The funeral services were held on the 20th of February, and his obsequies were the largest Washington had ever seen, except those of the late Abraham Lincoln. ❋ George Washington Williams (N/A)
The poor gentleman was honorably interred; but the greatest triumph in his obsequies was the tears and cries of that poor demoiselle, who as openly displayed her feelings after his death as she had concealed them during his life, as if she would make amends for the wrong she had done him. ❋ Unknown (1855)
Even as Mr Cameron was before the cameras expressing the ritual obsequies for a fallen colleague, other Tories were privately voluble that Dr Fox was "always a maverick", "a chancer", "committed the most dreadful errors of personal and political judgment" – in other words, the only conclusion we should draw from this affair is that Dr Fox was the author of his own demise. ❋ Unknown (2011)
One of the reasons Death of a President seemed so questionable was that real footage was redeployed with what might be taken as gloating coldness: news clips of the first lady and Dick Cheney in dark clothes at the funerals of Presidents Reagan and Ford was presented as their attendance at the state obsequies of Bush. ❋ Mark Lawson (2010)
Supposing you never studied a contrary theory called "the risky shift", and can jettison all thoughts of tulip mania and the South Sea Bubble, not forgetting more recent memories of Princess Diana's obsequies, online bullying, Jedward and destructive Twitter mobs, Surowiecki's is an appealing proposal, nicely demonstrated by new pressure groups such as 38 Degrees, and indeed by Twitter, when the crowd is being witty, kind and constructive. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Charles Dickens did not have a public funeral, but by giving Alfred one, I hope to convey to the reader how enormously famous (and almost worshipped) he was when he died; the scenes of public grief reflecting, perhaps, Princess Diana's modern-day obsequies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Despite the death of the fiscal, and the subsequent formalities of obsequies and burial, the Duke's stag hunt was delayed by no more than a week. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Near her lay the other monks who had died, awaiting the moment—as prescribed by the traditional obsequies—when their bodies could be burned. ❋ Nick Lake (2010)
With so many dead on the mountain, and the days already warming as spring began to turn to summer, the abbot could not risk waiting even a single day to begin the obsequies. ❋ Nick Lake (2010)
Tarmey admits in his recently published memoirs, Jack Duckworth and Me, that he cried real tears while filming Vera's funeral after Dawn's departure and the same will surely have been true of his character's obsequies. ❋ Mark Lawson (2010)
Newspapers "obsessed over the minutiae of the funeral obsequies," writes Mr. Swanson. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bart had not been given the obsequies of an officer. ❋ Gwyn Cready (2010)
What Levin has written is a diverting meta-thriller implying he is delivering the final obsequies over a once-flourishing but exhausted genre. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The great obsequies were performed on April 22 and 23. ❋ Lu (2009)
The dedication at the front of the 1605 print clearly states that he, Victoria, composed this music for “the obsequies of your most revered mother”. ❋ Lu (2009)
Sometime around 1545, a singer of the French royal chapel, Pernot Vermont died in 1558, requested that his obsequies should include a performance of Prioris's Missa de mortuis. ❋ Lu (2009)
