At the funeral of the Comte de Chambord the hearse was surmounted by a dome, on which rested four crowns.
I have often seen a funeral come to a dead standstill and the hearse dug out of the mud, as also teams loaded with stones for monuments in the cemetery.
We will suppose the hearse has been dug out, and in the cemetery near the grave, in many cases men might be seen bailing out the grave, one below and one on top; especially was this the case with the Roman Catholic ground.
One day I brought home a silver coffin handle for a paper weight and a fine, fluffy hearse plume to dust my papers with.
There were rows of shining rosewood caskets, black palls, trestles, hearse plumes, mourning streamers, and all the paraphernalia of the solemn trade.
I remember that a hearseand three mourning-coaches stood before the Lion, the men refreshing themselves with drink; and we wondered who was being buried that day.
Must have a hearse and coach any way: and Herbert Tanerton here won't charge fees if it's done at Timberdale.
A hearse next day its presence showed To take him to his last abode-- Brought forth amid an ullagone, The public claimed him as their own, And said, no hearse should bear his weight From thence unto the Abbey gate.
In the thrilling runaway that followed the casket fell out of the hearse and breaking open the corpse rolled out on the ground.
The automobile containing the minister, led the procession, then followed the hearse and carriages of the mourners.
The aerodrome, which filled the functions of an aerial hearse in 1999, was painted all black, hull and sails as well.
The great, cumbersome hearse had disappeared, and in the line of carriages that followed the small, light electric hearse, no horses were to be seen.
The affair having proceeded successfully thus far, the hearse moved away; and the five persons who acted as mourners entered the black coach, which also drove off.
The tube in the throat to allow respiration—and Jacob Smith in the hearse to remove the suffocating night-cap from Rainford's head, and the tube from his throat, and then to apply the hartshorn to his nostrils and his temples.
Jacob Smith was helped out immediately afterwards, and he followed the Earl, the physician, and the three servants into the house, while the mourning coach and the hearse still waited at the door.
Here the coffin was immediately taken from the hearse and carried up the stairs to the catafalque which had been prepared for its reception, while the singing societies rendered two very appropriate dirges.
The procession entered the Park at about half-past eleven o'clock, and the hearse stopped before the entrance to the Hall.
Hearse and Six, with rich trappings, feathers, and velvets, attended by Eight Pages.
The next morning at about nine o'clock, a hearse might have been seen in front of the old woman's cabin.
My prayers were unavailing, and from the window of this cell I witnessed a lonely hearse pass by, followed by none other than my infant boy and the kind old negro.
As the hearse moved slowly from the fort, to the sound of solemn music, a detachment of royal artillery began to fire the salute of nineteen guns, and the guard of honor presented arms.
A cousin of his, who had returned from market, where he had been to sell some wood, finding him in that state, bound him safe on the hearse and had him taken home.
Santi much bruised with the rope that had fastened him on, and the shock of the hearse when it fell, in addition to the horse-whipping, was put to bed black and blue.
At length the hearse was forced into the city; and here the procession was joined by the lord mayor and other authorities; the shops being closed, and the bells of the different churches tolling.
The corpse was ordered to be taken out of the hearse every night, and decently placed in the house, with tapers about it, and her servants attending, to Cornwall; and then was honorably interred in the parish church of Godolphin.
His hearse was accompanied by two non-juror bishops, Dr.
They are looking after the hearsewhich is carrying the remains of Byron up Tottenham Road.
I looked at the individual for a moment, who smiled and smirked to himself applause, and then I turned my eyes upon the hearse proceeding slowly up the almost endless street.
We shook, the band wagon hearse and me, and I felt as if I was back aboard the old Fair Breeze, handlin' cold fish.
Even while the hearse was passing somebody shouted, "Long live Castelar!
When the house is finished," says the proverb, "the hearse is at the door.
Yet this Spanish hearse is one of the gayest vehicles since Cinderella's coach.
The chanting group of clergy, uplifting the same ebony cross that they had borne for Canovas, did not entirely hush the crowd, nor did even the black-plumed hearse itself, with its solemn burden.
A shrug from the driver of the hearse was the only response.
Then we went along a wide avenue that was empty, where the sound of the wheels of the hearse and of the horses' hoofs seemed solemn and monotonous, and as if it were something that never would cease.
Then one of the croquemorts took up the box of the bigger baby and carried it out of the shed and put it, with the tin wreath on the top of it, into a hearse that there was waiting on the left of the door.
The black hearse came up the road with several croquemorts and eight Republican Guards; they had two crossed palms for the boy, and the flag to cover him, and the black wooden cross that was to mark his grave.
Alice went out of the door alone, and turned to the right, after the hearse in which was her dead child.
He helped the croquemort to take the box out of the hearse and put it in the hole.
And the other croquemort took up the box of Alice's baby and carried it out, and put it into a hearse that was waiting on the right of the door.
But I can't do a hearse any more than I can a hack; so here we are--becalmed, you see.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hearse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: automobile; bury; catafalque; enshrine; entomb; inter
