the dear departed

The preacher said, "Now, does anyone have anything they want to say in memory of the dear departed?"

If the dear departed was in a warm room, try keeping the next one on the chilly side.

Now, alas, the family is mostly the dear departed, but I keep going back for pleasure.

Not to the dear departed dead poets, I hope.

"Take the dear departed Sister with you, would you please?"

A lying-in-state, I tell you, lacking only the body of the dear departed.

In three minutes, you'll be among the dear departed."

"Are you maintaining my anonymity with the dear departed?"

Every sniff would remind the offspring most poignantly of the dear departed.

One of them had already bagged an addition to the dinner pot not that the dear departed looked too edible.

And, finally, there was the dear departed.

Toward the end of the title story, a mysterious maroon notebook emerges that belonged to the dear departed.

"Last time we met, you were using ventriloquism and funny voices to fake messages from the dear departed.

"You'll get the same response as I have just delivered to the dear departed Lorca."

More commonly, the portrait of someone grieving revealed the shadowy existence of the dear departed.

"Take Dow Jones," he says, in a sepulchral tone reserved for the dear departed.

Farewell to the Dear Departed 2.

Farewell to the Dear Departed The funeral was marked with appropriate solemnity.

An everlasting monument to the dear departed!"

"One of the dear departed."

You opened the door, said "Bonjour, madame," listened to her praise of the dear departed as she pointed to him, and took your mail.

I expect those cries about a monster, of which our visitor has spoken, were nocturnal reminiscences of the dear departed.

She came to see me two or three times a month, whenever the dear departed Mr. Karmann sent her a message from beyond.

"Rumpole and the Dear Departed"

The Dear Departed (1980)