Word: bierring
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...high catafalque, flanked by guardsmen in gleaming cuirasses and Tudor-clad Beefeaters from the Tower of London. On the third night of the watch, majestic Queen Mary came with her eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, to stand stiff and erect for 20 minutes before her son's bier. Early the next evening, Queen Elizabeth, her granddaughter, slipped in with Philip and Princess Margaret. The widowed Queen came a few hours later, and remained for 20 minutes...
...nearby, Elizabeth greeted her mother and sister quietly, kissed her children and then went to the second-floor room where her father's body lay. At sundown,* a cortege of George's woodsmen and gamekeepers, headed by a kilted pipe-major playing a Scottish lament, wheeled the bier to the parish church, where the King's body lay in state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons.† Across the meadows and through the woods went the soft lament of the bagpipes. All that night...
Last week, the flags on all French public buildings hung at half-mast, and thousands paraded past the general's bier. But proudly, as befitted the man they honored, the French caretaker cabinet met in special session to confer on Jean de Lattre the title: Marshal of France...
Last week, when news of the crime became public, Panechates, his vicious murder unavenged, was back in his usual box in an archway outside an exhibition of Chinese art. All that could be done was to change the sign above his bier and restore to him his rightful name...
...Marriage of Figaro, despite such handicaps as the fact that some Russians had raped one of his star sopranos that afternoon. Red troops broke into a rehearsal, hauled off Krips and his orchestra, stood guard over them while they played funeral music-for nine hours-by the bier of a murdered Red general...