From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
2000, (w), A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 474:
Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.