And there broad daylight revealed a circumstance that came as a shock to most of those who had followed the body from the church, but as an outrage to the officiating clergyman: the coffin bore no plate.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
The reason that congregations have their heads bobbing about in prayer-time is because the officiating clergyman is apt to petition in the abstract.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
After officiating at funerals, weddings, shop-windows, theatres, pawnshops, and bishops' dwellings, it could never have simply worn out, or died of old age.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates