For her sake, If pity dwells on earth or highest heaven, May it this mourner comfort!
Moreover, washing the feet at the entrance to a home is connected with funerals, inasmuch as, on the return from the burning-ground, a mourner may not enter the house until he has washed his feet.
In like manner, the chief mourner at the funeral among many castes, after breaking a water-pot at the graveside, retires without looking back.
At a Nayar funeral in Malabar, the chief mourner holds in his hand, or tucks into his waist-cloth, a piece of iron, generally a long key.
On the sixth day after the death of a Korava, the chief mourner kills a fowl, and mixes its blood with rice.
Jyanough was expected to act the part of chief mourner in these ceremonies; and the real affection he had entertained for his uncle induced him to comply, and to remain all that day, and all the following night, at the grate.
When Haunch approached the grave, leading Oriana's pony, the mourner looked up, and gazed in his face again with that sad and inquiring look.
There was another mourner for her loss, William of Austria, who, notwithstanding the entreaties of his subjects, had remained single for her sake.
She never attempted direct consolation, but interested the mourner in some trifle, or coaxed her into conversation or employment.
A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
If the mourner depositing his offrwm be wealthy, he will give perhaps a guinea; if a farmer or tradesman, his gift will be a crown; and if poor, he will lay down his sixpence.
By a most graceful custom which also prevailed until recently, each mourner at a funeral carried in his hand a sprig of rosemary, which he threw into the grave.
It is also the name for the chief mourner at funerals of Nayars and other castes on the west coast.
The chief mourner then goes into the water, carrying the effigy, which is thrown in, and dives as many times as there have been days between the funeral and the karmandhiram.
Coming home, the chief mourner places in the hands of the Gurukara or headman of the caste a jewel or other valuable article as a security that he will duly perform all the funeral rites.
Along with the chief mourner (the son of the deceased) and his brothers, they go to the nearest tank or river to bathe.
On the sixth day, the chief mourner must kill a fowl, and mix its blood with rice.
When the soil has been loosely piled in, a pot of fire, carried by the chief mourner in a split bamboo, is broken, and a pot of water placed on the raised mound.
Pollution of the chief mourner lasts for five days.
When the corpse has been laid on the pyre, the relations throw rice over it, and the chief mournergoes three times round the pyre, carrying on his shoulder a pot of water, in which a barber makes holes.
Each mourner throws on this spot handfuls of cooked rice, coloured yellow and red, and cries out "Oh!
The chief mourner offers these to the dead person, and makes a bundle of them in his cloth.
After a time, medicine men approach the mourner with suggestions that it is well to take up the care of his bundle now.
When he consents, a sweat house is made and after the ceremony, the mourner is painted and newly dressed.
But in the midst of this gallant badinage, the men regarded him as something more than the gay Cicisbeo, who had followed the illustrious mourner from her widowed pilgrimage through Italy.
But the beautiful mourner had lived too long in courts, to permit her rivals to perceive the complete victory events had given them over her.
Must ye for ever walk the ethereal round, For ever see the mourner lie An exile of the sky, A prisoner of the ground?
Sentiment, again, sails very near the wind of the ludicrous in the reply to the Traveller's remark that the mourner had been a merciful master to the dead ass.
It immediately occurred to us, that our beloved parents had made this a favourite haunt in happier days; and that the undying memory of some faithful mourner had sought again these now almost obliterated characters.
Such mourner could have been no other than the dear surviving guardian of our youth; and our tears flowed without restraint, as we read again and again, the stanzas of which we had become accidentally possessed.
I drew nearer, for my heart told me who the mourner was.
To spread the rays of heavenly light, To give the mourner joy, To preach glad tidings to the poor, Was his divine employ.
The funeral, under the direction of Mr. Richard Shackford, who acted as chief mourner and was sole mourner by right of kinship, took place in profound silence.
Did ever mourner plead with thee, And thou refuse that mourner's plea?
Oh most degrading of all ills that wait On man, a mourner in his best estate!
When he left Canada, the onlymourner besides the churchmen was his colleague, the intendant Champigny; for the two chiefs of the colony, joined in a common union with the Jesuits, lived together in unexampled concord.
And Morn in secret shall renew the tear Of Consciousness awaking to her woes, And Fancy hover o'er thy bloodless bier, Till my frail frame return to whence it rose, And mourned and mourner lie united in repose.
Thus thy glory was made known; With the mourner thou didst grieve, Every human want relieve; Far thy matchless power above Stands the witness of thy love.
Then shall the trembling mourner come, And bind his sheaves, and bear them home, The voice long broke with sighs shall sing, Till heaven with hallelujahs ring.
The mourner Thou hast comforted, The pure in heart their God have seen.
This is a most unfilial tendency of mine, for my father absolutely loved a funeral; and as he was a man of a fine presence, and looked the mourner well, he was asked to every interment of distinction.
She slumbers well in her lowly bed, With never a tear of love or pity By kindly mourner above her shed.
And the lone mourner weeps in desolation, Earth's fairest seeping in the silent tomb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mourner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bearer; malcontent; mute
