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  • Marko Ramius watched the coffin roll into the cremation chamber to the somber strain of a classical requiem, wishing that he could pray for Natalia's soul, hoping that Grandmother Hilda had been right, that there was something beyond the steel door and mass of flame.†   (source)
  • He passed houses, a small creek, and eventually found his way to Requiem Ravine, where the cops had found the body of Mr. Craig, Vlad's English teacher.†   (source)
  • It began the afternoon of Ben's death and came down day and night for an entire week, so Brewster Place wasn't able to congregate around the wall and keep up a requiem of the whys and hows of his dying.†   (source)
  • Requiem aeternam Bona eis.†   (source)
  • The Reverend DeWitt's requiem at the cemetery was a capsulated version of what he had told us at the mortuary.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.†   (source)
  • Mom drove me directly from school to the bookstore attached to the mall, where I purchased both Midnight Dawns and Requiem for Mayhem, the first two sequels to The Price of Dawn, and then I walked over to the huge food court and bought a Diet Coke.†   (source)
  • REQUIEM.†   (source)
  • But she was conscious of some religious ceremony as an assemblage of Jews unveiled a monument commemorating their massacre and their martyrdom and the sound of a tenor voice keened its Hebrew requiem over the desolate gray scene like an angel with a dagger through its heart.†   (source)
  • "Having a Requiem doesn't mean you go to heaven necessarily."†   (source)
  • Whisk, Passion; whisk, Requiem; whisk, Symphony; whisk … "Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?" enquired the Assistant Predestinator.†   (source)
  • One of her priestly friends, by the way, who had gone to the Little Master, might be willing to say a Requiem Mass against anybody you wanted to dispose of—and, when he came to the "Requim aeternum dona ei, Domine," he would mean it, although the man was alive.†   (source)
  • We thought he might, but no. "They've closed the chapel at Brideshead, Bridey and the Bishop; mummy's Requiem was the last mass said there.†   (source)
  • "Well, I remember when Alphonse de Grenet died, Madame de Grenet had a priest hidden outside the door—he couldn't bear the sight of a priest—and brought him in before the body was cold; she told me herself, and they had a full Requiem for him, and I went to it."†   (source)
  • And I should be sorry to have to dedicate my Requiem Mass to you!†   (source)
  • She must choose, as he said, between the wedding mass and the requiem.†   (source)
  • Who was 'the other one,' the one whose requiem we now heard sung?†   (source)
  • Talking of death, I MUST SING HIS REQUIEM!†   (source)
  • If the poor abbe had not been in such a hurry, he might have had his requiem.†   (source)
  • The grave voice began again:— "Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine."†   (source)
  • She copied and arranged this from Mozart's Requiem."†   (source)
  • The reading was begun by Father Iosif immediately after the requiem service.†   (source)
  • It is simply my business to say, as Leonora's people say: "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Do mine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.†   (source)
  • The cardinal, like an archangel in cope and mitre, sprinkled the holy water; the organ broke into sound; the choir began to sing the Requiem Eternam.†   (source)
  • As the ship under light airs passed on, leaving the burial-spot astern, they still kept circling it low down with the moving shadow of their outstretched wings and the croaked requiem of their cries.†   (source)
  • Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine.†   (source)
  • Requiem aeternam.†   (source)
  • The wedding mass or the requiem mass!†   (source)
  • The Persian remembered the requiem mass which he had heard from behind the wall of the torture-chamber, and had no doubt concerning the crime and the criminal.†   (source)
  • And I found it more or less appropriate that the French word for shark, requin, has its linguistic roots in the word requiem.†   (source)
  • He suddenly took a thousand roubles to our monastery to pay for requiems for the soul of his wife; but not for the second, Alyosha's mother, the "crazy woman," but for the first, Adelaida Ivanovna, who used to thrash him.†   (source)
  • The Romish mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam" (eternal rest), whence REQUIEM denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.†   (source)
  • But whether the sorrow was too vast to be embodied in music, or music too ethereal to uplift a mortal woe, he soon discovered that the Requiem was beyond him just at present.†   (source)
  • It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.†   (source)
  • And while the friends of thy father—while each true Saxon heart, as it breathed a requiem for his soul, and those of his valiant sons, forgot not in their prayers the murdered Ulrica—while all mourned and honoured the dead, thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration—lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest—who shed the blood of infancy, rather than a male of the noble house of Torquil Wolfganger should survive—with him hast thou lived to…†   (source)
  • I had a requiem service.†   (source)
  • Voice and instrument seemed both living, and threw out with vivid sympathy those strains which the ethereal Mozart first conceived as his own dying requiem.†   (source)
  • They had come for the requiem service.†   (source)
  • As Goethe, when he had a joy or a grief, put it into a song, so Laurie resolved to embalm his love sorrow in music, and to compose a Requiem which should harrow up Jo's soul and melt the heart of every hearer.†   (source)
  • From his childhood the thought of death and the presence of death had something oppressive and mysteriously awful; and it was long since he had heard the requiem service.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the time was passing; the monastery services and the requiems for the dead followed in their due course.†   (source)
  • And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion.†   (source)
  • And on the morn the Bishop did his mass of Requiem, and after, the Bishop and all the nine knights put Sir Launcelot in the same horse bier that Queen Guenever was laid in to-fore that she was buried.†   (source)
  • And on the morn all the priests and clerks that might be gotten in the country were there, and sang mass of Requiem; and there offered first Sir Launcelot, and he offered an hundred pound; and then the seven kings offered forty pound apiece; and also there was a thousand knights, and each of them offered a pound; and the offering dured from morn till night, and Sir Launcelot lay two nights on his tomb in prayers and weeping.†   (source)
  • REQUIEM CHARLEY: It's getting dark, Linda.†   (source)
  • Pallbearers, gold reins, requiem mass, firing a volley.†   (source)
  • Requiem mass.†   (source)
  • And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion.†   (source)
  • No more be done; We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.†   (source)
  • And on the morn the Bishop did his mass of Requiem, and after, the Bishop and all the nine knights put Sir Launcelot in the same horse bier that Queen Guenever was laid in to-fore that she was buried.†   (source)
  • And on the morn all the priests and clerks that might be gotten in the country were there, and sang mass of Requiem; and there offered first Sir Launcelot, and he offered an hundred pound; and then the seven kings offered forty pound apiece; and also there was a thousand knights, and each of them offered a pound; and the offering dured from morn till night, and Sir Launcelot lay two nights on his tomb in prayers and weeping.†   (source)
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