Then the chiefs sat down to the funeral banquet and after that retired to rest.

In a grim scene, she presides over a funeral banquet for her husband.

Tearsong's funeral banquet was the most elaborate to be given in the memory of the Que-shu.

At very large occasions, such as wedding or funeral banquets, the tamada is chosen in advance by the family.

Of course, no songs and dances accepted at "khelehi" (funeral banquets).

It opens with his funeral banquet.

The feast held in Qualinost reminded Goldmoon of her mother's funeral banquet.

Some of the larger tombs have vestibules lined with stone benches for funeral banquets and several retain the carved family emblems.

One of the surviving fragments is quoted by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae: he chose it because it describes a funeral banquet.

In a particularly grim scene from a novel scarcely lacking in them, the distraught Katerina Ivanovna presides over a funeral banquet for her husband.

The most important discoveries were made near the Roman roads at the Tomb of Servilia: a columbarium and three large triclinia for the funeral banquets.

This led to archaeologists speculating that the Tylos civilisation practiced funeral banquets , which involved offering food and drink to the deceased and burying human and animal bones inside the tomb.

On the left is a triclinium, a funeral banquet hall where friends and family gathered on stone couches covered with cushions, both at the time of burial and also on future commemorative visits.

What began then had no name, but afterward we would refer to it as a funeral banquet or, more precisely, its Anglo-Saxon or Irish variant: a wake - a ritual watch held over a corpse.

Warriors of the Viceregal guard brought in the first course of food for the funeral banquet: livezianya, closely bound and with tape over their muzzles, the delicious scent of their fear filling the feasting hall.

When he found his end approaching he gave his last counsels to his family, and ordering the funeral banquet to be prepared, he invited to it the chiefs of Onondaga, and sang his death song.

In a high-profile case on Oct. 21 in this mountainous region of Hubei Province in central China, officials say a woman killed 10 guests at her husband's funeral banquet by sprinkling poison on the food.

In Against Nature (À rebours) the protagonist, Jean Des Esseintes serves kvass, along with porter and stout, for a funeral banquet "in memory of the host's virility, lately but only temporarily deceased."

By a strange contradiction, Elizabeth, who, having punished the living woman as a criminal, had just treated the dead woman as a queen, had also wished that the honours of the funeral banquet should be for the servants, so long forgotten by her.

All around the castle was a scene of busy commotion; for such funeral banquets were times of general and profuse hospitality, which not only every one who could claim the most distant connexion with the deceased, but all passengers whatsoever, were invited to partake.

A geomancer had to be consulted on where to bury the dead, caterers were hired to furnish the funeral banquet, and there was always the purchase of the coffin, which was burned along with paper images of horses, carriages, and servants in order for them to accompany the deceased into the next life.