mournful procession
mourning cortege

Willie, who had the deck, kept the mournful procession moving.

Bearing their cameras, they began showing up at the building over the last few weeks in a kind of mournful procession.

A long, mournful procession of privates slowly walked around the deck.

He longed to throw himself before the mournful procession and stop it, shouting, Do not kill this just man!

Without a word to Maniakes, Agathios turned away and took his place at the head of the mournful procession.

Presently the mournful procession came in sight, headed by the sergeant, who, on coming opposite to the spring, ordered a halt.

A mournful procession of ghosts reportedly sighted leaving from the inn has been linked to the plotters.

Riggin and her teammate, Helen Wainwright, six weeks older, watched the mournful procession of pine coffins.

It is certainly no time for a mournful procession to the beach with the slaves chanting a dirge and Lady Heath draped in black.

Hendrik would never forget what 1appened at Trianon when the mournful procession rode in to ImArm Annatjie of her loss.

For some time Mrs. Fowler had been suffering from an illness of long standing, and I was suddenly called to join in the mournful procession to her grave.

If after five years of Qatari funding, Paris fail in Europe again, the rest of France's domestic season will become a mournful procession to an obvious conclusion.

Then the mournful procession moved on, while the battle roared and crashed about the lone ambulance that bore the stricken idol of the Confederacy, Lee's right arm, the man without whom the South could not win.

Manufacturing, declared one pamphleteer, was the equal of war in producing "a mournful procession of the blind and lame, and of enfeebled, decrepit, asthmatic, consumptive wretches, crawling half alive upon the surface of the earth".

CHAPTER XIX THE CRIME OF TIJUCO ON THE ARRIVAL of the judge the mournful procession halted.

The oldest inhabitants recollected no period at which measles had been so prevalent, or so fatal to infant existence; and many were the mournful processions which little Oliver headed, in a hat-band reaching down to his knees, to the indescribable admiration and emotion of all the mothers in the town.

There are several such funerals over the course of Treme's first season, and Mills had a perceptive, and now poignant, insight on the role of the jazz funeral--starting with a mournful procession, ending with a celebratory "cakewalk" by the brass band--in Treme's narrative structure and in New Orleans culture: