At all events a medical certificate pronounced her dead, and she was shrouded and coffined for interment.
When it was opened next day the appearance of the body showed that he had been coffined alive, and had had a terrible struggle to escape.
And the corded champion whimpered in her arms, for he did not know but eating might indeed be his fate, and he would have preferred to be coffined anywhere in the world rather than to be coffined inside of that face.
After 1666 the old churchyards were not less crowded than before, but more crowded, perhaps because coffined corpses occupied more space and decayed more slowly.
He cites the burial fees paid to the parson as twice as much forcoffined as for uncoffined corpses.
To dungeoned knells where venom specks The robes of priestesses with sin, And prowling apes get drunk with wine, We turn each thought to coral eyes That seas have blurred with coffined night, And whisper deeds wrought in silence.
Where shadows vague and coffined light, Spit broths from splinter'd wracks and domes.
Over the fields a voice calls from the tomb, Pleading and pleading drearily, But all the slaves have fled And left her talking to her coffined dead, And whimpering eerily.
Well, it did not matter whether I stood over my beloved one's coffined dust or looked from a few yards' distance at the dim grass covering it.
In my poor way, I here certify to the noble qualities, to the brave deeds of the soldiers coffined yonder.
But a few short Sabbaths before, the coffined dead left the city of their homes, possessed of life and hope: looking forward with pride and happiness to the termination of an honorable career in the service of their country.
It is a rule with the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia that a corpse must not be coffined in the house, or the souls of the other inmates would enter the coffin, and they, too, would die.
The body is taken out either through the roof or through a hole made in one of the walls, and is thencoffined outside the house.
TO-DAY I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide The resurrection of departed pride.
The very next day a leading article in the Daily Herald casually quoted Fladpick's famous line: "Coffined in English yew, he sleeps in peace.
You may be interested to know that the last line in the last tragedy is: 'Coffined in English yew he sleeps in peace.
This morning two little children apparently not over three and four years old, were taken from the water clasped in each other's arms so tightly that they could not be separated, and they were coffined and buried together.
The lot of bodies held and coffined at Morrellville presented a different feature.
A sight most painful to behold was presented to view about noon to-day, when a procession of fifty unidentified coffined bodies started up the hill above the railroad to be buried in the improvised cemetery there.
There was no time for religious ceremonies or mourning and many a mangled form was coffined with no sign of mourning save the honest sympathy of the brave men who handled them.
After his death, neither the door nor the stairs would afford egress for the large and coffined corpse.
He was carried home, and in due course was coffined and borne towards the grave.
I heard the burial service, and saw a rudelycoffined form lowered into an open grave.
Before the sun had risen our dead, coffined only by their army blankets, lay in unmarked graves.
A few days later Bernard Darcy lay coffined in the pretty parlor, while wife and mother were crushed with grief.
But his son, bending over the coffined face, was stunned, paralyzed.
His favorite tree, beneath which his coffined figure lay at his funeral, was injured by the fire and has since been removed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coffined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
