exequies

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Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required of such exequies 150 years ago, it's hard to think of an American artist whose death, tomorrow, would inspire such sentiments.

From Time Magazine Archive

The exequies over the body were as solemn as they were premature; dust devils of argument spun through art magazines, scattering the ashes.

From Time Magazine Archive

V. on Tennyson's In Memoriam, 506. —— on allusion in Trinit�ll Hall's exequies, 252. —— on the derivation of Voltaire, 329.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Retire, brave followers, unto Troynouant, Where we shall celebrate these exequies, And place young Locrine in his father's tomb.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard