mourning-coach

The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest.

Les Miserables 2008

A mourning-coach, in which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red cap, followed.

Les Miserables 2008

And Timlins has a way, too, of letting white horses follow the hearse with the first mourning-coach, and it's very bad luck, very -- an ill omen; a prophecy of Death and the

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

As the prisoner alighted from the landau, he saw some of his friends standing near the booth; he paid his compliments to them with the grace of a well-bred man; and, smiling, asked of the sheriffs, who had preceded him in the mourning-coach, "if he was to enter the booth?"

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

The driver pulled the black Flanders beasts into a more than funeral crawl, and in the first mourning-coach I saw the tearful face of a fat woman (his mother, doubtless), a handkerchief pressed to one eye, but the other rolling vigilantly, alight with proper pride.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

'Why I wish I may only have a walking funeral, and never be buried decent with a mourning-coach and feathers, if the boy hasn't been and made a key for his own self!' cried Miggs.

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

Well, now, is that thought to come in (I was going to say, like a mourning-coach driven through a wedding procession) to kill the joys we have been seeming to receive from the former words?

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868

You guess who it was that uttered those words, and, taking the Nabob's arm, tried to pull him together, to make him hold his head as high as his own, conducted him to the carriage through the rows of stupefied people in uniform, and made him get in, exhausted and broken, like a near relation of the deceased that one hoists into a mourning-coach after the funeral.

The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868

They left her in it, the earl and Mr. Carlyle, and entered the mourning-coach to be conveyed back again to East Lynne.

East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter 1864

Curiosity, I confess, led me to direct my gondolier more than once to the narrow canal over which the Palazzo Martinelli towered; and on each occasion I was rewarded by descrying, from the depths of the miniature mourning-coach which concealed me, the faithful count, seated in his boat and waiting in patient faith, like another Ritter Toggenburg, with his eyes fixed upon the corner window; but of the lady I could see no sign.

Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) James Payn 1864