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  • It ate deeper, making muffled mewling sounds of satisfaction, snapping the billy-bum bier's spine and sucking the brief dribble of marrow.

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

  • I saw a girl come and kneel long at the bier's foot.

    Rupert of Hentzau Anthony Hope 1898

  • A priest sat on either side of the bier's head, and one of them read softly, so that I had not heard him at first.

    A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford 1884

  • Those words which first the bier's dread silence broke --

    Memories of Bethany 1856

  • And, at doubtful distance, each broken wall Frown'd black as bier's mysterious pall i

    The Isle of Palms, and Other Poems 1812

  • a little altar by the bier's head, other cowled figures crouched about it.

    The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

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