The school would open today, he added, but it would be a day of mourning.

Today has been declared a national day of mourning.

Yesterday's blast came after a national day of mourning.

A national day of mourning, thanks.

Authorities there declared an official day of mourning yesterday.

He appealed for seven days of national mourning.

It has endured as a symbol of constancy and as a ceremonial focal point at times of national mourning and celebration.

The government declared a day of national mourning today.

The government declared 72 hours of national mourning.

When our period of national mourning begins to subside, we must ask ourselves many hard and painful questions.

Both villages declared three days of official mourning.

The official mourning had finished, but the tribute of the people went on.

Three days of official mourning have been declared in the region.

It was the second day of a year of official mourning, and a 30-day period in which public celebration of any kind has been banned.

They married secretly, before her period of official mourning was over.

Then, after the window of public mourning closed after a couple of weeks, no one said much of anything at all.

He declared three days of public mourning and appealed for international help to put out fires burning elsewhere in the country.

But some defended the family's delayed response to public mourning.

Public mourning was forbidden on 14 of them, and public fasting on all.

Orators in antiquity often delivered consolatory speeches to comfort mourners at funerals or in cases of public mourning.

On account of his death the court will wear mourning for ten days.

A widow was supposed to wear mourning for two years and was not supposed to enter society for twelve months.

After that had passed, however, he continued to wear mourning clothes.

Several were wearing mourning, but the business of selling went on as usual.

She encounters family and friends wearing mourning garb.