Biers definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Medallions above the doors of sacristy and chancel, stately figures reared aloft beneath gigantic canopies, men and women slumbering with folded hands upon their marble biers--we read in all those sculptured forms a strange record of human restlessness resolved into the quiet of the tomb.

—New Italian sketches

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It was the practice in those days to carry the bodies of the dead on open biers, with uncovered faces, to their burial. — What I Remember, Volume 2
It was clogged with carts and wagons and men trudging along on foot, some of them carrying biers or helping or dragging along a comrade. — SLIGHTLY TEMPTED
There must be thousands of wounded on all those carts and biers, she decided averting her face from the road to her left. — SLIGHTLY TEMPTED
Artwork used to decorate funeral biers, called kkoktu, is on display at Wake Forest's Museum of Anthropology in the exhibit Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Jourey to the Other World. — Yes Weekly
Medallions above the doors of sacristy and chancel, stately figures reared aloft beneath gigantic canopies, men and women slumbering with folded hands upon their marble biers--we read in all those sculptured forms a strange record of human restlessness resolved into the quiet of the tomb. — New Italian sketches