But the blow was deadened by no such calculation, and seldom have obsequies so pompous been accompanied by grief as universal.
Federigo Fregoso, along with the funeral oration pronounced at hisobsequies by his preceptor Odasio.
The solemn obsequies befitting sovereign personages, including six hundred masses, were performed on the 2nd of May in the cathedral, which was hung and carpeted with black, and illuminated with five hundred wax-lights.
We plants Spellin' Book Ben on Boot Hill as per that sufferer's last request, an' Red Dog graces the obsequies to a man.
His body was conveyed to Rome to be buried, and the funeral obsequies were performed with great magnificence: he was likewise a pontiff.
Cato, being poor, celebrated the funeral obsequies of his son, who died in the office of praetor, at a very small expense.
The first care of the young bird as soon as fledged and able to trust to his wings is to perform the obsequies of his father.
When his obsequies were celebrated, Evadne cast herself on his funeral pile and perished.
Every year, at the anniversary of his death, they return and celebrate his obsequies in like manner.
And in this manner were theobsequies of Pompey performed.
Of such sort was the vigil kept by this solemn statue, so dignified in grief and sweet in death, at the ignoble obsequies of him who, occupying the loftiest throne of Christendom, incarnated the least erected spirit of his age.
When the academicians decreed a catafalque for Michelangelo's solemn obsequies in S.
The obsequies were at the discretion of the commonest valets, all the rest of the house having suddenly deserted.
The obsequies were delayed until the 12th of February.
On Thursday, the 28th of November, the solemn obsequies were again performed, this time at Notre Dame, and with the usual ceremonies.
On Friday, the 25th of October, his solemn obsequies took place at Saint- Denis in a confusion, as to rank and precedence, without example.
Her death occurred on April 18, from heart disease, when she was only forty-five, and her funeral obsequies were as splendid as her services demanded.
Wenti, as it is most convenient to call the new emperor, felt obliged to send formal invitations to his uncles to attend the obsequies of their father.
Thus closed the life and obsequies of one of the greatest men to whom the British Isles had ever given birth.
His obsequies were celebrated with great magnificence in the ancient Moorish capital, under the superintendence of the count of Tendilla, the son and successor of Gonsalvo's old friend, the late governor of Granada.
And it was so observed by the Dukes of Ormond and Richmond, the Earls of Manchester and Sandwich, at the Obsequies of George Monk Duke of Albemarle.
Thereafter for three days and three nights the obsequies of the saint were celebrated with all due and fitting rites.
King and those of his Queen, Marie Antoinette, were transferred to the Church of Saint-Denis, where their solemn obsequies were celebrated.
The former entrance, on the steps of which stand the Heralds-at-Arms at the obsequies of the kings, has been suppressed.
Then follows a description of theobsequies of the dead (xi.
The whole committee had attended the obsequies of Crutch and acted as pall-bearers.
We merely give a few extracts: "Once upon a time there was a person named Scholasticus, who suffered by death the loss of his child, to whose obsequies came the people in great throngs.
At length, however, Henry V, under pressure from his princes and nobles, gave orders that his fathers remains be conveyed to Speyer and there interred in the royal vault with such honours as befitted the obsequies of a monarch.
Atlis last request was that his obsequies should be such as were fitting for a king, and to ensure that he had proper funeral rites Gudrun set fire to his castle and burnt his body together with those of his dead retainers.
On the fifteenth day the embalming should be completely terminated; the mummy should be dry and light; the relatives send for it and establish the most magnificent obsequiesin their power.
The funeral obsequies were characterised with a splendour and magnificence that befitted the semi-regal state he had maintained when living.
While these obsequies were being performed at Washington, similar ceremonies were observed in every part of the country.
Here very extensive preparations for funeral obsequies had been made by the thousands who had known him in his life, and other thousands who had learned to love him and now mourned his death.
His obsequies were celebrated with the military pomp suited to his station.
There is no reason to doubt that the boy witnessed the obsequies of the emperor.
Nothing remained to make your obsequies complete, but the tears of her who was so dear to you whilst you were living; and which, that you should not now want, heaven put it into the mind of my relentless father to send you to me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obsequies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: burial; ceremony; dirge; eulogy; funeral; requiem; wake
