Sentence examples for it lay in state from inspiring English sources
Into an indelible historical event, it inserts something that never happened: the coffin containing Kennedy's shattered body was closed when it lay in state.
After Lincoln was assassinated in April 14 , 1865 Morand followed his body to New York, where it lay in state at City Hall.
His body was carried to Faneuil Hall, where it lay in state until March 8, when all five victims were buried in a common grave.
Over 100,000 people queued to see Mr Agnelli's body as it lay in state at Fiat's head office before being applauded through crowded streets on its way to the funeral in Turin Cathedral.
O'Mahony died in poverty, and his body was returned to Dublin, where it lay in state in the Mechanics Institutee after Paul Cardinal Cullen, archbishop of Dublin, an anti-Fenian, refused it admission to the procathedral; his funeral procession, to Glasnevin Cemetery on March 4, 1877, drew a crowd of more than 70,000 nationalists of all sorts.
No one claimed the body of David Felix for 21 days; instead, it lay in state at the Office of the Medical Examiner, the blackened and seared edges of the gunpowder's stippling forming a dark halo on his ebony skin until his grief-stricken parents arrived from Haiti to identify the body of their oldest son.
The pomp surrounding a traditional funeral, the arcane rules governing the style of drape that covers the coffin, the ornaments which may be displayed on it, even the uniforms of the attendants who wait with the corpse while it lies in state, are all designed to heighten and draw out this peculiar emotion.
For many of the Hawaiians who filed past her coffin as it lay in the state capitol earlier this month, Ms Mink embodied the best of the state's Democratic tradition.That tradition is now being tested, for the opinion polls give a small lead in the governor's race to the Republican.
Congress had ordered Abraham Lincoln's catafalque brought to the Court, and on it the casket of Thurgood Marshall lay in state.
For five days after Mrs. Aquino, 76, died of cancer early Saturday, crowds of mourners converged on her coffin as it passed through the streets and lay in state at Manila Cathedral.
