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But if I am to be interred in town, let only the usual burial-service be read over my corpse.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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At his request, the Rev. James Stewart read the burial-service; and the seamen kindly volunteered to mount guard for some nights at the spot where her body rests in hope.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Then Tom, who was quite full of it, told Arthur of the burial-service in the chapel, and how it had impressed him, and, he believed, all the other boys.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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Goethe studies the cemetery, the chapel, the school, the gallery, the burial-service, the estate, -- whatever is nearest.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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We placed the body in a crevice among the lava rocks, and then I said what I could remember of the burial-service.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille
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Aaron's voice it was that was heard in the burial-service that came sounding in to me, sitting close beside the bed whereon the sick one lay.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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The same may be said of that interesting burial-service which purports to have been used in the kirk at Montrose, and has been reprinted in the Miscellany of the Wodrow
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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The chaplain read the beautiful burial-service, interpreted by another to them.
Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle
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There were half-burnt brands on a broad stone, throwing out an uncertain red glimmer; there was an awning of plaited reeds reaching from bough to bough; there was an old man stretched upon the ground, and a stalwart man sitting beside him and chanting this song, as if it were a burial-service: for the old man was dead.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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The chaplain precedes the short train to the cemetery, where the final portion of the church burial-service is said, and over the newly made graves resound three sharp volleys of musketry.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various
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