A mourning-coach, in which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red cap, followed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And Timlins has a way, too, of letting white horses follow the hearse with the first mourning-coach, and it's very bad luck, very -- an ill omen; a prophecy of Death and the ❋ Various (N/A)
As the prisoner alighted from the landau, he saw some of his friends standing near the booth; he paid his compliments to them with the grace of a well-bred man; and, smiling, asked of the sheriffs, who had preceded him in the mourning-coach, "if he was to enter the booth?" ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)
The driver pulled the black Flanders beasts into a more than funeral crawl, and in the first mourning-coach I saw the tearful face of a fat woman (his mother, doubtless), a handkerchief pressed to one eye, but the other rolling vigilantly, alight with proper pride. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
'Why I wish I may only have a walking funeral, and never be buried decent with a mourning-coach and feathers, if the boy hasn't been and made a key for his own self!' cried Miggs. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1892)
Well, now, is that thought to come in (I was going to say, like a mourning-coach driven through a wedding procession) to kill the joys we have been seeming to receive from the former words? ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
You guess who it was that uttered those words, and, taking the Nabob's arm, tried to pull him together, to make him hold his head as high as his own, conducted him to the carriage through the rows of stupefied people in uniform, and made him get in, exhausted and broken, like a near relation of the deceased that one hoists into a mourning-coach after the funeral. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
They left her in it, the earl and Mr. Carlyle, and entered the mourning-coach to be conveyed back again to East Lynne. ❋ Unknown (1864)
Curiosity, I confess, led me to direct my gondolier more than once to the narrow canal over which the Palazzo Martinelli towered; and on each occasion I was rewarded by descrying, from the depths of the miniature mourning-coach which concealed me, the faithful count, seated in his boat and waiting in patient faith, like another Ritter Toggenburg, with his eyes fixed upon the corner window; but of the lady I could see no sign. ❋ James Payn (1864)
They left her in it, the earl and Mr. Carlyle, and entered the mourning-coach, to be conveyed back again to East Lynne. ❋ Henry Wood (1850)
But the baronet and the rector were under a still stronger pressure toward cheerful communication: they were like acquaintances compelled to a long drive in a mourning-coach who having first remarked that the occasion is a melancholy one, naturally proceed to enliven it by the most miscellaneous discourse. ❋ George Eliot (1849)
He is perfectly acquainted with all the dreary courtesies to be observed in a mourning-coach; knows when to sigh, and when to hide his nose in the white handkerchief; and looks into the grave and shakes his head when the ceremony is concluded, with the sad formality of a mute. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Cousin Feenix, sitting in the mourning-coach, recognises innumerable acquaintances on the road, but takes no other notice of them, in decorum, than checking them off aloud, as they go by, for Mr Dombey's information, as 'Tom Johnson. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
