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A "literary" explication would refer to darkness, gloom, lack of the life-giving sun, and use of words like "pall" as in "pall-bearer," a bringer of death.
To Build A Fire 2010
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A "literary" explication would refer to darkness, gloom, lack of the life-giving sun, and use of words like "pall" as in "pall-bearer," a bringer of death.
July 2010 2010
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A "literary" explication would refer to darkness, gloom, lack of the life-giving sun, and use of words like "pall" as in "pall-bearer," a bringer of death.
To Build A Fire 2010
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The procedure began with high-ranking officers and the pall-bearer details appearing, marching in formation.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Every Day Is Memorial Day at Dover 2010
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In fact, he had invited Jacques de Molay to be a pall-bearer at the funeral of the King's sister on the very day before the arrests.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Being a vet I was honored to be able to be both a pall-bearer and part of the 21 gun salute at many a military funeral and there is no words to describe the tremendous feeling that comes over you during such a funeral.
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Clemens went to Hartford to act as a pall-bearer and while there looked into the old home.
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"Deacon Jones wants me to be pall-bearer again to his wife's funeral."
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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Y 'know, when Deacon Jones's fust wife died, he asked me to be a pall-bearer, an' I did; and then his second wife died, an 'I was the same again.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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An 'then he married thet Perkins gal, and she died, and I was pall-bearer to that funeral.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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