There was a new made grave, and by its side the bier was rested.    From LearnThat.org.  [Walt Whitman]

We followed the bier to the graveyard.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

'Friend,' whispered he, 'for charity conduct us to some safe place where we may withdraw this bier from the sacrilegious eye of curiosity.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

The form on the bier was a little fuzzy, as though surrounded by heat shimmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Sleeps]

The bier was a shallow wooden tray, carried upon a light and weak wooden frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East] Reference

Atop the bier was a tall throne of intricately carved ivory, in which sat a man robed in scarlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

Following the bier was the cross-bearer, holding the emblem so high it was half lost in the shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

A funeral procession approaches in the distance, and on the bier is the form of the saintly Elizabeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

Confusion and fear in his heart, he moved forward reluctantly and saw that the face on the bier was his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

But yonder black-robed mourners who followed the bier were her parents, her brothers and sisters, her nearest relatives, the members of the Council, and the family servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

His bier is a triumphal car —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muffled Drum] Reference

I lak a bier buzzzz n teh mornink.    From Wordnik.com.  [we herd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

The bier was often decked with leaves and flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

'The commanding officer advanced towards the bier' 360.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

The master of them, who knew the most, has approached the bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

The immense golden candelabra were to me the lights round a bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

She has laid her back on the bier and covered her beneath the pall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

The town bier stood in front of the house, and the pall was over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

They placed the bier on their shoulders, and the procession followed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

"Thou little foolish one," she said, and laughed, pushing me back upon the bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference

The head and bier of the dead were also crowned with fresh wreaths of myrtle and ivy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

An hour after sundown they carried the bier on which her coffin rested into the chapel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

Jackie's composure broke at the candlelit bier; she wept, and mother Rose comforted her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference

The present Grand Signior's favourite sultana, and her son, also repose upon the same bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

He made a short prayer, and then the coffin was placed on the bier and covered with the pall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

At this moment a procession descends from the Wartburg, chanting a funeral song over an open bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Before thy ax and tools wert laid away thou didst make many things, one day a cradle -- the next a bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of the King] Reference

If in that season of the year, autumn leaves hid the bier, and formed the covering and pillow of her narrow bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

Again, there is the familiar ballad about a girl who pretends to be dead, that she may be borne on a bier to meet her lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Then they laid her upon a bier, and all seven placed themselves around it, and wept and wept for three days without ceasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference

Before the prayers began, Charles and Philip each bent down and placed bouquets of white lillies at the foot of Diana's bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day England Cried] Reference

Let a bell be rung before us, to warn all in the streets to stand away; and we will carry a vessel of strong incense before the bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference

After the crucifixion, the body was removed from the cross, and carried upon a bier, through the different streets in solemn procession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

The bier is a rude framework of poles bound with ropes of hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference