Hearse
A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a casket at a funeral, wake, or graveside service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles.
Quotes
[edit]- Dido, my deare, alas! is dead,
Dead, and lyeth wrapt in lead.
O heavie herse!- Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), November Eclogue
- Underneath this sable herse
Lyes the subject of all verse.- Ben Jonson, "Epitaph on the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke" (Lansdowne MS. 777)
- On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent herses shall besiege your gates.- Alexander Pope, "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" (1717; revised 1720)
- Not even your Britain's groans can pierce
The leaden silence of your hearse.- Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Introduction to Canto I, lines 108–9
