A beautiful invitation follows to those, who are sometimes irreverent bearers: "Come then, pure hands, and bear the head That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep, And come, whatever loves to weep, And hear the ritual of the dead."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
"No," I answered, smiling in spite of myself to think what strange forms the bearers of romance could take.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
When the queen perceived such wisdom, and saw the house which he had built, and the food on his table, and his counsellors, and his cup-bearers, and servants, and the burnt sacrifice which he offered in the house of Jehovah, she sent him 120 Kikkars of gold, and such an amount of spices as never afterwards came to Jerusalem.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker