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  • Michael Holtzapfel was buried and the book thief read to the bereaved.†  (source)
  • In the corner of a sitting room in her house, Shizuka would keep a small shrine to Mutsuhiro, a tradition among bereaved Japanese families.†  (source)
  • WINTER WAS LONG THAT YEAR, the dreariness punctuated only by my weekly counseling sessions and the odd sense of loss, almost bereavement, I felt whenever I finished one TV series and had to find another.†  (source)
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  • The first one is the bereaved, the mother; she carries a small black jar.†  (source)
  • It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation.†  (source)
  • I judged him to be a bachelor from the frayed condition of his linen, and he appeared to have sustained a good many bereavements; for he wore at least four mourning rings, besides a brooch representing a lady and a weeping willow at a tomb with an urn on it.†  (source)
  • The first three phone numbers on the list had produced terrifying results—a hysterical widow, a detective working late at a murder scene, and a somber priest consoling a bereaved family.†  (source)
  • Couldn't take a bereavement day off work.†  (source)
  • But if the guy has any questions, and he may, what I'd like to do is refer him to you—give him your number, eldest son, mother recently bereaved, blah blah blah —†  (source)
  • The tone of their protests had been Annie's exactly, not bereavement but outrage.†  (source)
  • When the rector said, " 'Give courage to those who are bereaved,' " I was already dreading how loud Owen's voice would be during the final hymn; I knew it was one he liked.†  (source)
  • It was customary for a home that had suffered a bereavement to be filled with relatives and well-wishers for many days, but this practice was presently circumscribed by the dangers involved in making a journey in the city, and while people did come to see Saeed's father and Saeed, most came furtively, and could not stay long.†  (source)
  • Enoch's devotion to the new faith had seemed so much greater than Mr. Brown's that the villagers called him the outsider who wept louder than the bereaved.†  (source)
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