Bier

(noun.) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial.

(noun.) a coffin along with its stand; 'we followed the bier to the graveyard'.

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• I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• So, with hushed steps and in silence, we placed the dead on a bier of ice, and then, departing, stood on the rocky platform beside the river springs. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Many of his vassals had assembled at the news of his death, and followed the bier with all the external marks, at least, of dejection and sorrow. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• They brought a hand-bier, and laid him on it, and covered him with a flag, and took him up and bore him on towards the houses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But when they set the bier down on the threshold, they looked at one another, and at me, and whispered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Rather a bier for a bed, the grave for a home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Every where I turn I see the same figure--her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There was nothing whatever in this dim marble prison but five more of these biers. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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