As I wandered out into the meadows behind the mews, I came upon a pile of coffins under a shed,--new and awaiting occupants.
Beyond were two still perfect coffins of later date, and yet farther in where the shadows were thicker rose the ruins of coffin on coffin, all tumbling pell-mell into one wild chaos.
The entire space was crowded with coffins in all stages of appalling decay and ruin and dating all the way along from the reign of Elizabeth.
However, even the bodies of common people were sometimes interred in rude coffins similarly constructed.
If you were to see the big coffins they are buried in and realize the large part of China's scant forests that must go into coffins you would favor a law that no man could die until he had planted a tree for his coffin and one extra.
The coffinsat Stafford House seemed to appeal to his sense of humour.
He contended that we should, when our turns came, be buried in coffins made of wicker-work.
Both coffins were conveyed to Fang, and put in the ground together, with no intervening space between them, as was the custom in some States.
Inner coffins were made four inches thick, and the outer ones five.
Later and less worthy of notice are the coffins of the two first sainted abbesses of the convent of Lorvão, near Coimbra, in which elaborate acanthus scrolls in silver are laid over red velvet.
The bas-reliefs of the marble coffins represented Christian love-feasts and pastoral scenes.
As a work of art, each of the coffins is a choice specimen of Roman funeral sculpture of the second century of our era.
This theory is confirmed by discoveries in the prehistoric cemeteries of the Viminal and Esquiline hills, which contain coffins as well as cineraria, or ash-urns.
We have not yet discovered coffins actually dug out of a tree, but we have found rude imitations of them in clay.
The Coffins of America are descended from Tristram Coffin of England and Nantucket.
They took up of that which remained over of the broken pieces, twelve coffins full.
The most ancient seat of the name and family of the Coffins in England is Portledge, in the parish of Alwington.
The appearance of the skulls, before so carefully concealed from the view of the living, now thrown out of the coffins into the graves, was truly ghastly.
A ray of sunshine, streaming through the church window, found its way across the mouldy velvet of the old coffins as they stood ranged along in solemn order, containing the dust of many ancestors of the present possessors of the manor.
The coffins were borne by Hanseatic seamen; over them waved the Rostock and Visbye flags.
He was anxious to wedge them out of the coffins that buried each of them separately into themselves.
I told this story the other day to George Selwyn, whose passion is to see coffins and corpses, and executions: he replied, "that Arthur More had had his coffin chained to that of his mistress.
Everything is convention, and lead coffins and oak coffins cannot be held as proof of insanity, because men believe still in the resurrection of the body.
For many days the carpenters had not been able to work fast enough to make coffins for the dead of Clermont.
It was a system of piling upcoffins of plaster in pyramid fashion, to such an extent that one of these pyramidal mounds measures over 14½ millions of cubic feet.
Why, the coffins and the contents have now frequently to be submitted to the flames, in the full view of the population.
A system of inhumation analogous to that practised when stone-coffins were in use is now agitating in Germany.
The bodies are first of all dried in coffins made for the purpose, whereupon the mummy is burnt, the ashes being deposited in mounds, which last are eventually covered over with conical roofs.
It was the opinion of Mr. Chadwick, after examining some hundreds of witnesses of all kinds, that entombment in vaults was a more dangerous practice than interment in the earth, because of the liability of the coffins to burst.
A line of rails would be laid down in this passage, and an iron car with its freight of coffins would be propelled through it by means of a blast of compressed air.
In the case of private graves the coffins had been laid without any intervening earth at all.
The Fosse commune is simply a long trench in which the cheap coffins are placed all together, and the earth heaped over them indiscriminately.
From this period of the Revolution, these summary processes were forbidden; the bodies were obliged to be carried in wagons or cars, excepting those of children, though sometimes several coffins were placed in the same vehicle.
A cemetery must have been violated hereabouts, for on the mud of the shore there are empty coffins with human bones alongside them.
Now the coffins have been lowered, each one to its hole, adding to the already long row of new-made graves; all the Zouaves approach in serried rank while their commandant recalls in a few words how these two fell.
The Chinese have ransacked the graves, destroyed the bodies, and even violated the coffins of little children.
There is the churchyard by the bleak sea-shore, where coffins have been laid bare by the encroaching waves; and the niche in cathedral crypt, or the vault under the church's floor.
She had grown very gray since she heard the coffins fall in the nursery fifteen years before, but her strange eyes were the same, and the look in them woke all my old memories.
At eight o'clock they arrived at the spot where three graves were dug; here their coffins were deposited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coffins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
