obsequy

Example Sentences

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"Whether derided or praised," the historian Robert Rotberg has written, "he remains an object of calumny, obsequy and inquiry."

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2015

I was glad when it was over; our own simple service, read by the merest layman, would surely have been a more fitting obsequy.

From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

If a tear escape her eye 'Tis not for my memory But thy rights of obsequy.

From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis

The second day after his obsequy was done reverently, and on his body laid a tomb of stone and his banner hanging over him.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

From this session interdict   Every fowl of tyrant wing   Save the eagle, feather'd king: Keep the obsequy so strict.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir