Elysées, and some of the "catafalques" erected to the memory of the heroes of July, where the students and others, not connected personally with the victims, and not having in the least profited by their deaths, come and weep; but the grief shown on the first day is quite as absurd and fictitious as the joy exhibited on the last. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
We are present among the 1 million grieving Americans who viewed the body in its casket on its catafalques at the major stops on the railroad line. ❋ John C. Waugh (2010)
Champs Elysées, and some of the “catafalques” erected to the memory of the heroes of July, where the students and others, not connected personally with the victims, and not having in the least profited by their deaths, come and weep; but the grief shown on the first day is quite as absurd and fictitious as the joy exhibited on the last. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There were fifteen hearses, with palls varying in expensiveness; there were actually two catafalques. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As far as I could learn here, these tombs are also covered with precious stuffs, and in the shape of catafalques, like that of Ibrahim in the great mosque of Mekka. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The containers were the size of torpedoes and sat like coffins upon catafalques. ❋ Charlotte Douglas (2002)
The bodies lay at the head of the hall, atop three wooden catafalques smothered in smoke from nearby censers. ❋ Pierson, Chris (2001)
The procession stopped in front of the White House, and the four coffins were taken by their special details and placed on four black catafalques in the East Room. ❋ Vince Flynn (1997)
Three catafalques followed, the first a most imposing bier. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
These royal catafalques are costly and magnificent, being covered with plates of gold, while the silks and perfumes consumed with a single body cost thousands of dollars. ❋ Various (N/A)
There without a word I left her among the shattered catafalques, for I was weary; but having gone some distance, turned back, thinking that I might take some more raisins from the bag; and after getting them, said to her, shaking her little hand where she sat under the roof-shadow on a stone: ❋ Unknown (1906)
Her apartments are a perfect series of catafalques, and seem to have been upholstered by an undertaker. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)
Mourners kneeling, their hand placed on their blue hair in token of grief, turned towards the catafalques, while shaven priests, leopard-skin on shoulder, burned perfumes in a spatula terminating in a hand bearing a cup under the nose of the godlike dead. ❋ Th��ophile Gautier (1841)
So saying, he led St. Aldenheim by a little circuit of passages to a doorway, through which they passed into a hall of vast proportions; to judge by the catafalques, and mural monuments, scattered at intervals along the vast expanse of its walls, this seemed to be the ante-chapel of St. Agnes. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
50 Burckhardt, however, must be in error when he says “The tombs are also covered with precious stuffs, and in the shape of catafalques, like that of Ibrahim in the great Mosque of Meccah.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Indeed, the "hygienic houses" of to-day, with their bare walls, and white washable furniture, look like hospitals; while the schools seem veritable tombs, with their desks ranged in rows like black catafalques -- black, merely because they have to be of the same color as ink to hide the stains which are looked upon as a necessity, just as certain sins and certain crimes are still considered to be inevitable in the world; the alternative of avoiding them has never occurred to any one. ❋ Maria Montessori (1911)
