We lived through those days and were fortunate enough not to have a burial at sea.
There is something peculiarly melancholy and impressive in a burial at sea: there is here no coffin or hearse, procession or tolling bell,—nothing that gradually prepares us for the final separation.
The death by accident of a sailor, and his strange burial at sea, served only for a brief time to arrest a happiness made complete by each other's voice and presence.
Shipwreck or burial at sea she deduced from the fact of there being no grave in the cemetery.
It was soon lowered amid appropriate music, which ended the burial at sea.
