They spoke in whispers, ate in silence, recited the rosary three times a day, and even clavichord practice during the heat of siesta time had a funereal echo.
There was something funereal in the whole affair, and Mr. Casaubon seemed to be the officiating clergyman, about whom it would be indecent to make remarks.
" I am not here for Cersei" . A drum began to beat behind them, slow, measured, funereal. Dead, it seemed to say, dead, dead. " I came to make my farewells. He was my father" .
She was the best-looking woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet." " You know cousin Henry asked her to please you: he persuaded cousin Louisa.
Old Featherstone no sooner caught sight of these funereal figures appearing in spite of his orders than rage came to strengthen him more successfully than the cordial.