment would only aggravate the pain of those mourning. The tondo in Plate II, for example, is the earliest known version of the Trinity with God the Father mourning over the body of his dead son. Women don't want a block of colour, especially not black after all this mourning. A bell tolled one long note of mourning as she realised this meant farewell not only to her father, but to her mother as well. But the shame and the revulsion, the eyes like a mourning shroud, would torment his mind. The branches serve as a handy perch for the sparrows and mourning doves that frequent my city bird feeder. Some women, when they learn of what happened, go into a deep mourning and try to deal with it. It was the voices of a thousand songbirds, of waves lapping against the shore, and of a pack of wolves, mourning the loss of their leader. It began to fill with peasants and nobles, mourning for those who had fallen in battle all that way from home. Full mourning cloak was worn by chief mourners, with the train carried by train-bearers. And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death. The town of Bunclody was in deep mourning at the news of the tragic death of Paul Cowman, Mill Road, which took place at his home recently. The city was engulfed by shock transmuted into compassion, grief and mourning. Apparently the immediate mourning of Otua's passing had disappeared, but Lee could still sense a deeply buried feeling of grief. Cardinals will dress in violet, as a sign of mourning, rather than their habitual red, until the Pope's burial. The whole countryside is in deep mourning over this tragic event that turned a sporting day into one of darkest sorrow. The elegiac sonnet provides this opportunity for the poet, for it literally becomes a song of mourning. The district was in deep mourning when Mrs Hillary, a former teacher, died of cancer last July. Cinema's birth or rebirth is intimately linked to its death and the process of its mourning. Show More Sentences Each service includes short scripture readings, petitions regarding mourning, suggestions for reflection, and room for journaling. Besieged by the headlines, he sits isolated in his own dejected box of darkness, looking like the face of mourning America. At the peak of her ambiguous angst, she beats her breast in sappy mourning upon the death of her father. Flamenco dance legend Antonio Canales, a Spanish national treasure, plays a Roma clan leader mourning the death of his daughter. It would take a hard heart to be unmoved by the mourning of those bereaved by the Bali bombing. It may be that in the faint candle light the improvised cook of the party ebonizes the flapjacks and puts mourning edges on the bacon. They bunched at the top of the steps, utterly stopped by the slender woman dressed in mourning, holding the door shut. While mourning in a rather frosty manner, Laura discovers a man living in her home. This displaced mourning makes the unmothered daughter assume the burden of the mother's disowned grief. To my horror, I was late, dressed in a mourning black crumply dress, and walked smack into a multitude of reporters and cameras. When Derrida came to my uni a couple of years ago, he spoke on mourning and forgiveness. On the second day, we went to visit a couple of family friends and a relative who are in mourning. For wildlife this is a boon, especially for white-winged and mourning doves. Since the crows have been arriving in greater numbers on this hill, I have been spotting fewer and fewer mourning doves around the house. Rimrock's seeds also make an excellent food for game birds like mourning dove and valley quail or for songbirds such as green-tailed towhee. In the meantime, Monday's seaplane crash left many families in mourning right before Christmas. From this vantage point I have photographed the scrub jay, mourning dove, California thrasher, and California towhee at the birdbath. Levy's mourning involves a considered ironizing of the conditions both of sympathy and rationality. Many Koreans believe in ancestral spirits and observe Confucian rituals concerning funerals, mourning practices, and memorial services. I don't believe there is anyone who has not heard the cooing of a mourning dove. Show More Sentences The Condolence ceremony, for installing new leaders or for mourning, is also maintained. She wore cap of burnt kopi for several months until her mourning was ended. The Fast of Atonement was instituted in expiation of a mortal sin and observed as a day of penance and mourning. The photos showed the mourning kopi, the beautifully made loin cloths and bags, and sometimes even their manufacture. By many a discarded camp you would see a discarded pa-ta, a widow's kopi mourning cap, lying there in pieces. The oldest recorded columbid is a mourning dove that lived 19 years and 4 months. Women wore wrap-arounds imprinted with Kabila's image, and practically every car was bedecked with leaves as a sign of mourning. In the courtyard, there were six mourning altars for the dead villagers lined with flower wreaths. She ran her hand through the water in mourning for her lost innocence, and her inability to fight him. We would watch for low-flying herons along the shore, and somewhere hear gentle mourning doves in the breaking dawn. Ossetians say the end of the mourning period could herald an outbreak of inter-ethnic violence among Ossetians and ethnic Ingush who live there. Many are mourning the death of a warm, intelligent and compassionate young woman. The Condolence ceremony for mourning is an important event in Iroquois society and is influenced by the Hurons ' Feast of the Dead. In their voices I could hear the sorrow of a mother, of a village, lamenting their losses and mourning for their children. And while yellow symbolises cowardice in the UK and US, it is the colour of mourning in Egypt and Burma. Of course, we still have our year-round chickadees, titmice, cardinals, woodpeckers, mourning doves and song sparrows. This leads to feelings of loss, guilt and remorse and sets in progress the process of mourning. These were said to incarnate the spirit of their gods and their death was followed by a period of national mourning. Like Theo, I participate in the mourning of the American repertory circuit from somewhat of a remove. I remember Emmeline Grangerford's mourning memorabilia giving Huck the fantods. Show More Sentences Even today, when we approach the remaining vestige of our ancient Temple, we rend our garments like those in mourning. The Maori in New Zealand have used humming tops, with specially-crafted holes, in mourning ceremonies. He howled in mourning, vowing that the enemy would weep for years after he'd finished his revenge. Yuletide always ends up an anti-climax, resembling a period of mourning for the loss of what once was, rather than a fun and celebratory period. The small, pigeon-like birds that feed on the ground are called mourning doves because of the sad sound of their coos. I've gone to the keyboard in times of celebration and mourning and never has the instrument failed to comfort or cheer me. It is said that Abraham Lincoln in a dream saw people mourning around his body, a few days before he was shot dead. Night comes down with a pair of mourning doves softly calling from the trees below the camp. At first light, not long after the mourning doves begin their day-long cooing, the crows decide on their day's agenda. Doug talks about some local species of butterflies, ones with cool names like mourning cloaks, commas, and question marks. That is because it is a part of our mourning for the oldest of sons to have his head shaved in reverence to a dead parent. The first of these, mourning cloak butterflies, usually remain in crevices outside and only rarely make it into the cabin. The giant white screen flashed images of people in the streets mourning Corrie's death. I could wait until late May and maybe find a mourning warbler or a yellow-breasted chat. The victim's body was dissected at the scene, causing shock and public mourning. The dry, silent male mourning seemed much worse than the noisy grief of the women. The third deals with burial rites, mourning, and other kinds of ceremonies. Children under fifteen are not expected to wear mourning, nor should any girl under seventeen wear crape. The government has declared two days of mourning and an official inquiry into the crash. As the rabbi chants songs of mourning, Liz's casket is moved to a special area of the cemetery dedicated to terror victims. Show More Sentences Hopefully, the pertinent questions will be asked after the initial period of mourning. In the event, parliament proceeded with a nauseous display of collective royalist sycophancy and mourning for Britain's past imperial grandeur. Indeed, many people do not put on mourning at all, save for very near relatives. As food, wild turkeys eat its roots, and ruffed grouse, mourning doves, bobwhite, turkeys and juncos devour its seeds. Across the globe people are stunned by the Colombia space shuttle disaster, and Americans are in mourning. Vanessa discusses several months after Layla's death how western society has lost touch with rituals that express mourning. Thus, she argues, Plath's poems enact a theatrical performance rather than a sincere expression of mourning. It is a book centered around the Victorian notions of death and the rituals of mourning and the idea and function of the cemetery. But he was discomforted with that saying, and went away mourning, for he had great possessions. First the alarm bell rang at two in the mourning waking me up. Memorial Day began as Decoration Day, honoring and mourning the soldiers who died in the American Civil War. So while mourning the closing of De Robertis, consider that we might someday mourn the bankruptcy of whatever chain replaces it. Kim Chol was reportedly executed for drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death. Isis was so associated with mourning in Egypt, at funeral services women were hired to call out loud wailing lamentations as the body was escorted to the grave. The legislation, pushed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is aimed at generating funding for programs targeting game birds such as mourning doves and quail. Monongahela includes Cranberry Glades, where you'll find Swainson's and hermit thrushes, mourning warbler, northern waterthrush, and swamp sparrow. He invented a particular tomb format whereby the deceased was guaranteed eternal mourning by the sculpted weepers that surrounded the sarcophagus. Cracked corn is a favorite of mourning doves, grackles and juncos. He is, after all, a navy veteran who whistles for his children, a widower withdrawn so deeply into mourning that he flees from the memories that possess his home. Forty days is the mourning period and he was working on that last, agonizing, poignant day because he too needed the money so desperately for his remaining small family. Show More Sentences By 1915, mourning attire had begun to draw more attention to the mourner than to the deceased, drawing critics to the practice. Then, in 1978, my father died after a brutal bout with cancer, and we all went into deep mourning. I believe they were mostly Harris's checkerspots and wood nymphs, or the like, but there were also the occasional monarchs, swallowtails, and mourning cloaks. The kopi grave markers, widows' mourning caps and cylindro-conical stones that are so common to the west of the Darling River are rare to the east. Another from Tanagra in Boiotia shows a person raising a kylix or goblet while another individual raises both hands in an apparent gesture of mourning. At the close of this last stage, the bereaved is not expected to continue his mourning, except for brief moments when yizkor or yahrzeit is observed. The scrub jay drinks by lapping up the water and then tilting his head back in order to swallow, while the mourning dove dips his beak deep into the water and sips away. There has been very little mourning of this dual scalping, just a sense of inevitability. Now that the Confucian-inspired mourning period is over, the son is free to embark on his own programs and policies. If you're passing a truck driver on the road today, give them a wave because as likely as not, they'll be mourning the death of a troubadour they called their own, Slim Dusty. A fish and Wildlife special agent collected the bodies of two birds at the site, a redhead duck and a mourning dove. Their way of mourning, according to the pastor, involved research, meditation, and forethought. Anna is the melancholic woman of sorrows, completely dedicated to mourning the memory of her dead lord and master, while at the same time memorializing his life. He is in mourning for his father still, even though it's been 3 years, and goes about dressed in sables which people think terribly unfashionable. The entire nation is mourning the news, shell-shocked by images of wailing children fleeing the schools single file. After several weeks of shock and mourning, Hartley began a series of paintings known as the War Motif paintings. Bugles sound taps for the police persons, firemen and city and government and at times white doves are released at mourning services that bid farewell to groups. We pray that solace is found in the idea that Marlise Munoz is now at peace and her family may finally begin the mourning process. There are an estimated 10-12 million mourning doves in Minnesota. As mourning time progressed and the emotional strain began to subside, the black hues began to lighten. Show More Sentences Such attention comes too late to offer any succor or comfort to the families, friends, and co-workers mourning the dead. As a mourning country prepares to lay the late President kaczynski to rest, Poland is already preparing for the next campaign. Writer Benjamin Anastas has had enough with 140-character bursts, and Rushdie's mourning for Whitney Houston was the last straw. A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni. You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist. Whether mourning the miseries of war, praying for divine help or preparing herself for death, it seemed as if her life as a writer was at its end. The Red Church in the centre of Minsk, once a symbol of Belarusian nationalism, is now a place of mourning. The late-November hacking of Sony, perhaps the most vicious episode of its kind, comes at the end of the period of mourning. And for those that are left behind, they say, mourning is treated as an extreme weakness, punishable by excommunication. I wavered at seeing him so angry, but thought of all the nights he must have lain in his room weeping, mourning his dead brother the same way I mourned my mom. They say they will be mourning the loss of patient choice, two doctors and a nurse, mobile telephone access to a doctor and the surgery's support team. Either that or he was seriously mourning the loss of his bed. However, Kalaimani, unshaven and unkempt, mourning the loss of his boats had to be convinced to forget the dowry amount and encouraged to go ahead with the wedding. As the Orthodox 40-day period of mourning to mark the death of more than 350 people in the siege came to an end, she found herself blamed by many locals for the tragedy. The view that the whole nation was in mourning was well wide of the mark. By the anniversary of a person's death, mourning is complete. Dawning the simple black dress she had lain out to demonstrate her mourning for the death of some of her men, she proceeded to make her way towards the dining hall. Please know that I bear no malice towards you and that I am still in a state of shock and mourning over my sister's death and will continue to be so for a long time. Wives wear mourning for the relatives of their husbands precisely as they would for their own, as would husbands for the relatives of their wives. Does this mean the end of the mourning doves, the finches, the mocking birds, the California quail, and all the other different voices in my neighborhood of birds? Show More Sentences I did more research and I read that mourning doves can live up to seventeen years in captivity, but I'm sure they have to be active to be healthy. By the narrowest of margins, the Senate has decided to reverse a policy that has endured for nearly 60 years and to allow the target shooting of harmless mourning doves. He recalls mourning the untimely deaths of two of his mates who had been stationed in the boiler room as he watched the wreck of the ship returning to Garden Island. Gibson, similarly, knows how to do war and violence and mourning and survivor's guilt, stoicism and family life all in a very plain and unironic style. They hold funerals for their deceased and have well-established mourning rituals. These include habitats where vermin, reptiles or insects gather and, according to Al Biruni, deserted places, prisons and places of grief and mourning. He returned with a large bundle of black cloth, collected from various members of the Treochim, and usually used by them to make garments for mourning. The Genius of Mozart is still in mourning and she weeps for the death of her pupil. Today, Americans have adopted the Stars and Stripes not so much as a symbol of defiance against an aggressor but as an emblem for their grief and mourning for what happened. Perhaps, dislocated as they are now from their original telos, the cycle could continue to release cathectic energies and be transformed into a nonspecific work of mourning. Each chapter includes guidelines for special holy days and festivals, births, initiation ceremonies, funerals and mourning, and home celebrations. I chew slowly and contemplatively, remembering and mourning Cameron. The only son of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Prince Albert, becomes Monaco's de facto ruler until a formal investiture expected after a mourning period. A mourning dove cooed in the distance, accompanied by the never-ending drone of dragonflies and cicadas in the creek bed hidden behind the tall grass of the field. We stood apart in ideas but together in mourning of a foregone moment, of black communities with a long gone connectedness although just as much disagreement. This ludicrous fuss epitomises our confused attitude to official mourning. Inspiring her father to stop mourning the death of his wife and re-engage the world, Amelie kidnaps his garden gnome and sends photos of the gnome in cities around the world. Mummy and I didn't want to go down to the death-house too soon, because the aunts were in such deep mourning, always deeper in Ireland than anywhere else. He was in deep mourning and claimed exemption on the ground that he was interested in the funeral of a gentleman that day, at which he desired to be present. But underneath there is a gnawing mourning we must all tolerate. Show More Sentences As a result, modern elegies more often than not break with the decorum of earlier modes of mourning and become melancholic, self-centered, or mocking. The people were in the process of mourning the dead and rebuilding their damaged city. The early seasons for mourning doves, Canada geese, woodcock and other migratory bird species break down similarly to last year. Even in the cemeteries, however, sectionalism trumped mourning. Bleeding is notorious and the red color is the color of passion, but the cilice is a garment of rough fabric that was worn as a sign of mourning. What follows is, in many ways, a valediction against mourning, and in its wit, courage and kindliness it often brings tears to the eyes. And author Nelson Algren, angrily mourning the end of his affair with Simone de Beauvoir. Another theory is that the dressing in yellow was out of respect for Catherine as yellow was said to be the Spanish colour of mourning. His mother died on May 8, 1592, and he undertook the ritual mourning period in her honor. In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing. And with what face are Saads, Rasheeds, Nisars and the company maneuvering foxily to make the day a day of mourning? She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors. English people held Catherine in high esteem, and her death set off tremendous mourning. Eighty men in mourning garb from the province of Samaria were apparently making a pilgrimage to the temple of YHWH in the month of Tishrei. Anne ordered her household to observe a day of mourning every year on the anniversary of his death. On this day, all flags and coats of arms above the city walls were painted black as a sign of mourning. But mourning cloaks fly around in late winter and early spring, sometimes even when snow and ice are still melting. Thousands of people sat in mourning tents at the parliamentary complex in the capital Lusaka. Here, the loveful mourning that casts the prized possessions of the dead upon the pyre? Owens's own ballads, as critical reflections on this antipopu-lism, often present little more than paralinguistic gestures of this mourning. Show More Sentences During the mourning period Cuban citizens were prohibited from playing loud music, partying, and drinking alcohol. After a very brief period of mourning, Fengi marries Geruth, and declares himself sole leader of Jutland. Pupils from Boyne Community College are in mourning following the sudden death of 17-yearold Gouda Remeikaite. She entered a state of mourning and wore black for the remainder of her life. Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton is mourning the loss of her young penpal, Fabian Bale. He said that the NYPD will be in deepest mourning this Christmas season. A mourning symbol serves as a reminder to the rest of the world to treat a griever with a little more kindness, a little more patience. In the Jordanian capital of Amman, mosque loudspeakers sounded Koranic verses in mourning. June 23 has been declared a national day of mourning in Bulgaria for the victims of the floods in the Black Sea city of Varna and in Dobrich. As I write this we are mourning the recent passing of two of our retired Supply Corps flag officers, Rear Admirals Wally Dowd and Phil Crosby. After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. Notwithstanding the personal or national mourning, the Panakhyda represents, and will remain for long, a kind of national religious Universal. His early death in 1915 at the age of 37 from kidney disease caused national mourning. Following the death of Enkidu, Gilgames sinks into a deep depression, mourning both his friend and his own mortality. After her death, Belloc wore mourning for the remainder of his life, keeping her room exactly as she had left it. It took a month for the news of his death to reach London, after which Brawne stayed in mourning for six years. Cardiff, while mourning a King, welcomed a new monarch, the first Queen Regnant since Victoria died more than half a century earlier. His point of departure is Freud's Oedipal theories, and the central theme of mourning that runs through Hamlet. A clOse-knit community was in mourning yesterday after two farmhands drowned in a slurry tank. My period of mourning lasted a total of about a week, and manifest as sadness, stressful tension, and crabbiness. Show More Sentences Her mother now spends her days in unceasing mourning for the kid she lost. This mourning oneupmanship isn't just banal, it insults the British Legion. Over-enthusiastic mourning in anything stronger than a Force Four might see more going overboard than an urnful of ashes. Dark tourism remains a small niche market, driven by varied motivations, such as mourning, remembrance, education, macabre curiosity or even entertainment. Tanis MacDonald's analysis of Dionne Brand's Ossuaries reads poetry as a public archive of mourning and as a prosthetic for the violent rupture of the body and memory. Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort her. Due to their unaccountability, even the missing cannot be identified and the expeditious return of the bodies of the deceased to their mourning families has been prevented. Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning? His whereabouts over the next few years are uncertain but he seems to have failed the provincial exam at Beijing in 1594, after the mourning period was over. Walton discovers the Creature on his ship, mourning over Victor's body. He is afraid, that this Doctrine of fasting, and mourning, and tears, and humicubation, and sackcloth, and ashes, pertaineth to the establishment of Romish pennance. Though little known in the West, Russian-Jewish writers Ilya Ehrenburg and Lev Ozerov wrote poems of mourning about Babi Yar immediately after the war. A spokesman for the city hall in Algeciras, wheredeLuciawas born, confirmed his death and said the city would decree two days of official mourning. With the death of the Zhengde Emperor on April 19, 1521, mourning ceremonies were initiated that cancelled all other ceremonies, including the reception of foreign embassies. One image is of the mourning cloak caterpillar, Nymphalis antiopa. This proved impractical, and the authorities put up posters around the town advising that anyone in mourning dress would be allowed to join the procession. But he could not come in the white cloth of celebration to a burial service, and he could hardly come in the cloth of mourning to celebrate his two decades on the stool. Alignment of DNA sequences identified areas of point mutations and, in the case of a single mourning dove, the incorporation of a triplet of nucleotides. Venous blood gas and lactate values of mourning doves, boat-tailed grackles, and house sparrows after capture by mist net, banding, and venipuncture. After the execution of her kinswoman Julia Drusi Caesaris by Claudius and Messalina, remained in mourning for forty years in open, and unpunished, defiance of the emperor. Show More Sentences Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander, and he ordered the preparation of an expensive funeral pyre in Babylon, as well as a decree for public mourning. There is a lot of wisdom in the traditions about mourning, about setting a period of time in which you say Kaddish every day, that is just not available to me as an atheist. Other points of contention include certain practices viewed as innovating the religion, such as the mourning practice of tatbir, and the cursing of figures revered by Sunnis. His cheekbony face is pale grey, with a black wavy beard as in a frame of mourning, and upon it crawl, washing off the dirt, large drops of sweat. Hummingbirds cavort in her yard year-round, and on Saturday alone, she counted five mourning doves, two dark-eyed juncos, a white-crowned sparrow and two house finches. The F1 grid, mourning the first death of their generation, laid down their crash helmets in the centre of an emotional huddle as the Hungarian national anthem played out. Examples from Classical Literature Let swat bury the great AhkoondWith a noise of mourning and of lamentation! Hear what he says to ananda, the beloved disciple, who is mourning over Thariputra. When I had first seen her, she was attired, most becomingly, in deep mourning. Like the bourgeoisie, he was dressed in black, that is to say, in mourning. The cowrie ornaments were taken off when a man was mourning the death of a relation. All civilized mankind stood mourning around the coffin of the dead president. To men in deep mourning and to the census-bearers he bowed over the cross-bar. Perrine took a seat beside Rosalie and her grandmother, who was in deep mourning. Of course her words must have been appropriate, even as her demeanor was that of a mourning relative. This mourning for the means but acceptance of the fact would not be in disaccord with Ahab's moral weakness. The clown who excites the multitudes to mirth is more a benefactor than the conqueror who drapes a thousand homes in mourning. That night even the German guns stopped their drumfire, as though Sixt von Arnim's army was in mourning for its dead. Have you a certainty that Normans wife was his sister, that you are thus mourning for a fremd man? Then, covered by a mourning robe, they visited the Church of the sepulcher. Among Muhammadans, shiah women remove their nose-rings during the Muharram as a sign of mourning. Every man, woman, and child, thinks it incumbent on them to sport a mourning face. It is no mystery to me why dress fashions for women connected with the itinerancy tend to mourning shades. There was so much mourning now and according to the temps, the war was hardly begun. Are there not TENS of thousands with us mourning the lack of the power of intercession? In the course of conversation it transpires that he is mourning for his father Idomeneo. Show More Sentences And from to-day, Clmence, you must begin to wear her mourning in your heart, a heart always so maternally disposed towards her. He was made to array himself in mourning habiliments, and to sleep on a truckle bed. The Boston papers printed the act in mourning and, meetings were called to memorialize the legislature. But by a most exceptional mourning Moriah had put herself upon record as the most inconsolable of widows. We may take, however, the life of the familiar Antiopa or mourning cloak as typical of the group. George Prince was there, standing against the walls shrouded in his mourning cloak, watching the scene with alert, roving eyes. The mourning dove is a cosmopolitan species found in greater or less numbers in all sections. The mourning dove is so well known in every country that a description of it is unnecessary. Another nest, and a mourning dove's, one of the most gentle and winning of birds! Near the spring the goldfinches are still in full chorus, and just beyond them in the path is a mourning dove. The nuptial flight of these birds reminds one very much of that of the mourning dove of North America. A few minutes after they came, a mourning dove alighted on a willow at the head of the spring, about twelve rods from our camp. There is in some Varsovian families a heritage of mourning to be worn until Poland is reinstated. Perhaps it was an old flame he was in mourning for from the days beyond recall. Find more words! 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