Men and women, children and animals, all were equally desirable food for its insatiate maw, and the whole land of Ethiopia lay in mourning because of it.
Knappe was mourning the defeat and death of his country-folk, he was standing aghast over the ruin of his own career, when Mullan boarded him.
He and his wife had no ambition to be the leaders of society; the consulate was in their time no house of feasting; but they made of it that house of mourning to which the preacher tells us it is better we should go.
That was old Sir Claude's hair set round with a mourning border of black and a row of small lustrous pearls: the topazes?
Her mourning and retirement made it easy for her sister to regain the reins which had slipped out of her hands, and establish her own more rigorous system.
A girl in mourning sat down on one of the benches.
The evening deepened its mourning for the dead day.
In contrast to their loud sorrow was the silent mourning of the men who, hushed and fasting, sat in the chief house of the town.
Amongst the wives of the citizens appeared Devaki, mourning for her son, whose lovely face she longed to behold, even in the hour of his destruction.
Mourning over, the corpse was made to go through a form of ceremony, resembling that which is performed during pregnancy with the first child.
The band, on arrival, took up a position close to the mourning women.
The mourning ceasing after a time, the corpse was placed inside the hut, and followed by the near relatives, who there continued to weep over it.
The customary mourning in couples concluded, the corpse, clad in four cloths, was carried on the stretcher to a clear space in the neighbouring shola, and placed by the side of the funeral pyre, which had been rapidly piled up.
The ceremony over, and the mourning suite departed, the spectators dispersed with gibes and jeering faces from the sad spot; while the Henrys, with heavy hearts, retraced their steps back towards the palace.
Scarcely had his terrified eyes been thus unexpectedly struck, when a coffin borne by six men issued from the gates, and was deposited in the waiting receptacle; while gentlemen in mourning went into the different coaches.
And then, to the startled and bewildered mother he, whom she had been mourning all this time as dead, unfolded the following remarkable tale.
White Woman with a veil over her head answers to the Banshee, but the tradition of the Klage-weib (mourning woman) in the Luenchurger Heath (Spiels Archiv.
Tears and wailing were for women; this was the mourning of warriors.
Court mourning had recently been ordered for the Duke of Sussex, uncle to the Queen, and many black dresses were worn.
Observing that she always appeared in black, I asked one day whether she was in mourning for a near relative.
The weeks of John Brown's imprisonment were very sad ones, and the day of his death was one of general mourning in New England.
The years of mourning for my father and beloved brother being at an end, and the sister next to me being now of an age to make her debut in society, I began with her a season of visiting, dancing, and so on.
It was like she faded away, sir, and went down in a bundle, nursing her poor arms and mourning over them with those terrible, broken sobs.
Her heavy veil of mourning fell aside as she hastily rose and joined her attendants, disappearing in the crowd.
There hath been enough of mourning for the temper of this people; we must have action.
But surely 'tis a sin that they left the mourningupon the banner to-night, one should have more respect!
She touched the heavymourning folds of the Queen's garments, as she spoke.
Monbert has a quick eye and a practised hand; mourning would follow swiftly in the wake of her rejoicing, and Mademoiselle de Chateaudun might order her widow's weeds and her bridal robes at the same time.
And my heart--Oh, it is like the house of mourning where Sorrow has hushed the Children of Joy.
Some had seen him wandering about the palace at night with a candle, mourning over his loss and raging at his own folly.
If you do, my beloved, I shall hear always the sound of mourning when I think of you.
While Ishtar was suffering the torments of the infernal regions, the world of the living was wearing mourning on account of her death.
Days of sorrow and mourning alternated with these days of joy, during which the people and the magnates gave themselves up to severe fasting and acts of penitence.
I saw a tall, thin man with a beard, a sad man whom I have never seen before, mourning over the fallen long knives.
Redbird had even heard that while inmourning Owl Carver had predicted that Iron Knife would one day be killed by a man whose mother had also died giving birth to him.
He did not understand that she would rather be dead twice over than spend her life mourning Gray Cloud and married to Wolf Paw.
For the second time Lady Sellingworth was a widow; for the second time she spent the period of mourning in Paris.
Does your mourning prevent you from looking at a damned good picture?
When the mourningwas over and she returned to London she was a woman who had progressed, but whether upon an upward or a downward path who shall decide?
Arabian came into the studio and saw her in her mourning facing him.
Although she was in deep mourning and could not go about, several women had been to see her.
Her mourningprohibited her from seeking distractions.
The Bishop's lady died on the 26th of April, and on that very day Harlequin's hurt broke out again, and the poor creature went whining lugubriously about the gloomy house, as though it was mourning for its mistress.
It could not be merely to do honour to a mourning prelate who would never glance at his secretary's satin and point d'Alencon.
This caused greatmourning and lamentation on the plantation.
I was born out of wedlock, when my family were bankrupt and in mourning for an uncle who had taken his life.
She's smiling at me; but she's dressed in black; she seems to be in mourning too!
Almost at the same instant, the lady dressed in mourning came out of the adjoining house, and started down the street in the opposite direction from that which the gentleman had taken.
I will turn their mourning into gladness, and will comfort them, and will bring joy out of their wretchedness.
The pilgrims were doubtless on their way to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles: with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, all the joy of that festival would be changed to mourning and its songs to wailing.
