hearses

In their slang all with whom they came into contact were either "hearses" or "live Mollies."

The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

It became common for flowers to be thrown on to hearses and for the corteges to be applauded as they passed.

Wootton Bassett marks end of repatriation days 2011

On April 6, 30,000 New Yorkers marched--and hundreds of thousands more lined the march's route--behind empty hearses to memorialize the fire's victims.

Peter Dreier: The Fire Last Time Peter Dreier 2011

Fabrizio Costantini for The Wall Street Journal Religious leaders and funeral-home directors led a motorcade of empty hearses through crime-ridden Detroit neighborhoods last month to protest a surge in homicides.

Michigan Takes On Its Deadly Cities Matthew Dolan 2012

A motorcade of more than 20 empty hearses coursed through hard-hit neighborhoods.

Michigan Takes On Its Deadly Cities Matthew Dolan 2012

In Durban yesterday, there was a cavalcade of hearses and coffins symbolizing the death of democracy, he said.

South Africans Organizing Against Government Secrecy Bill 2010

And Sheila Jackson Lee can probably devote the money spent chasing the hearses so that she can speak at the service in more useful ways to further her poor district!

Pelosi: House won't take up Michael Jackson resolution 2009

Just a year before, I had gazed upon the drawings made by children at the camp, images of flowers and of loaves of bread carried on hearses, displayed in simple frames on a wall of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

One by one the hearses pulled up to the arched wrought-iron gateway of Charity Hospital Cemetery and dispatched their cargo.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

On upper Canal Street, lined up as far as the eye could see, sat long, black hearses, idling in the early morning sun, air conditioners humming.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010