Indeed, all who describe the course of initiation agree in declaring that the aspirant was buried for a time within some narrow space, a typical coffin or grave.
The coffinin which the Wanderer lies and the gods he worshipped," said Freydisa.
We had left the coffin in the sarcophagus and the mummy in the coffin, and replaced their lids.
I entered it, seeking somewhere to hide myself, and saw a painted coffinlying on the floor near to the marble sarcophagus from which it had been dragged.
It was like to that of the Wanderer as I had seen him lying in his oak coffin in the mound, only younger than he had seemed to be in the coffin.
The lid of thecoffin lifted quite easily, for it was not pegged down, and slid of its own weight over the side of the tree.
Moreover, he wore the same armour that the man in the coffin wore, and at his side hung the red, cross-handled sword.
It moved among the trees, with a coffin in its arms!
But oh, I can't forget how little the coffin looked.
The Forcus carriage, therefore, had been conspicuous in the meagre procession following the little coffin to the cemetery.
They placed it in thecoffin with the nurse and buried it temporarily.
Lewis sent for the undertaker right away and they put something on the bodies and sealed up the coffin and they were to be buried this morning and the clothes to be burned and the house fumigated.
For all the people who looked at their young faces knew, they might have stood by the coffin of the child who helped to write them.
Sometimes a coffin is carried to the spot on the charred débris where the find is made.
While looking for Miss Paulsen, of Pittsburg, of the drowned, she came to a coffin which was marked "Mrs. H.
The body was placed in a coffin a few minutes later and sent away to its narrow house.
The father will lay the wrecked bicycle on the coffin of his son.
The two, child and doll, were not parted when the white coffin received them, and they will moulder together.
Then the tag was taken from the stakes and tacked on the coffin lid, which was immediately closed up, as identification was of course out of the question.
The body of Miss Bessie Bryan, the young Philadelphian, was identified to-day as it lay in a coffin by a grave from which it had been exhumed in Grand View Cemetery.
Well, not one of you goes unless he takes a coffin with him.
She tore the card from the coffin and one of the officers was about to arrest her.
Each coffin had a descriptive card on it, and on the graves a similar card was placed, so that bodies can be removed later by friends.
They gazed upon the features of their dead as if they were totally unable to comprehend it all, and reported their identification to the attendants and watched the body as it was put into a coffin and went away.
Each coffin was numbered and each lid turned to show the face within.
Thanks be offered up for it, it didn't last, or I should ha' been in my coffin afore the day were out!
Close to the coffin walked the heir, Lionel; Jan and Dr.
But Coffin at once threatened to kill the first man to move; and by the time an artillery officer had arrived with reinforcements perfect order had been restored.
The thirteen bodies were dug out and Thompson was ordered to have a 'genteel coffin made for Mr Montgomery,' who was buried in the wall just above St Louis Gate by the Anglican chaplain.
About the place were strewn the coffin lids and the mummied remains of the two bodies that the Arabs had previously violated.
The cover was off, but the painted coffinof the Pharaoh lay in the depths of the sarcophagus.
They revealed to him the secret of the place, telling him that one coffin yet remained entombed.
It seemed to be the coffin of a poor person, they said, and therefore, being pressed for time, they had left it unviolated.
We climbed the Sphinx, then I blew the dust from the coffin with my breath and read that which was written on its lid.
For answer I bade her stand upon the Sphinx and grasp the upper part of the coffin while I grasped its foot.
Ali had brought a mallet and a cold chisel with him, and, having set the coffin straight, he began upon it with all the zeal of an experienced tomb-breaker.
It was a roll of papyrus, carelessly fastened and wrapped in a piece of mummy cloth, having to all appearance been thrown into the coffin at the moment of closing.
Before being taken to the place of burial, the body, fully dressed, is carried in an open coffin to the church, where a religious service is held, of which an address sometimes forms part.
It is some spirit that in the coffin lies, And makes my hair start up on end with fear!
For in this darkness I have lost myself; I am not dead, for I have sense and life: How come I then in this coffin buried?
But next morning the earth they had thrown over the dead woman was found removed, and there lay the coffin open and empty.
The following year the old lady did die, and her coffin was borne to its last resting-place, when lo!
Full of gratitude, he bought a coffin and buried the dead animal; and the people now call the place the Grave of the Faithful Dog.
Then when the coffin arrived at the point where roads branched off to the two graves, the two brothers, each leading on his own little army of geomancers, bore down upon it with a view to gaining possession of the corpse.
A dying man is almost always moved into his coffin to die; and aged persons frequently take to sleeping regularly in the coffins provided against the inevitable hour by the pious thoughtfulness of a loving son.
Some, perhaps, for the sake of bygone times, may stroke the coffin and let fall a tear, departing quickly with a cold smile.
My coffin shall be black, Six angels at my back, Two to sing and two to pray And two to carry my soul away.
And they would carry the coffin out of the chapel slowly and he would be buried in the little graveyard of the community off the main avenue of limes.
This ceremony was performed at midnight, and on opening his coffin the body was found to be incorrupt.
This was found on one of the fingers of St. Cuthbert, when his coffin was opened by the visitors in 1537.
Lord Braybrooke purchased in 1849 a Roman gold finger-ring, set with an intaglio in ribbon onyx, which was found in a Roman stone coffin at York: subject, a Fortuna Redux.
The skeleton was nearly entire, and among the dust in the coffin a gold ring was found and a large sapphire set in it.
One belated horseman positively declared that when passing this accursed place he had seen a child's coffin moving along the road, as he moved; and that the spectre followed him almost into the town of Ipswich.
There is an anecdote of the first Napoleon which affirms that he took a valuable amethyst from the crown in the coffin of Charlemagne.
To descend into it, and find there the great marble coffin with its bronze dolphins, is not unlike going down into the cellar of a residence and there discovering the family silver reposing in the coal-bin.
The coffin containing the remains was carried in the wagon.
Coffin decided to put his words on it at a spot corresponding to seven hours hence.
Coffin faced his radio man, captured the fearful eyes and would not let them go.
It would have made matters easier," said Coffin stiffly.
Coffin murmured thoughtfully: "After only a few days of deceleration, there won't be enough reaction mass to do anything but continue home.
Coffin shared things with them--predominantly North American background, scientific habit of thought, distrust of all governments.
The Ranger skipper, Nils Kivi, was like a breath of home: a small dapper Finn who had traveled with Coffin on the first e Eridani trip.
As he hauled himself toward the Ranger, Coffin watched the receiver web grow in his eyes, till it snared a distorted Milky Way.
Coffin alone, of all the fleet's company, held to the black garments of a space service long extinct.
Even if he meant that, Coffin thought, he might talk in his sleep.
They fell on the typer, and the drafts which Coffinhad not yet destroyed.
But God was silent, and Coffin turned blindly to the only other help he could think of.
Coffin had never understood how his atheist colleagues endured free space.
When he left the Pioneer, Coffin felt oddly hollow, as if he had opened his chest and pulled out heart and lungs.
As he doubled up, Coffingripped him with legs and one hand, balled the other fist, and hit him often in the solar plexus.
Coffin thought sometimes he would be glad to see the last of them.
I always did hate those coffin plates, but Joel seemed to like 'em.
And the Macomber family coffin plates, those you had set out on black velvet with all Joel's dead relations names on 'em, in the plush and gilt frame?
Before the train got to Winona other baggage was piled on top, so the coffin only showed one end, and the parrot cage was behind a trunk, next to the barrel of drinking water, out of sight, and where the cage would not get jammed.
The coffin was seen by all the men in the baggage car, and a solemnity took possession of everybody.
In my coffin it shall lie, with my ring and something else.
It had a broken and worm-eaten coffin on its shoulder and a bundle of something in its hand.
Look at that coffin of mine--yet I tell you in its day it was a piece of furniture that would have attracted attention in any drawing-room in this city.
And with his gravestone on his shoulder he joined the grisly procession, dragging his damaged coffin after him, for notwithstanding he pressed it upon me so earnestly, I utterly refused his hospitality.
He had two-thirds of a coffin on his shoulder, and some foot and head boards under his arm.
This one was bending under a heavy gravestone, and dragging a shabby coffin after him by a string.
Thus magnificently attired, the body was enclosed in a coffin which was covered with black velvet and decorated with a cross of white damask.
Even in her coffin her dark, handsome features preserved their expression of pride and determination.
She fell slowly backwards into her narrow couch, and when the people had taken courage again, they came hurriedly and closed the coffin in great awe.
They all came out to follow the procession to Milly, where her coffin was placed for a while at the entrance, on the very benches where every morning sat the needy to whom she used to distribute food or medicine.
I believe a Frenchman would joke in his coffin if he could speak.
