1
All boys are splendid professional mourners anyway, and John was by no means an exception to the rule.
2
Teeming crowds of professional mourners and curious onlookers would not pass by to lay flowers upon his bier.
3
They were filled with professional mourners, weeping and beating on their breasts, and wailing in high, ghostly moans.
4
They dispensed with professional mourners.
5
They bought jade cremation boxes, elaborate floral wreaths, catered services, professional mourners -testaments to individual wealth among widespread poverty.
6
This crying is done almost wholly by women, who gather in large numbers on such occasions, and among them a few who are professional mourners.
7
The professional mourners then arrive, and night or day is made hideous with their cries, while the "washers of the dead" proceed with their work.