Then I followed as chief mourner with my wife: after me the Alderman my uncle and his lady.
On the day of the funeral, then, I presented myself, with Alice, properly habited, to take my place as chief Mourner.
Mr. Matthew will assume the place of the heir, and his father will be chief mourner.
Uncle Paul,' I said, 'I take my place as my father's chief mourner.
The Karta (chief mourner), who is the nearest male relative, has to get his whole head shaved.
On his return home, a turban is placed on the head of the son who acted as chief mourner by his maternal uncles.
Dorset followed the procession from Hampton Court to Windsor, riding close to the Princess Mary, who was her stepmother’s chief mourner.
Low Masses were said in the chapel at Whitehall, at an altar erected at the foot of the catafalque, from four o’clock in the morning until ten, when High Mass was chanted, the Marquis of Dorset acting as chief mourner.
On Monday, the 31st, arrived the ceremonial mourners from London, escorting the Countess of Bedford, who was to represent Elizabeth in the mockery of acting as chief mourner to the poor victim.
Chief mourner at both these funerals, she was not conscious of the fact.
Footnote 16: See Suspense, The Highland Shepherd's Chief Mourner, War, and The Hunted Stag.
With almost equal facility for humor and pathos, he alternated between such inimitable satire as the Jack in Office and such poignant tragedy as the Highland Shepherd's Chief Mourner.
Like the bloodhound in the picture of Suspense, and like The Highland Shepherd's Chief Mourner, the horse is raised by the dignity of suffering to the level of human emotion.
The karta (chief mourner) has to get himself completely shaved, and wears the sacred thread throughout the period of pollution, or at least on the sixteenth day.
The son of the deceased, who officiated as chief mourner, goes to a Pillayar (Ganesa) shrine, carrying on his head a pot containing a lighted lamp made of flour.
The karma karta (chief mourner) walks thrice round the corpse, carrying an earthen vessel filled with water, in which two or three holes are pierced.
Many of Landseer's paintings are of scenes in Scotland, as is this one, "Highland Shepherd's Chief Mourner.
Who is to perform the funeral rites at my death if you cannot be chief mourner?
If I do not take upon myself the duties of chief mourner, on whom do they fall?
Presently Mr. Podger was picking Mr. Polly out as Chief Mourner to go with Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Larkins and Annie in the first mourning carriage.
Jet cuff links he ought to have--as chief mourner," said Mrs. Johnson.
There they were tugging at his mind, and the funeral tugging at his mind, too, and the sense of himself as Chief Mourner in a brand new silk hat with a broad mourning band.
When Smithson had first mentioned, that the person who had killed his father, was the same who had acted the part of chief mourner at the funeral, Charles Tyrrell had covered his eyes with his hands, and leant forward upon the bar.
As Sir Francis had no near relation living but his son, Mr. Driesen acted the part of chief mourner.
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