The tall firs in the avenue were tossed to and fro in the blast, like the funereal plumes of that stately hearse which was to issue at noon from the quadrangle of the castle.
And with the funereal gait other changes came--in the grimace of the over-red lips and the look of the over-bold eyes.
And on the breastplate and backplate of this armored corpse, printed in funereal black, beautiful women and intellectual men on Fifth Avenue, where the unforgivable crime is to be poor and show it, read: Yesterday I walked 19 miles.
Thus it was that our northern fishermen, not only without their intention, but even in spite of it, discovered polar America, and supped full of the horrors of funereal Greenland.
Sweeping down the course of the Gironde, it seemed that the funereal pall that rose above the Ocean, might be repulsed and dispelled.
In the midst of the sorrowing people, the count of Edessa accompanied the funereal convoy to the foot of Calvary, where Baldwin was buried close to Godfrey.
In addition, once in awhile, the penitential and funerealceremony you saw three days ago.
They crowd together in files under their funereal mantles.
It was one of the methods of explaining the absence of any religious or funereal inscription in the Great Pyramid.
On a slight eminence, shaded by funereal evergreens set in a frame of hedgerow timber, its red roof makes a cheerful spot of colour, and the interior shows a refreshingly old-fashioned simplicity.
The waves of smoke, now like densest ink pouring up from some unseen funereal funnel--now blindingly white, flung like the plume of Navarre above the tumult of the fray.
Well, I'll admit that, funereal as I may look, it's not a circumstance to the way I feel.
In the local department the atmosphere was charged with the contagious mourning of Mr. Cuyler, who with funereal face sat contemplating the shrinkage of his business.
The whistling of the wind through the rigging sounded like funereal wailings.
The coffin of Edward the Confessor has been broken open, and his remains despoiled of their funereal ornaments; the sceptre has been stolen from the hand of the imperious Elizabeth; and the effigy of Henry the Fifth lies headless.
The Duke, though he was now banished from the House of Commons, was nevertheless wanted in London; and what funereal ceremonies were left might be accomplished as well in town as at Matching Priory.
So the poor old man has gone at last," said Lady Chiltern, with that affectation of funereal gravity which is common to all of us.
Mr. Camperdown, with funereal sadness, declared that he had never looked into the matter.
The day was wet, and the funerealgarden outside was dank with rain.
There is an enormous crowd waiting to see me make my entrance to the funereal sound of the gongs and the prolonged cries of the heralds.
But the chief of the Lamas soon appears, bowing, with his keys, and we follow him across the funereal park.
They were formerly very powerful with the Celestial Emperors, and borrowed for their own tombs the funereal emblems of the princes of China.
These flames, this noise, this dust of a dozen richly caparisoned horses, formed a strange contrast in the middle of the night with the melancholy funereal disappearance of the two shadows of Aramis and Porthos.
I started in affright; it seemed to me a funereal sound,--a knell!
Built for the dead, an impenetrable enclosure surrounds it; and, nevertheless, the living have added something hostile to it by the external fortifications, which form a contrast with the silence and noble inutility of a funereal monument.
The cold and isolation of the sepulchre beneath our lovely sky, by the side of so many funereal urns, have less terrors for the human mind.
There are some in which houses for the peasantry are built; for the Romans consecrated an extensive space and vast edifices to the funereal urns of their friends or their illustrious fellow-citizens.
During three weeks not a ray of light was allowed to penetrate the gloom of the funereal hall where she sat with her ladies, while solemn requiems and Masses were chanted in the chapel.
It was a great change from the funereal blackness of the Castello of Milan and the desolate halls of Pavia, and the young Duchess enjoyed it to the full.
The thin ascetic countenance was that of a woman of strong character, and her funereal habit seemed much too large for her stunted, shrunken figure.
Aunt Pullet half-opened the shutter and then unlocked the wardrobe, with a melancholy deliberateness which was quite in keeping with the funereal solemnity of the scene.
Can one illume a leaden sky, Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high, Not one funereal glimmer pale?
For from Fame's proud sepulchral arches, Towards a graveyard lone and dumb, My sad heart, like a muffled drum, Goes beating slow funereal marches.
A few somewhat distant cannon shots still come and punctuate, if I may say so, the funereal monotony of the hours; but this intermittent music is so customary in these parts that though it is heard it attracts no notice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "funereal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
