Word: bier
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...spirit stayed on. Lying shrouded in her bier, she blinked an eye owlishly when he bent to kiss her hand. Later at his barracks she came to him, hissed the secret of the cards and disappeared. Lisa disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...
...course some well-meaning person smuggled a single bunch of violets onto the bier, last week, and they were not disturbed. But there was no music in the Embassy. And there were only, two women-Mme. Salambier, long the Ambassador's social secretary, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick. The other 400 persons who jammed to suffocation the largest room in the Embassy were all men, clad in formal mourning...
...days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last week−beneath the Emperor Napoleon's tremendous Arch of Triumph−the government suppressed and darkened every electric sign which might have profaned the scene. As thousands and tens of thousands filed past the bier, all night long the only light was that from funeral torches and the blue "Sacred Flame" which burns eternally beneath the Arch for the Unknown Soldier...
Prayed over the Grand Ducal bier, last week, the Archimandrite Theodosius of the Greek Orthodox (old Russian) Church...
...serve only to emphasise the trance in which most of these organizations repose throughout the college experience of most of the student body. Every four years the adrenalin of a presidential campaign causes faint stirrings in the Harvard body-politic which feed the hopes of those gathered about the bier and which may be the signal for rejoicing, accompanied by the beating of tomtoms. Invariably and unfortunately the patient after a few inconsequential stirrings relapses into his former harmlessness...