pall-bearers

After the symphony of words ended, after the pall-bearers rolled the casket up the aisle, we rose from our seats and silently exited the synagogue -- uplifted and humbled by Jeff's example, still mesmerized by our loss but resolved to try to honor his ideals.

Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow Andrew S. Doctoroff 2012

After the symphony of words ended, after the pall-bearers rolled the casket up the aisle, we rose from our seats and silently exited the synagogue -- uplifted and humbled by Jeff's example, still mesmerized by our loss but resolved to try to honor his ideals.

Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow Andrew S. Doctoroff 2012

Danny and I looked at each other from across the room (I was sitting with the pall-bearers, Danny was sitting with my Mom and Dad), I raised an eyebrow.

Mournful Remembrance | clusterflock 2009

These dreary folk, echoes of the dead past and importunate and self-elected pall-bearers for the present and future, proxy-livers of life and vicarious sensualists that they are in a eunuch sort of way, insist, since their own selves, environments, and narrow agitations of the quick are mediocre and commonplace, that no man or woman can rise above the mediocre and commonplace.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

After the symphony of words ended, after the pall-bearers rolled the casket up the aisle, we rose from our seats and silently exited the synagogue -- uplifted and humbled by Jeff's example, still mesmerized by our loss but resolved to try to honor his ideals.

Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow Andrew S. Doctoroff 2012

Now your pall-bearers shall have to shovel us out of here.

Vignette: A Writing Exercise « Write Anything 2009

After the symphony of words ended, after the pall-bearers rolled the casket up the aisle, we rose from our seats and silently exited the synagogue -- uplifted and humbled by Jeff's example, still mesmerized by our loss but resolved to try to honor his ideals.

Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow Andrew S. Doctoroff 2012

I even had the pall-bearers dropping the coffin and pointing and rolling about laughing last week.

MIND MELD: The Funniest Writers in the History of SF/F 2009

The loading ramp then lowered onto ground level with the coffin and the seven pall-bearers carried the body past the saluting officers, into the waiting van.

Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Every Day Is Memorial Day at Dover 2010

She remembered the autumn colours in the cemetery and the frozen puddles on the gravel path leading to the grave, the crackling sound as the thin film of ice broke under the feet of the pall-bearers.

'Hypothermia' 2010