It had rained during the night and the coffin bearers walked with care, their shoes caking with mud.

She recognised him as one of the coffin bearers, the tall, bony, grey-haired one who had been carrying Lisa's.

The music swelled, and the coffin bearers moved into the aisle, to be met halfway to the altar by clergymen bearing incense.

There are landings to assist coffin bearers on their journey to the graveyard on the cliff top.

Usually walking directly behind the coffin bearers in the procession, they surround the grave from three sides at the graveyard.

The four bearers lift my palanquin (here it can also mean the four coffin bearers).

He was a coffin bearer at Petrovic's funeral in 1993 and has been active in commemorating his memory.

It was one of the coffin bearers.

The coffin bearers, teen-agers and young men, shook with grief, and substitutes rushed to shoulder their burden.

Six uniformed men were hastily pressed into service as coffin bearers.