Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness.
Then with a mutual impulse the two bereaved women flung themselves into each other's arms and had a good, consoling cry, and then parted.
This could make a bereaved spouse more likely to "die of a broken heart," the researchers say.
Offer to reply to long-outstanding emails or ask your boss if she'd like you to send some flowers on her behalf to an ill or bereaved colleague.
Then she laid herself down to drink up the water of the lake, which was of course impossible for any human being to do; but the bereaved mother thought that perhaps a miracle might take place to help her.