The king became very sad, but at last remembered the coffer his father had given him.
He took out the coffer and opened it; from it there fell out an apple, which rolled towards the couch.
Whereupon King Loc made a sign to his treasurer who, raising heavy tapestries, disclosed an enormous iron-bound coffer covered with plates of open ironwork.
This coffer being opened out poured thousands of rays of different and lovely tints, and each ray seemed to leap out of a precious stone most artistically cut.
Then King Loc ordered another cofferto be opened, in which were only pearls.
However he opened a third coffer and showed the young girl a crystal in which a drop of water had been imprisoned since the beginning of time; and when the crystal was moved the drop of water could be seen to stir.
The Deluge came, the chest or coffer floated at the mercy of the waves for nine days and nine nights, and was finally stranded on Mount Parnassus.
He received them all, and while they were in the coffer Zeus inspired them with reciprocal amity which prevented their devouring one another.
Then he opened the cofferand took out a Crown of Gold, so curiously wrought and set with pearls and gems, that all were amazed at its beauty; and it well appeared that it was only fit for the brow of some mighty lord.
He had charge of the common coffer and the keys of the town gates, and kept the assize of bread and of ale.
The common seal was kept in a large coffer with two locks; one of the twenty-four was chosen to keep one key, and one of the commons to keep the other.
Upon this island is an oak tree, and at the foot of it, hidden in the earth, a coffer bound with iron.
Right at the bottom of this case was a coffer bound with iron.
This leads into a chamber known as the king's chamber, whose walls are exquisitely polished and which contains a coffer known as Cheops' Coffin.
The commemoration of the dead was connected among the Egyptians with a deluge, which was typified by the priest placing the image of Osiris in a sacred coffer or ark, and launching it out into the sea till it was borne out of sight.
This coffer has been villainously treated by travellers, who have chipped and damaged it, but originally it was very carefully made and polished.
D'Artagnan had caused the coffer to be brought as far as the king's ante-chamber.
Italian (Florentine) Coffer of Wood with gilt arabesque stucco ornament, about 1480.
The empty coffer open at his side, He leant on elbow by the mantelpiece Before the hearth-fire; big and blazing too.
The coffer-lid Is fastened, and the coffer safely hid Under the Loxian's choicest gifts of gold.
Hertford put in his pocket the key of the coffer in which the King’s will was kept, and Paget had to ride out into the dark after him to obtain possession of it.
The third coffer was “Queen’s jewels,” and contained chains of gold studded with rosettes of pearl and other valuables.
And the peasant said to Woe, "You just creep into the coffer and get out the gold, and I'll stand here and hold up the stone.
The peasant took the jar into his lap, and, as at the same time he let the stone fall back into its old place, he shut up Woeful Woe in the coffer with all the gold.
His death depends upon the point of a needle, that needle is in a hare, that hare is in a coffer, that coffer is on the top of a high oak, and Koshchei guards that tree as the apple of his eye.
Suddenly, how who can tell, the bear rushed at the tree and tore it up by the roots, the coffer fell and was smashed to pieces, the hare leaped out, and with one bound had taken cover.
So Woe crept into the coffer with great glee, and cried out, "Hie, master, here are riches incalculable!
The damsel shoved Vasily into a coffer beneath the floor, locked him in, and whispered: "Listen to what I say to the Serpent.
In Blumenthal lake, 'tis said, there is an iron-bound yellowcoffer which fishermen often have tried to raise, but their cords are cut as it nears the surface.
Declining the inquiry at present, we merely call the attention of the reader to what this mystical coffer was supposed to contain--a serpent!
Why was the Serpent slipped into the Ark or coffer and hid behind veils?
In the drawing-room is an Arabian coffer of marvellous workmanship; this coffer contains a million in gold, struck on purpose for you: it is virgin gold, such as gold ought to be that your little hands deign to touch.
He kept his coffer shut; and, for a consequence, he saw the contents as an avenue of blossom leading to vistas of infinite harvest.
The girl went to the coffer and brought out the little bracelet; then she approached Walter.
Very well, Edith, fetch the bracelet from that coffer in the corner.
The girl went to the coffer and brought out the little bracelet, then she approached Walter.
All of them contain the punishment for curiosity motive, which is doubled both in Apuleius (with the coffer at the end) and in Basile and Crane.
But he showed how much he loved her, so that they at last yielded, and he called for his men to carry the coffer home to his palace.
And when the men commenced carrying the coffer down the mountain they jolted it so much that the piece of poisoned apple in Snowwhite's throat fell out, and she revived and opened her eyes and looked upon the Prince who was riding by her side.
Then they told him her history, and he begged that he might carry the coffer away so that he might always have her near him.
So the dwarfs had a glass coffer made, and put Snowwhite in and locked it up.
Then he ordered the coffer to be opened, and told her all that had happened.
The coffer itself is an inch thick, and the lock will stand anything but dynamite.
In the coffer is a hare, under the hare is a grey duck, and under the duck is an egg in which is contained the life of Koshchei.
When the prince opened the coffer out sprang the hare, and away flew the duck carrying the egg with it.
We can hardly suppose that, as in the case of the coffer with a crimson cover, which was sent to Mary at Loch Leven, the crowned F's were worked in gold on the covering velvet.
That by the English Commissioners at York, 'a little coffer of silver and gilt,' better describes the relic.
Gowrie was not willing to admit the fact of possession, but Bowes proved that the coffer had reached him through Sandy Jordan, a servant of the late Earl of Morton.
Later, according to Randolph, they opened a little coffer of Bothwell's which had a covering of green cloth, and was deposited in the Castle, and took out the band.
I have ventured the theory that this carefully covered little coffer may have been the Casket itself.
Randolph had been stirring the story of Lethington's opening the coffer in a green cover, in the autumn of 1570.
