“His disciples and many animals gathered around the bier to mourn his passing.”

“Four corpse bearers, nasasalars, carry the body of a deceased on a bier to the Towers of Silence.”

“My beloved Elisabeta lay on the same bier where she had wept for me only four nights prior.”

“A simple roast pork loin is at home with bock beers, doppelbocks, softer pale ales, biers de garde, softer brown ales and Belgian dubbels.”

“Moreover ship strakes were apparently used as funerary biers, and animals and weapons were sacrificed.”

“Seventeen German biers are on tap, plus another 200 imports, making for lots of gemuetlichkeit, or friendly good times.”