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From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 474:
Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.
1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript:, new edition, London: W. Clarke,, published 1809, →OCLC, page 196:
There was something menacing and uncomfortable in the funereal stillness, in the muffled, subtle trickle of distant brooks, and in the crowding green peaks and black-wooded precipices that choked the narrow horizon.