They felt it without understanding what it meant; one ether person in the house experienced the same influence, but in his case it led to reflection.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing
The nearest relations make it a point of sitting in the death chamber, and before the coffin is nailed up, almost everybody present in the house enters the room to see the body and look on it with a sigh.
— from Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales by Jonathan Ceredig Davies
They gazed at every person in the house except the preacher, and did everything but worship.
— from The Puddleford Papers; Or, Humors of the West by Henry Hiram Riley
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