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Sentence Examples This has been custom for as long as anyone who has ever lived upon this coffin of a ship can remember. At the beginning of the film, we see Dracula slumbering in his coffin in the belly of a ship on its way to England. The dead queen's coffin, draped in black velvet on an open car, was drawn to Westminster by six horses through streets lined with torch-bearers. The city appointed a sexton to oversee burials and set rates at six dollars for a coffin and hearse and four dollars to dig the grave. The former president was lying in state behind glass in a half-open coffin in the Caracas military academy. His coffin was carried to Rochdale Cemetery in a hearse pulled by two shire horses and it was standing room only at the chapel. The increased use of aeroplanes in warfare led to such terms as Beauey, biscuit bomber, and flying coffin. The party followed six pall-bearers into church who carried Mr Jackson's coffin, which was adorned with a large spray of white trumpet lilies. In the event though the coffin was just a standard size and the grave was much bigger than it needed to be. Two days later a relative left in the very early hours of the morning, to avoid the heat, with the coffin in the back of a buckie. In 1979, after rumours that manuscripts were buried in his family vault, his coffin was opened. Four royal cavalry troopers in ceremonial armour and helmets took up watch around the coffin with swords drawn and heads bowed. I hurried to the graveyard at the edge of town, where I found Tortola's uncle shoveling damp earth over her coffin. Which actor's resume includes stints as a coffin polisher, a milkman and a nude model for artists? Old soldiers from an array of regiments rubbed shoulders with young cadets as Bobby's coffin was carried through a guard of honour. But his family went one step further and arranged a military funeral, with the Union flag draped on his coffin and a guard of honour. The new track planned for Great Leighs is another nail in the coffin for turf horseracing in this country. Four silent sentinels still mounted guard at each corner of the coffin but the long queues of visitors had gone. Saluting the coffin after the service as pipers skirled a haunting lament, he looked devastated. The package includes services provided by the state mortuary, contracted undertakers, transport of the body, coffin and religious minister. Show More Sentences Then music swells as she exits the coffin, and pall-bearers appear from the audience. Four pall-bearers carried his coffin, which was decorated with wreaths of red and yellow roses, into the church. Naude's simple pine coffin, draped in a South African flag, was carried into the church by military pall-bearers. There were immense black plumes at each corner and a black velvet pall covered the coffin. Changes in the home market with the decline of deep coal mining put the final nails in the factory's coffin. But today the Government has put a nail in the coffin of any future growth, because this Budget is a no-growth Budget. Genetically modified crops could put a nail in the coffin of traditional and organic farming in the area. The coffin is then lowered into the grave, and soil sprinkled with holy water is tossed on top of the coffin. Because it is a last chance when you are behind, a nail in the coffin when you are ahead. But while I am cognizant of the slippery slope, I think it's silly to say that every less-than-ideal action is a nail in the coffin of liberty. She doesn't have any really obsession for writing stories anymore, the virus attack was just a nail in the coffin. At 11.30 am sharp, Big Ben chimed in the background and they began their slow march with the Queen Mother's coffin through the Great West Door. The seven that were carrying the coffin continued their slow march, past the guards and into the tomb. The cathedral was adorned with pink and white roses and Samantha's small brown coffin was covered with pink roses. They found a coffin and when they opened it up, a vampire jumped out and drank their blood. John Paul's coffin was of unpolished, uncarved timber bearing a plain crucifix on top. Until the early years of this century the traditional Russian coffin was hollowed from a single piece of wood. Meanwhile, his body lay in an open coffin bowered in flowers in the Paris house. Earlier, the marble-effect coffin, decorated with cherubs, was carried sombrely into the church by four pallbearers. Realization hit Alsan like a blow as the brigand walked over to the twins' open coffin. Show More Sentences The decomposed body of King Midas, lying in state in his coffin, might be viewed as the just reward for his over-indulgence. The coffin shattered into a million pieces while the hind legs and the wings of the hippogriff vaporized. The culprits entered, pulled open a grate to the underground chamber, but ignored Toscanini's coffin. Flanked by police motorcycle outriders, it will be followed by a newly-restored steam engine towing a Victorian trailer carrying Fred's coffin. It was shaped something like a coffin, but the inside was studded with various kinds of probes and prods and electrodes and such. In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing. Mr Celoro was buried in a silver-coloured coffin after a motorcycle cavalcade formed his funeral procession. These and other observations were nails in the geocentric coffin, making Copernicus's heliocentric universe an increasingly persuasive concept. The bearer party lifts the coffin from the catafalque in Westminster Hall and carries it to the gun carriage outside the North Door. Over the weekend his body lay in state in a silver mounted coffin on a catafalque in front of the Speaker's platform. They were driven back by police and soldiers, and the coffin was taken in and placed on a towering catafalque. What he may see as some harmless fun with floozies or a simple night clubbing becomes one more nail in the coffin of his reputation. But Barrow is keen to hammer another nail in their coffin with a convincing victory to send the fans home happy. Now, the final nail in the coffin, drastic cuts in the number of days our few remaining fishermen are allowed to fish our own waters. Though the airport authorities urge him to leave the coffin at the airport and go to a hotel, the youth insists on staying with it. Huge crowds are expected to file past the coffin, which will be guarded by a contingent of Gentlemen at Arms and Yeoman of the Guard. At 12.30 pm the bearer party will place the coffin in the hearse and five minutes later the procession will leave for Windsor. Though problems were few and far between, the coffin complex at fence 16 claimed it share of victims, as did the first water jump. The two water jumps, the coffin at number 6, and the sunken road caused the majority of the problems. The remains of the six were placed in one coffin that had been brightly painted in medieval style and bearing Latin inscriptions. Show More Sentences Behind them was a 25-piece pipe band, drummers, and a horse-drawn carriage topped with white flowers bearing the coffin. For me this traffic warden scheme is probably the final nail in the coffin as far as Burnley is concerned regards shopping. In Bulgarian tradition, the coffin of Christ stays for a week in the church and people crawl underneath for health and fertility. On the day that the body is cremated the coffin is carried to the site feet first. The cairns you see along the way were once used for supporting the coffin while the bearers took a well-earned rest. After this was done he moved to the coffin and rapped on the lid three times. The coffin was borne in by pall-bearers, marching to a rapid, but light step. The coffin was taken out of the house feet first, and the cattle and bees had to be notified of their master's demise. Around 600 mourners filled the seats and aisles of St Andrew's to watch Mr Lewis's coffin carried in by some of his friends. In a few moments they carry the coffin to the hearse, and place it inside for the trip to the cemetery. The Chinese, in common with many other cultures, like to send the corpse on its way with gifts placed in the coffin. As light drizzle began to fall on a dark London night, six pallbearers, from a firm of undertakers carefully lifted the coffin from the hearse. These services would include the hire of a hearse, coffin costs, flowers and embalming. It began look like I was the product of some genetic experiment involving something kept in 3 coffin shaped boxes. Her coffin was lovingly wrapped in muskrat, beaver and fox furs and lowered into the ground by her family. A horse-drawn hearse carried the coffin from the Bulldog pub in Walcot, which is run by Kevin's brother, Geoff. After the National Anthem, the Bearer Party places the coffin in the hearse. George VI's coffin lies beneath a black marble ledger stone, which has had the dates of the Queen Mother's birth and death added to it. Laid by Hickman in a silk-lined coffin with a hidden breathing tube, Bliss enacts phony resurrections for the gullible public. In one sequence the camera reveals a nurse fashioning a cardboard box into a dead child's makeshift coffin to be strapped to a bicycle. Show More Sentences After the double coffin they made more life-sized models of themselves, this time fast-forwarded to the end of their lives. At one end of the temple room there was a white coffin decorated with neon flashing lights and flowers. One day he discovers a coffin washed up on shore and in it the perfectly preserved body of a sailor. The neighborhood carpenter would improvise a coffin with wood that sometimes came off of somebody's wall or chicken coup. It may not have been a coincidence that, shortly after I gave up, they stopped making that brand of little coffin nails altogether. The coffin will be carried in a vintage Rolls-Royce, with a large floral tribute on the top of the car. The coffin was decked with flowers and a miniature pit bull terrier was placed on top of the casket along with a black Celtic Cross. The coffin would probably have been painted possibly with rosettes signifying prosperity in the after-life. The coffin was then carried into the yard by four men and everyone gathered round. The coffin was carried on a cannon of the Royal Horse Artillery and flanked by artillerymen in ceremonial black and red uniforms. Mehmet steals a truck and sets out on the road with Berzan's rude coffin in the back. Smokers figure the pleasure derived from smoking today is more desirable than the beneficial future health effects of giving up the coffin nails. Back in the first world war, cigarettes were known as coffin nails, even then. The centre of the room is now occupied by the quartzite sarcophagus containing the outermost coffin. Her coffin was placed next to his in a vault within the chapel, where the casket containing the ashes of Princess Margaret was also interred. Also, the rails carried black cords with black tassels hanging down, giving a sombre effect to the wooden coffin clamped to the trolley platform. I myself am not a smoker, although I do occasionally indulge in a coffin nail before, say, a nerve-wracking public appearance. The actor plays a whistleblowing ciggy exec, who suggests the coffin nails might not be as good for you as the advertising promises. They were designed that way, lengths of bronze tubing, with columnar supports butted to the sides of the coffin. Two military knights, in uniforms of scarlet swallowtail coats with black arm bands, stood in solemn vigil, guarding the Princess's coffin. Show More Sentences The horse became lame again and surgery was performed to sever the tendons in both front legs to relieve pressure on his coffin bones. Seedy Toe is a loss of lamellar attachments between the hoof wall and coffin bone at the toe. With the other executed rebels, his body was put into a mass grave with no coffin. One of Calderdale's most colourful characters got the send-off he wanted when a barge carrying his coffin ferried him to his final resting place. At the funeral they were filing past the open coffin to pay their respects. When Queequeg miraculously recovered, he carved exotic designs on his coffin and used it as a sea chest. Kevin's eyes stayed locked onto the coffin, and she kept her distance, her feet very solidly planted on the ground. In London a procession headed by two soldiers who had resigned from the army put a black cardboard coffin outside the embassy. Sofia took the bodies of her daughters, placed them in a coffin and buried them outside of town. This belief doesn't seem so surprising when you consider that coffin bearers in funeral processions carry the deceased feet first. She whispered loudly, as the coffin bearers finally manhandled the casket into the right position and dropped it on the table with a clunk. As we drove up to the grave of where Kevin was going to be buried I could see the paw bearers carrying the coffin to the gravesite. It was as if the body in the wooden coffin that was being lowered into the ground was not Scott's but someone else. The body is buried without a coffin in a grave deep enough to conceal odor and prevent abuse by animals. Both parents are serving police officers in Swindon, and Chrissy's father, 30, was among the coffin bearers. Suddenly Suzie and Matt's mother appeared beside the coffin cloaked in black sadness. There the coffin will be definitively closed with red bands, sealed with both papal and Vatican seals. Members of the club formed a guard of honour at his funeral on both days and six members acted as poll bearers carrying his coffin to the church. Twelve pall-bearers carried the Pope's coffin from inside the basilica and laid it down in the open followed by a procession of cardinals. With white and purple-robed priests heading the procession, the coffin was carried into the church. Show More Sentences The final nail in its coffin was the company's absurd decision to kowtow to the tin god of its licensing agreements. Four silent sentinels still mounted guard at each point of the coffin but the long queues of visitors had gone. In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below. At the end of the service the coffin is being carried out when it is accidentally bumped against a wall. The Coffin Cover combines a cardboard coffin interior with a removable traditional handmade wooden exterior. Two more candles on silver-gilt candlesticks stand at each end of the coffin. The poor beggar's badly burned body was supposed to be in the coffin awaiting collection. The coffin will remain open because of a Russian tradition going back to the time when people were suspicious that some of their tsars had not died peacefully. They buried us without shroud or coffin And in August ... the barley grew up out of our grave. Well, the dwarfs took pity on him and gave him the coffin, and the prince had it carried to his castle. At the wake, Maria parked the wheelchair next to the coffin, the cd player in the seat as if he were ready to roll. Worsening crime in San Miguel will drive a nail further into its coffin. The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual. They also take their turn kneeling to pray amid the flowers in front of the coffin, peering at the waxily reposed figures with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment. The coffin was draped with the Kilkenny jersey and the Galmoy jersey. So Little Snow White lay in the coffin for a long, long time but did not rot. So he asked the dwarfs to sell him the coffin with the dead Little Snow White inside. Then they wrote her name on the coffin in gold letters and added the family name. Another service, more tapers and hymns, more speeches and, in front of the coffin, white-robbed choristers chant and rhythmically shake silver rattles. Her coffin will be carried into into St. Paul's Cathedral by bearers from units particularly associated with the Falklands War. Show More Sentences And then the procession of mourners who have come to pay their respects starts moving slowly and reverentially past the coffin, raised seven feet from the ground. Before the lying in state began, the coffin was carried through the streets on a horse-drawn carriage as thousand of onlookers lined the pavements. People filed by the coffin covered with the Queen Mother's personal standard which mixed the Royal Arms with the bows and lions of her own Bowes Lyon family. Leon and Butch shoveled some dirt onto the coffin, then thanked the men for their assistance. However, during her tangi, while her body lay in its coffin, her spirit returned and began speaking through her aunt, giving messages of hope and assurance to her people. She slumped as their 18 year-old son, Eric Jr., escorted her up to the open coffin. The way he goes about this vengeance, however, is enough a snooze for you to want to close your own coffin for an eternal slumber. Trapped once again inside the Humvee, the two men tried to secure what they knew could very well end up being their coffin. The coffin is manhandled back on the truck and heads off through the streets towards the cathedral graveyard, where, three hours later, the crowd has grown dense and patient. Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion. Personnel were divided up into the tasks of ceremonial coffin bearers, street liners, ushers for the chapel, car door openers, gun carriage crew and general working hands. When Alfred died in 1997, Ray was the only white coffin bearer at his funeral, and later Ray set about updating the book, which was republished last year. The Councillor was in charge of the guard of honour and coffin bearers. Mr Wright blew his chance and the line went to the other coffin bearer. Slowly, with enthusiasm that would put coffin bearers to shame, he moved past the poster cases, making nothing of the garish imagery and loud print. Looking back, one sees that was the final nail in the coffin of Libyan democracy. But upon reaching the coffin, which was framed in white and black marble and laced with gold trimmings, she stood aghast in silence for what seemed like an eternity. Cardinals wearing white miters processed onto the square, the wind rippling their red vestments and the pages of the book of the Gospel, which was placed on the coffin. He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it seesaws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen. The coffin, draped in a Union flag with Mr Miller's medals and helmet, was mounted on a turn-table ladder fire engine as it led a slow procession through the city. Show More Sentences The coffin will be placed on a catafalque of rough pine boards, nailed together and covered with black cloth, which was first used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral. It could be that the bill is a nail in the coffin of our family structure, or it could be that it is simply a reflection of a change whose time is due. So if the organisation were to die out with the older generation, would it be a natural death or would it be a nail in the coffin for local democracy and community spirit? So can broadband technology, an explosion of choice, and the continued cultural drift toward the short and the visual finally put a nail in the coffin? Pope John Paul II's simple coffin of blond cypress wood, with its only decoration a cross and the letter M for Mary, symbolised his unostentatious lifestyle. That had now ended with a flag covered coffin, a reality too wrenching to accept immediately. After his old friend Hobhouse had arranged for the coffin to lie in state for a few days in London, it was interred in the family vault at Hucknall Torkard, near Newstead. His tiny body is shown being held by tearful family members, then alone in powder blue satin coffin. Like video killed the radio star, Glee just put the final nail in the coffin of the concert movie. There has just been a death in the family, the wake is about to begin and the coffin is taking up most of the room, making it a tight squeeze for everyone. Forty oared vessels driven by 500 oarsmen, many dressed in period costume, rowed from Greenwich to Westminster, retracing the route of Nelson's coffin. A horse-drawn hearse took the coffin from the house to the church. It's not an unusual sight in Ireland, the funeral possession with the jersey on the coffin, the club guard of honour, the team-mates as pall-bearers. In 1685 after King James II's coronation, a choirman, Charles Taylour, removed a gold cross and chain having seen it glint through a hole in the coffin. Maybe there was symbolism in the fact that he had built her coffin. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown. A trumpet sounded through the sun-bathed cloisters of Manchester Cathedral after the coffin of Stephen Oake was borne in by six pall-bearers yesterday. In the distance, a funeral party lowered a coffin into the ground. The dead person is buried in a coffin about two feet below ground level. Once the disease sets in, the connecting structures between what is called the coffin bone and the membrane inside the outer hoof Laminae degenerate. Show More Sentences He could see a familiar figure in a white shirt and dark slacks bending down and retrieving what was surely a pack of coffin nails from its belly. But a picket of soldiers followed the poor coffin to the grave, officers made speeches over it, and her old comrades mustered from all parts of France to say good-bye. When the gun carriage itself comes past we will present arms to pay our compliments to the Queen Mother and other members of the Royal Family travelling behind the coffin. Mr Knox was devoted all his life to hunting and field sports, and his old horse, which he rode at last hunt not very long since, followed his coffin to the grave. Emily incarcerated in a narrow coffin is photographed as a cross section, claustrophobically clawing at the roof of her living tomb. But I defy anyone not to laugh at the opening sequence which features a coffin being squeakily jacked up ready to be slid into a burner. I can't stand the thought of some sky pilot who has never met me spewing out his rubbish over my coffin. The auction house procured the coffin through a Dallas funeral home. Sorin had to be sealed in a lead coffin as bodies were not embalmed there. At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet. Following the divorce and the lawsuit, bankruptcy is just another nail in his coffin. Elizabeth's coffin was carried downriver at night to Whitehall, on a barge lit with torches. He fell into such despair that he disinterred the body of a buried comrade and set out to sea in the coffin. The pair were caught in a large police operation in May, and Chaplin's coffin was found buried in a field in the nearby village of Noville. Inhumation burial in sarcophagi can often include the body being encased in gypsum and then in a lead coffin. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear. O, would she were hers'd at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin. He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western. Although the young woman's coffin was robbed in antiquity, the other remained in situ and undisturbed, and is now on display at the site. Devised by Chris Kilkenny it marks the journey between two of the last resting places of the coffin. The St Cuthbert Gospel is among the objects later recovered from St Cuthbert's coffin, which is also an important artefact. Show More Sentences It was buried extended on his back, within a badly deteriorated painted wooden coffin, and provided with a glazed faience amulet as a grave good. We have done dummy runs trying to second guess where the next coffin is going to be. Installation of 3 gas fuelled cremators with mercury abatement and heat recovery mechanism and coffin charger. But Gaynor said no Birmingham crematorium could cremate her because her coffin was bigger than their cremators. The coffin was taken into the Admiralty for the night, attended by Nelson's chaplain, Alexander Scott. Yesterday, the Record revealed how Norma Ingles was told her 30-stone husband Robert's coffin would not fit in any crematorium in Scotland. He was placed on a wooden underboard inside a wicker coffin and carried on the shoulders of family members towards the building. Made at a time when director Guy Ritchie could do no wrong, it's stylish, brilliantly written, and tough as a coffin nail. In extremely severe cases, the laminitis can be severe enough to allow rotation of the coffin bone leading to loss of the animal. Laminae are small, interlocking fingers that are responsible for attaching the hoof to the coffin bone. The interior walls of the coffin are inlaid with paintings of the divine protectresses Isis and Nephthys, sisters of the god Osiris. A richly furnished cremation grave excavated in 1972 contained an oak coffin, in which an Etruscan stamnos had been placed. And yesterday I joined 4,000 more Ricardians as we queued for up to four hours to catch a close-up glimpse of his coffin. A hand-printed Samoan lavalava and Cook Island e'i was placed on her coffin as a mark of respect. Some get hurt in the chute, which fits the bull like a coffin. The numerous mourners at his funeral filed past Bruce's coffin his iconic and severely battered Akubra placed jauntily at one end. I want my coffin to be shaped like an LI 150 Lambretta complete with mirrors and airhorn. The son walked alongside the fire rig that bore the flag-covered coffin. A double wicket maiden by Mathew was the final nail on the coffin as Al Seef Jewellers won by 79 runs. The weekend's washday problem is, fans fear, yet another toenail in the coffin. Show More Sentences We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses. God took exception to this, and struck the stone with a thunderbolt, destroying the coffin and splitting the stone in two. Behind this pair of mutes was a hearse carrying the coffin, followed by Huskisson's colleagues and his surviving brothers Thomas and Samuel. Huskisson's coffin was placed on a trestle table in the Town Hall, draped with black velvet and covered with feathered plumes. There is a stirring in the coffin business that is throwing the lid open on challenges facing the funerary industry. On 25 January, Edward VII, the Kaiser and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, helped lift her body into the coffin. Paul put the skull back in its proper place, put back the coffin lid, and kicked dirt and rocks overtop. Her coffin was draped with Fisher's flag as Admiral of the Fleet and topped by a coronet. His corpse, in its distinctive iron coffin, was moved several times over the next decades, but is now lost. On the day after the execution, the king's head was sewn back onto his body, which was then embalmed and placed in a lead coffin. The tomb was opened by officials in 1855, uncovering a wooden coffin, still in good condition, and a sealed lead coffin inside it. The body was raised up and placed on a wooden coffin board on the edge of the vault. Caitlin, without her customary hat, walked behind the coffin, with his childhood friend Daniel Jones at her arm and her mother by her side. Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque. The lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault in the 19th century, during an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor. A bemedalled NCO backed down the ramp, ready to steady the coffin. His coffin was carried to his grave in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey by other poets, who threw many pens and pieces of poetry into his grave with many tears. From the same director that revulsed you with the controversial backpacker horror Wolf Creek, it's yet another nail in the coffin of the Antipodean tourist board. Their funeral at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast was attacked by Michael Stone, a UDA member who threw grenades and fired shots as the coffin was lowered. Lights were kept burning round his coffin until the French Revolution. Show More Sentences Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin. The family was alone in the parlour with the great polished box. William, when laid out, was six feet four inches long. Like a monument lay the bright brown, ponderous coffin. Her elaborate coffin suggests she came from a high-ranking family. This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in St Grwst's Church, Llanrwst. And to honour his 27 years with the fire service, Mr Robinson's family had placed his helmet and fire axe on top of his coffin as it was carried into the chapel. The Co-operative Bank this week banged another nail in the coffin of the cheque by replacing cheque encashments at bank counters with plastic cards. Within the vault, inside the remnants of a decayed oak coffin, there was a body entirely enclosed in lead, with a decayed shroud of cloth of gold over it. The sailors charged with folding the flag draping Nelson's coffin and placing it in the grave instead tore it into fragments, with each taking a piece as a memento. Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin. On 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed immigrants, Roman Wardas, from Poland, and Gantcho Ganev, from Bulgaria. Thomas's coffin was carried by six friends from the village. Huge crowds viewed his coffin as he lay in state for two days in London. Instead, she spent another night in the vicarage with the coffin. In 1892, in preparation for the anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Americas, a body believed to be that of Pizarro was exhumed and put on display in a glass coffin. Bell's coffin was constructed of Beinn Bhreagh pine by his laboratory staff, lined with the same red silk fabric used in his tetrahedral kite experiments. An array of mementos commemorating her extended family, friends and servants were laid in the coffin with her, at her request, by her doctor and dressers. In some Quaker religious traditions, the coffin or ashes are not present. The position of the tomb was lost for many years until his lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault in the 19th century, during an excavation. Examples from Classical Literature And there, on the bank, he found a wooden coffin, from which came the radiance he had noticed. In a trice there were found good folks to dig the grave and fashion the coffin. The sexton and the policeman carried the coffin to the church-door, which the curate opened. This ceremony was performed at midnight, and on opening his coffin the body was found to be incorrupt. Priests sang prayers amid burning incense for the deliverance of the soul to God while interring the coffin into the ground. Natheless, a stick of good magic, thrall, for 'twas of this wood that the coffin of Mahound was built. Now, at the time the coffin was wheeled into the emergency room, what did Mrs. Kennedy do? The sexton and his man had lowered the coffin to its last home, and then stepped aside. And the non-arrival of the himalayan rabbits was only another nail in his coffin. Captain Grant, a fine fellow, put a wreath or immortelle upon the coffin as it passed us in church. Fuchs, who was the only cabinetmaker in the neighbourhood was set to work on a coffin. The entombment of the magnificent coffin of Frau Maria Ortlieb under the pavement of the family chapel was over. When the tomb of Saint Cecilia was opened an odour of roses came up from her coffin. The door at the end of the gangway opened, and the big jutlander came out with a tiny coffin under his arm. At last the pit was emptied, the coffin lowered, and the aspergillus passed round. Eid Mehemmed had brought a coffin with him in order to take the remains to Khiva. They left it on her breast, in the coffin, and it went with that guilty woman to the tomb. Here his grave had been already dug, and a black pine coffin lay beside it. Distinctly outlined on the lid of the coffin was the simulacrum of the figure of a man. The navicular bone is short, flattened above and below, and is attached to the coffin bone behind. Show More Sentences The lateral cartilages are attached, one on each side, to the wings of the coffin bone by their inferior borders. In rare cases the coffin bone may be involved in the injury and a small portion of it may become carious. When the wound is forward, near the toe, and deep enough to injure the coffin bone, caries always results. Wasting of the coffin bone and inflammation of its covering with caries is not unusual. In some instances nails may puncture the flexor tendons, the coffin bone, or enter the coffin joint. When the leaden coffin was soldered, six seals were placed upon it, five by cardinals, and one by the archivist. The foot-axis is an imaginary line passing from the fetlock joint through the long axes of the two pasterns and coffin bone. In another, a colly dog jumped over a coffin which a funeral party had set on the ground while they rested. And so there she was, shrunk just as short as she had been ordered to shrink, fitting into her coffin as cozily as you please! An hour after sundown they carried the bier on which her coffin rested into the chapel. Tons of water fell on her decks, with the dull sound of the clod on the coffin. All civilized mankind stood mourning around the coffin of the dead president. The cover was off, but the painted coffin of the Pharaoh lay in the depths of the sarcophagus. Then he called for his servants and ordered them to throw the coffin into the Nile. At the time of his disinterment, it is said that a large mass of silver was found, which was the mounting of his coffin. Help pick up Pierre's coffin and carry it, when he was about to dispossess Pierre's son? Else why should the bearers stagger, as they tremulously uphold the coffin? Gloaming had stolen into the valley when dite Deuchars of Tilliedrum rose to his feet and deliberately spat upon the coffin. Gloaming had stolen into the valley when dite Deuchars, of Tilliedrum, rose to his feet and deliberately spat upon the coffin. The coronet is a short, cube-shaped bone, set between the large pastern and coffin bone, in the same oblique direction. Show More Sentences Throwing the earth up on either side, he had digged to a depth of about two feet, when his spade encountered a coffin. To undouble him, that he might fit into a coffin, they had been forced to lug him to a fire and thaw him out a bit. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of coffin? Words that rhyme with coffin What is the past tense of coffin? What is the plural of coffin? What is the adjective for coffin? What is the noun for coffin? Translations for coffin Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Coffers coffers coffered cofferdam Coffer coffer Coffin coffined coffin-lid coffins Coffins coffle 6-letter Words Starting With c co cof coff coffi