bier

• There may be fifty or sixty of these dents to one inch, for weaving very fine linen; usually there are about twenty, which gives a "bier"--a counting out of forty warp-threads to each inch. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her then_. —  Olive A Novel
• Death to the miserable cowards A crowd numbered by hundreds gathered around the bier, and the carriers had trouble to reach the palace gate Luciola had dragged herself with difficulty to the staircase, but there she swooned away, and while Spero bedewed her beautiful pale face with his tears, he appealingly whispered to his father Papa, you have already aided so many people, aid her too Monte-Cristo started. —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
• The great mahogany bed itself was almost like a bier, with its dark velvet hangings, and dusty plumes. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
• In the midst of the lists they placed a bier_.--By its side stood the accuser and the accused; one at the head and the other at the foot of the bier, and leaned there for some time in profound silence, before they began the combat The manners of the age are faithfully painted in the ancient Fabliaux. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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