| 单词 | coffin |
| 例句 | "If I could afford it, I'd get off this rock, too. Maybe the last crate I make will be my own—and hopefully it won't be a coffin." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The same multitude that had gathered to see him off the day he flew away in his bird paraded past his coffin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was my turn to file past the coffin I did so real slow. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the room—to his right—there was a row of forty or so large white pods that looked like enormous coffins. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After several feet of digging, their shovels struck the small coffin. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if the coffin was very heavy and, if so, how Henry would manage. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After giving the widow their condolences, they crossed the living room to stand before the open coffin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The tight little crawl space under the floorboards suddenly felt like a coffin, like I was already dead and buried. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z This means that she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The four men in fatigues lifted the coffin on slings and lowered it into the grave. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Further, they stated that the money their society had collected for making coffins and burying the dead “has not defrayed the expense of wages which we had to pay to those whom we employed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Something Annabeth and I were discussing. Do you remember what you told me about your first trip to the Princess Andromeda, the first time you saw the golden coffin?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This early culture was a separate entity—another nail in the coffin of the Clovis-as-template theory, to her way of thinking. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly a hoarse, muffled sound broke the thick silence of the night, as if it was coming from the bottom of a coffin, or so Blanca thought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Cherie says she almost passed out when she saw Skeet lying dead in his coffin. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Up at the lumberyard they’d be knocking together Shotgun Cheatham’s coffin and sending the bill to the county, and Grandma had to tell them to bring that coffin to her house, with Shotgun in it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily at the cemetery the lid of a coffin was lifted a final time before interment, allowing loved ones to say good-bye, but the condition of Anna’s body made that impossible. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At this point he began to talk directly to the coffin, which I had noticed upon my arrival and had studiously avoided thereafter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Every minute that ticked by felt like another nail in Miss Peregrine’s coffin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Dozens of plain wooden coffins of all sizes lie in a trench surrounded by the small crowd, all that remains of the Jewish community of Kielce, once twenty-five thousand strong. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As much as I hated Luke, as much as he had betrayed me, I just didn’t get why he was in the coffin, and why he looked so very, very dead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In a south section of the prison compound there stands a curious little building: a dark two-storied building shaped like a coffin. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie kept her eyes on the floor so that she wouldn’t have to look at the flower-covered coffin standing on trestles before the altar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "Could the body in the coffin, which you did not examine, have been no body at all? Could it have been a wax dummy dressed in the costume of Uncle Sam?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finished singing, Jack Rabbit Jones took off his shades, walked over to the long, polished oak coffin where Cool Papa Byrd’s body rested, and placed the shades over Cool Papa Byrd’s closed eyes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z A month after we buried him in the coffin box, the U.S. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When we got to the grave and they lowered the empty coffin, you let out a noise like an animal. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He then lit a dark lantern and pointed to the coffin. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The tradition had carried on to the Caribbean—the Haitians would march in wild circles with the coffin so that the spirit wouldn’t be able to find its way back home to bother everybody. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She looked up and scanned the space behind me, where the baby’s coffin was. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And he was content, holding it thus, and he thought of it fitfully and of his good coffin that was there; and the kind earth waited without haste until he came to it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Dad set up a still camera on a tripod, connected the delayed-action attachment, and took a series of pictures showing us lowering the coffin into the grave and covering it with sand. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone behind Matt muttered,“The old vampire. So he managed to crawl out of the coffin again.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From this high perch, the reporter spotted an undertaker struggling to get his supply of coffins to safety. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z By then the blood was dripping off my chin and onto the white satin lining inside the coffin. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man sprinkles some straw and grass on the coffin and as he climbs out the other man shovels in the earth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A block before the cemetery, the car broke down and Felicia’s coffin had to be carried the rest of the way by eight pallbearers in white. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The white rose on her coffin reminded me of everything I had and everything I had lost. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They searched the coffin, the hearse, all of us, and two guys who were just sitting on their stoop, but they didn’t find anything because naturally there wasn’t anything to find. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hand it to me, he says, and Dad hands him the coffin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Belle-trunks are lined up in the middle of the main salon like coffins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But on the other hand, who would want to open a coffin? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t produce tears for El Viejo, but he did feel sorry for him, lying there like a starved bird in his silk-lined coffin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Donay’s body is there in the middle, shrunk in the big coffin, looking lonely to me. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember how she talked across the coffin to Mama. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was not Rebecca who was lying in that coffin in the crypt, it was dust. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, no! I’m giving you a bargain. The coffin alone cost me...” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I suggested filling the coffin with things from Dad’s life, like his red pens or his jeweler’s magnifying glass, which is called a loupe, or even his tuxedo. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow the women who came to mourn Ultima’s death would help my mother dress her in black, and my father would make her a fine pine coffin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the room—to his right—-there was a row of forty or so large white pods that looked like enormous coffins. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z The coffin’s wood was as dry as its occupant, and perfect for burning. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The most seriously ill were taken by cart to Bush Hill; the dead were placed in coffins and hauled to the graveyards. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But behind his father’s coffin his uncle rode first. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The sugar and crackers were wrapped in cellophane, the jelly in a small plastic coffin sealed with cellophane. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the next night he was in a coffin in the living-room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When someone died, women would gather to wash and dress the body, while men built coffins and dug the ground for the burial. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A coffin at the center of the room served as a bar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It wipes out the sensibilities, I merely crawl still farther under the coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I mentioned it to Mom and she replied that if you think about it a refrigerator is just a coffin for food that stands upright. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The National Colors were draped over the coffin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the cemetery, El Cura said a few words, and then the coffin was lowered, as Juanita’s mother and aunts wailed about what a good man he was and how he didn’t deserve to die. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I walked up to the coffin and stood between August and Rosaleen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Dolores lived there with him and kept the house clean with the orderliness of a coffin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the altar the coffin loomed in its snow pallor of flowers—the black shadow of something that wasn't there. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z One thing that surprised me was that the coffin was wet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Delicate snowflakes fell upon her, and as she heard the splash of the coffin falling into the sea, Lady Meng raised her head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z You die of cold or hunger or suffocation, trapped in a dark coffin made of ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When I touched it my hands went cold, and I knew I was about to open a coffin. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The woman people called Violent now because she had tried to kill what lay in a coffin. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony in the church took about half an hour; there was a blessing, and then the coffin was lowered and the freezing mourners departed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She tells me get into that pub and tell my father to stop the drinking and get the coffin and the carriage. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments of old coffins and piles of dust; in the third, however, I made a discovery. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Besides, a heavy gauze hung from the open lid and down over the front of the coffin to veil him. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When he saw the coffin’s absence, his back straightened and, saying something impossible for Pinmei to hear, took hold of Lady Meng’s arm as if to take possession of her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z By nightfall a green pine coffin stood on two sawhorses in the bay window of the front room, and people milled in the yard. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Six bodyguards, including Tam Lin and Daft Donald, carried the coffin from the hospital to the desert beyond the mausoleum. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw mothers issuing out of doorways behind small coffins, screaming at the pall-bearers to return the dear corpse. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She heard the dullthudding through the polished coffin wood, through the satin coffin lining. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Manifest sheriff took Donal’s shovel and lifted the lid of the coffin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She would manufacture a beautiful corpse, with the linen shroud and a plush-lined coffin with purple trim, and she would put it at the disposition of the worms with splendid funeral ceremonies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The survivors shovel the soil over the coffins and disband. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I don’t know why they have to send him away with that man who puts his pint on the white coffin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Donal nodded at Jinx, who pried open the lid of the coffin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She says, I’ll go down to Thompson the undertaker about the coffin and the carriage. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In that way it was not much different than if they had died at Wake Island or Iwo Jima: the bodies were dismembered beyond recognition and the coffins were sealed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z My black suit pants stood out against the white tarp stretched beneath the coffin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Even though Dad’s coffin was empty, his closet was full. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Some newspapers around the world reported that the body wasn’t actually dug up but that a drill was inserted through the earth, then through the coffin and into Bobby’s body. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I’d had the idea to dig up Dad’s coffin the night after I met the renter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There was more information about courses and records in grammar school and extracurricular activities but Obie closed the notebook as if he were lowering a coffin lid. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of rats living in his coffins knotted my stomach as I signed my name. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Estimo then renewed his request that the Targ brothers submit their DNA, so it could be compared with the samples taken from the body in the coffin. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z An airshaft dimensioned like a coffin was built into the bedrooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When demonstrators set fire to a coffin as part of their protest, the firemen at the scene doused the flames and then turned their hoses on the crowd. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But personally I didn’t think guilt had anything to do with the nice coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Now the preacher had finished, and someone signaled the bandmaster and there was solemn music as the pallbearers carried the coffin down the spiraling stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Silence settles, and in silence they bear coffins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the tumult of the last moment, the sad drunkards who carried them out of the house got the coffins mixed up and buried them in the wrong graves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As the coffin settled into the dirt, it made this noise, almost like a breath, you know? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z AT THE cemetery, the crowds gathered like moss around the plot, where a Jesuit from San Cecilia, with the sign of the cross, scattered earth over the coffin. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z For a while, I just watched people walk up to the coffin, which was on some kind of cart covered in a purple tablecloth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I told him about everything—Luke’s invasion plan, the Labyrinth entrance at camp, Daedalus’s workshop, Kronos’s golden coffin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” he whispered to the occupant of the first, “but I need your coffin. They’ll give you another one, don’t worry.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After my grandmother died, I felt like crawling into the coffin with her. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you bury her in a coffin?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z At the McIntyres’ a coffin was placed in front of the door, and Mr. McIntyre rose from it in silence, his face covered with chalk, and deposited a fistful of candy corns into our sacks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Their faces, which showed apprehension before reaching the coffin, revealed, on the way down the opposite aisle, a final confirmation of their fears. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In desperation I summoned up the last image I had of her, outlined against the satin pleats in her virginal coffin, with her bride’s blossoms in her hair and a rosary in her hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Flags were held over the coffin, the Greek flag on one side, the American flag on the other. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The bodies were placed in identical coffins, and then it could be seen that once more in death they had become as identical as they had been until adolescence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And he muttered, “I must see to the coffin.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I know that’s Eugene’s coffin because Oliver had one like it and I want to cry when I see the black pints on top of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We planned and planned, but for some reason we never talked about what we would actually do once we’d opened the coffin. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z When we got there the undertakers pulled out the coffin and put it on a roller and rolled it right onto the grass. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And he said an aunt and uncle had been to see him, and told him they had a coffin waiting to carry him to some little cemetery in north Missouri. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby’s coffin lay on a table draped in white cloth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The coffin was lowered into the grave, the head facing the east, in keeping with Islamic tradition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked across the room at the pile of coffins. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were with me here yesterday. Was the body of Miss Lucy in that coffin?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was a plain stone coffin, with a cracked lid, and the name that was once on it could no longer be deciphered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My dad kept a file, and at least four or five times a year he would write to Washington, D.C., asking someone to please help get his father’s coffin back to Florida. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “It is easy enough to alter the coffin,” Pai answered sulkily. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He hoisted out a smaller, metal box lying within the pine coffin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I picture Charlie in his coffin, nodding, certain that the Great Hunter meant for everything to unfold as it has. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She had her mosquito net rigged up over it, so it didn't look that strange like a real uncovered coffin with a dead person inside. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It looked like a shipping crate, not a proper coffin for a head of state. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It even had a limited choice of coffins, hidden away in a back room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Insane with grief, tears boiling from her reddened eyes, she would probably tear my corpse from the coffin, screaming drunkenly, “Don’t take him! Why do the sweetest flowers wither and fall from the stem?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This last blow overcame her, and she knelt by Beaufort’s coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “Luke was talking about raising Kronos, little pieces of him appearing in the coffin every time someone new joined his cause.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z "Intern Deere, you saw the body of Samuel W. Westing in the coffin. Did he appear to have been poisoned?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole coffin gave off an aura of extreme cold, like I was walking into a freezer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z When it came time to give the deceased the final kiss, the mourners filed past Milton’s coffin and kissed its burnished lid. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He pulled down the coffins, one by one, from their shelves, and let them clatter onto the ground, shattering the old wood, spilling their contents onto the mausoleum floor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I had gotten to the point where I was walking on my own coffin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The bronze coffin was wheeled inside and placed upon a platform draped in thick dark red velvet, in front of the altar, and the coffin’s lid was reopened. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And the man promised to paint the coffins again a good black and send them to Wang Lung’s house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was wrapped in white linen and placed in a wooden coffin that was set on a table in the living room of the man whose verandah we had slept on. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We passed the stack of coffins, the landslide of bones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The cemetery workers began rolling up the tarp, preparing to put the coffin in the ground. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The lamplight spilling into the coffin gave her a kind of glow. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Did you hear about coffins...and females singing...and the lines forming to get into Hell? Did you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When the priest stepped down and walked around the coffin sprinkling holy water at the four corners of it, a woman sitting across the aisle sobbed wildly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could fill the coffin with jewelry, like they used to do with famous Egyptians, which I know about.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He began a solemn speech explaining the circumstances of the case, but was brutally interrupted by Nivea, who threw herself on the dusty coffin that held the remains of her dearest brother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “We got a call that somebody was bringing in a shipment of crack in a coffin,” the policeman said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He knelt before a coffin at the front of the chapel. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I had been dreading Ob’s death for so long that in my mind I practically had the coffin picked out and which tie he’d wear. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z As volunteers placed the mother in a coffin, the child had cried out, “Why are you putting Mamma in that box?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t ask him what was in them, because for some reason I thought I should wait until he told me, even though he was my dad, which made the coffin mine, too. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They finish their pints and wipe the wet brown stains off the coffin with their sleeves. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The three words were still pumping in her throat as she turned away from the coffin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I haven’t seen a coffin for four, five days now,” the driver answered. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The coffin was never moved or raised, but the lid was opened. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I thought about that my second time in a limousine, when the renter and I were on our way to dig up Dad’s empty coffin. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the plain coffin of a rail splitter. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were three coffins stacked on the deck. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Mundín likes to say, “You would, too, if you slept in a coffin!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The inside of my hab-unit was an eggshell white injection-molded plastic coffin, a meter high, a meter wide, and two meters long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She would need an oversized coffin and six wrestlers to carry it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And he had the coffin brought into his room and he looked at it every day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I can still see him in the coffin, all cold and stiff. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There were flowers to be purchased, along with a white metal coffin and a marble tombstone. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then earth struck the coffin; the child awakened and began to scream. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z His grimness forbade any comment as he stalked across the yard behind the coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She led him up to the coffin, where they admired the flowers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was only when the crowd started to move a bit—some drifted toward the parking lot, others went forward to drop roses onto the coffin—that I saw Faith again. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z As if a feeble hand had reached up from the coffin depths in one last desperate attempt to live before the dirt was shoveled in. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Meggie was speaking to Dustfinger, but as she spoke she looked at her mother, who was still sitting on the stone coffin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Once that creaky coffin door had opened, the smell of a thousand years of rotting death drifted out through the thick woven fabric of my clothing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The thudding sound they made as they fell to the bottom reminded me of clods of dirt raining down on a fresh coffin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I could just see funeral homes selling big jars of honey for dead people, instead of coffins. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In a quick motion I hoped no one behind would notice, I snuck them into the space between his side and the coffin’s plush silver lining. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe how many big vases and baskets of yard flowers had been brought in and set on tables and on the floor around the coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Colonel knelt down beside me and put his lips to the coffin and whispered, “I am sorry, Alaska. You deserved a better friend.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “It’s when the connective tissues between the hoof and the coffin bone are compromised and the coffin bone rotates toward the sole of the hoof.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The man takes the coffin from Dad and when he brings it into the room Mam moans, Oh, no, oh, God, no. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When the coffin was out of sight, my father put his arm around me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I counted the people—forty-six packed in a cage on wheels, maybe a rolling coffin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z At three o’clock his friends carry the coffin to the hearse. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “The entrance is behind the bottom coffin on the left,” Bod said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “And if that doesn’t work, they build a coffin that’s tall and wide enough so that the arm fits.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The wax dummy in the coffin had been molded in the former image of Sam Westing as he had looked fifteen years ago—not as he looked now. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z One day in the trading center, more than three hundred Gule Wamkulu appeared on the road carrying empty coffins, promising to fill them with anyone who didn’t support the Life President. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The drums marched ahead, and there was music on the fifes, and behind the men who carried the coffin walked the wife and two children.... The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z So soon after watching his mother’s coffin lowered into the ground, he’d felt an unshakable need to bury the body. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Premiums were only a few pennies each week, with death benefits furnishing little more than a coffin and a burial. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I stayed out back with my sisters, and Rufino, standing proud beside them, holding on to the coffins whenever we hit a bump. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Executive Mansion, the soldiers carried the president’s body in its temporary coffin to the second floor for an autopsy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to be off but my shoes had glued themselves to the floor and I had to hold on to the sides of the coffin to remain standing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Images of a flower-choked coffin, a silent congregation and Faith crying softly behind me flickered. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z With great effort they transferred the heavy coffin to the cemetery’s central vault, where two Pinkerton detectives guarded the body overnight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And then I started to translate our wonderful news for the Whitlaws. 't* fa ft We heard about Black Dog much later, when his coffin was shipped down to us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems profane somehow—the world clean, the air warm—when scores of young men lay cold in their coffins, waiting to return to the earth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The friends drape the coffin in a white cloth and surround it with masses of flowers, dahlias and sunflowers, “yellow flowers everywhere.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z August passed around a paper bag full of manna, and we scooped up handfuls and threw the seeds into the hole with the coffin, and my ears were filled with nothing but bee hum. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiny white coffin was set on a table. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The next time I go to the church is in a coffin.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You think I can’t make a coffin for my girl? I can. I know my way around a saw and a hammer. Now get up or I’m gonna throw that cat down a well.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Arthur put their bodies into sumptuous coffins—not sarcastically—and sent them to the Lord Mayor of Rome, instead of the tribute which had been demanded. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Darkness lay over the world like a coffin lid. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard the emperor himself will follow the coffin,” another woman said, “wearing mourning robes!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Matt could see the buried tomb in his mind’s eye—the broken wineglasses, El Patron’s portrait staring up from the coffin, the bodyguards laid out in their dark suits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course. An old coffin like this makes a wonderful hiding place.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A mosquito net hung around the coffin, and every time a new person came to see him, someone would have to lift netting away. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now is the time to run away to the woods, to hide in the trees until the patient is long gone and in another part of the Seam the hammers make the coffin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I am satisfied that Lucy’s body is not in that coffin; but that only proves one thing.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z We’ll be going in a minute, son, but when he goes to put his glass on the coffin after the long swallow I push it away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Another thing that surprised me was that the coffin was cracked in a few places, probably from the weight of all that dirt. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the exact size of the coffin. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Alas! Yes, my father,” replied I; “some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaped out of the coffin with ease, and where his feet touched the floor, the marble froze like craters of ice. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Mother and daughter walked alone behind the black coffin they arranged to buy with Jaime’s help. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They decided everything without her, what the flowers would be, what the music would be, what color coffin Warren would be placed in: walnut with a blue silk lining. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It was buried with her. That’s what I found out when I went back for the catfish supper. Mrs. Trace saw it on Dorcas’ hand when she stabbed her in the coffin. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When he died in 1844, forty thousand people viewed the coffin, and the funeral cortege stretched for two miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Emma shone her flame around as we walked among the troughs, trying to guess which might hold more than just the corpses of fish—but they all looked the same, just lidless coffins of ice. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I think coffins are old-fashioned,” she remarked, and made a disapproving face. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The earth was still mounded above his coffin. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Then my eyes wander to the white coffin next to them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Between the two of us, we push and drag and tug that coffin out the narrow door, upend it, turn it around, and put it in the room next door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I stood there trying to contain it as they brought Tod Clifton's coffin into the tower and slowly up the spiral stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister, Ruth, sat next to the coffin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I fanned fast so as not to read the words, but they had already brought to mind Great-Granmaw Tweedy, how at her first funeral she sat up in her coffin at the graveyard and screamed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I wondered what a crypt was like, if there were coffins standing there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We cautiously removed the heavy stone that safeguarded Rosa’s eternal rest and slid the white coffin from its niche. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m running around the house trying to find my wedding dress when I hear Mama call out to look in Papa’s coffin! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the minister recited the psalm about lying down in green pastures and walking through the shadow of the valley of death and fearing no evil. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z All the strength left my body, and I saw my own tombstone and an open grave, a coffin being lowered into the ground. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He looked respectfully at the coffin he’d opened the night before and murmured, “Good morning, and sorry again, ladies and gentlemen. I’m only doing this because we really need to.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Thalia backed Luke to the edge of a cliff, but still they fought on, next to the golden coffin. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Tiller thought about his father, lying cold on his bed, and his mother in her coffin. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Will drove a big Winton now, with a hood as long as a coffin and a powerful, panting mutter in its bowels. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t see Shotgun from there because the coffin lid blocked the view. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked at me mournfully, like he was already picking the kind of flowers I’d like best on my coffin. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z When he had sealed the old man’s coffin he set it upon two benches in the middle room and there it stood until the appointed day came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It’s getting dark now and the coffin seems whiter than ever in Dad’s arms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They held hands and knew that only die coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She later framed the cherished relic with dried flowers that had decorated Abraham Lincoln’s coffin at the White House funeral. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They jumped inside to hold the coffin in place as the truck rolled toward the graveyard. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z ‘Not even your father? Didn’t they take you to look at him in his coffin?’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “What happens when you touch a murdered man’s coffin? Tell me. You know all about such things.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The back doors of the hearse were opened and the coffin slid out. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He has the coffin on his lap and he presses it against his chest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mamá, Lupita knew, would have had to go to the moneylender to pay for a coffin and a new shirt. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In the center was an elegantly carved coffin with brass handles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They found it behind a coffin on the bottom shelf—a simple crawl space. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z But seeing each other in person over their father’s coffin goes a long way toward mending their relationship. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was still summer, but my hand felt ice cold as I gripped the knob to open the door, it was like opening my own coffin. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z She tries to buy them each a wooden coffin so they can be lowered into the ground with some dignity. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Another fence post, another coffin lid, another skeleton to apologize to, another fire to build. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They said ’bout the only way to get a white man away from his gun and holster was to take it off of him whilst he was at rest in his coffin. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z There was the low murmuring of a priest as the pallbearers began to lower the coffin from their shoulders. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I walked behind the coffin, the sound of my footsteps clinging to my heart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z After removing the dirt down to the level of the coffin lid, a section was dug around the base of the coffin so several people could stand next to it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z What had the girl seen when she opened that coffin lid? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Sourmelina had cut the ribbon between their wedding crowns and placed her husband’s inside the coffin, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Talking, talking, spinning a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They were as cramped and airless as coffins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Esperanza’s book had opened his eyes to the horrors of the empire El Patron had built, and he had seen for himself the low, dark dwellings of the eejits that were no better than coffins. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, father flew to Atlanta to attend the real funeral service, the one with the coffin and the crowd. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Mindless of the crowds, the service going on, I knelt beside the coffin, putting my hands on the smooth wood. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants—few was the number of relatives—the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Capricorn’s maid was sitting on a stone coffin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Behind us, Don Berto’s sons carried the coffin on their shoulders and didn’t set it down all the way there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was raining when the local undertaker met Henrietta’s coffin at the Clover depot and slid it into the back of a rusted truck. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Hands in his pockets and head bent, he walked like a man trudging up the hill behind a coffin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to move the coffin out of the Spokane Tribal Longhouse and set it on the fifty-yard line of the football field. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The congregation gathered around the coffin, and the yellow church swelled like a throat with the sound of sad singing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or a door. Behind one of the coffins.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Now Marcos had returned from his last journey in a coffin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Eleanor wore black, her mom said that she looked like she was going to a funeral—in a coffin. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Mother on her mat, not the most comfortable of beds, but a lot better than sleeping in prison or in a coffin! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Notice,” he said, “it is not square but long, as if it could hold a coffin.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His bird terrified in the smothering darkness of the box—it’s like a coffin—when suddenly one wall springs up and light pours in and he’s free to go. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Watching Gramma’s coffin get lowered into that grave just about broke me in half. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He gave the coffin lid a yank, sending another waft of odor floating up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Even without Mr. Underhill present, everyone could practically hear the final nail being hammered into a coffin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The coffin is closed by the time I get there. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’m about to tell him how the SIM overturned the coffin and stuck their knives in the lining. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z In fact, upon considering, I concluded that she had looked like a mud baby, lying on the white satin of her velvet coffin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound carried on the breezes while we huddled together and watched them lower May’s coffin into the ground. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day workers opened a double grave and filled this too with cement, then inserted Holmes’s coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Curtains, as vehicles often had back then, obscured the windows, and the car, a Buick, resembled a black coffin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I imagine,” said the darkness, in a feminine voice as soft as coffin lining, “that she meant Night, with a capital N. After all, I am the only one.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When I tossed a clump of dirt on the coffins, Papa put his arm around my shoulder. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa carried the coffins in the back of our wagon, and I followed behind with Uncle Henry’s wagon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some friends had worked through the night to finish the coffins. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers carried the coffin into the street and loaded it onto the back of a simple, horse-drawn wagon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come pay your respects, boys,” Johnny Cakes said, lifting the lid of one of the coffins. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Another structure was quickly assembled to store empty coffins and serve as a morgue. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Some pilots in other regiments called the Pe-2 a “flying coffin.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “That’s the body your daddy’s been writing letters to Washington about. The coffin never got dug up and shipped back to the States because I paid off a police captain to make sure it wouldn’t.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There Clarkson had to push his way through a crowd of vendors selling coffins and patent medicine cures. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She makes jokes that Tara might have quipped were she not inside the polished-wood coffin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When Gullah people die, babies in the family are passed over the coffin so the dead person won’t come back from the beyond to take them away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then they walked a slow, stiff march, like he was in a coffin and they were his pallbearers. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Charles’s body had been moved from the country coffin to an elegant city casket draped in black velvet and sprinkled with white blossoms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z August and Rosaleen finally sat down, but once I was up at the coffin, I found I couldn’t leave. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I take my place in the line as the dirt is shoveled onto the coffin. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z A single wild rose tossed farewell, bursts slowly, its petals drifting snowlike upon the reluctantly lowered coffin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The coffin has hit the fourth man in our hole on his outstretched arm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The coffin glowed, golden light filling the room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The sun beats down on the pallbearers as they carry the coffin from the hearse up the hill to the cemetery. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I wondered what would happen to the coffin of that other woman who had been put there by mistake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z If God said in plain language, “I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,” a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed down the shop to the coffin itself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Instead, he forced his eyes to trace the god’s form, starting with his black iron boots, each one as large as a coffin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I turned up the hill, approaching Stick's coffin, now sitting alone on the grass. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z All those Cold Sassy eyes moved past Grandpa and Miss Love and focused on the coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They took turns sleeping in a white pine coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I made the second call telling the cops that the drugs were in another coffin.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When they lowered Sophie Mol’s coffin into the ground in the little cemetery behind the church, Rahel knew that she still wasn’t dead. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After the funeral home men drove away, August and Rosaleen walked up to the coffin and stared down at May, but I hung back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As the coffin was loaded into the hearse, bee hum swelled and blended into the late-afternoon colors. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Grunting, the adzukulu carefully lowered the coffin with ropes, into the smaller compartment. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Toward them especially she leaned a little, telling in three words the full story of the stumped life in the coffin behind her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, the boy on the cover wasn’t much older than they were, but lying in that coffin, beaten beyond recognition, Emmett Till looked more like a monster than a human being. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The boys helped build the coffins and dig the graves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We dug, being careful not to scratch up the coffin, and then sifted the sand from the pencils. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning she had a carpenter called who took her measurements for the coffin as she stood in the parlor, as if it were for a new dress. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I’ve never sat on it before and feel I’m sitting on something reserved, like a throne or a coffin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung leaned down to him and said loudly in his ear, “Here am I and I will buy you a coffin second to my father’s only!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I look at the mannequin in the coffin. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It was a small wagon, a cart, just big enough to hold the coffin. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “I want mercy!” she shouted, and began walking toward the coffin, shaking her head from side to side as though somebody had asked her a question and her answer was no. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But Sammy is too busy peering into the coffin to notice. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z When I asked August why May was coming through the front door in her coffin, she said, “We’re going to sit with her till she’s buried.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There on the big table, covered with a black cloth with gold fringes, lay Rosa’s white coffin with its silver rivets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They set it down upon the platform and I looked at the shape of the cheap gray coffin and all I could remember was the sound of his name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “No coffins, no piled skulls in the corners; I don’t even think we have cobwebs . . . what a disappointment this must be for you,” he continued slyly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Mollie watched the glistening white coffin sink into the ground until the long, haunting wails were replaced by the sound of earth clapping against the lid. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “What could be more fitting than to make the condemned sleep on coffins?” he had said at the time, with a laugh. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The old GMC pickup was crushed around them like the shiny metal coffin the Veterans Office bought for each of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When I lifted my head, Father was looking down at me from the other side of the coffin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z When it came to feeling close to Granny, being in the garden was a sight better than sitting by her coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Using Holmes’s instructions, workmen in the employ of undertaker John J. O’Rourke filled a coffin with cement, then placed Holmes’s body inside and covered it with more cement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not because we were too old, but because Daddy didn’t have a coffin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry,” Mundín says, “I don’t think a bullet can get through that coffin!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Toulouse-Lautrec wants Theo to feel as if he's clasping his hand near the coffin. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I stood there alone; there was no microphone to support me, only the coffin before me upon the backs of its wobbly carpenter's horses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We had a lot of pine forests in East Texas then and the coffins were made of pine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then on heavy feet, made more ponderous by the guilt of the living viewing the dead, the adult church marched up to the coffin and back to their seats. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When they lowered the coffin into the hole, a cheer rose in the crowd and spread, ripplelike, until it was one cheer, until Olanna felt that everybody there had become one. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Still more returned in their coffins, a silent testimony to the harshness of their demon “hosts.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the coffin and the square pit of earth. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z His face took on a new intensity as he raised it above Martin’s rude coffin, squeezing it like he meant to drive his fingers through. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z After they removed the coffin to the street, the santeros broke a clay urn behind Felicia’s old De Soto, the funeral car, and sprinkled it with cold water to refresh her for the final journey. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet it would have comforted them all to see Papá in his coffin here in the house, with two candles at his head and two more at his feet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Bomb shelters are just family-size coffins,” she said like a know-it-all. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You see, imbecile? The coffin is too wide. I told you. Perhaps you would care to chip away the sides of this passage on the day of the burial!” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When I think about everything that happened, from when we buried the coffin to when I dug it up, I always think about how I could have told her the truth then. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don’t mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “She looks pretty,” said Jonas, standing at the side of Grandma’s coffin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We had just laid out Papa in his coffin on the table when a limousine pulls up to the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After the pastor finally finished talking, the pallbearers lowered the wooden coffin with my gran in it into the huge rectangle in the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Stacked up against its longer side is a high double wall of yellow, unpolished, brand-new coffins. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, Percy, but beware of him. He is more dangerous than ever. And the golden coffin is still with him, still growing in strength.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Both stood watch beside the simple wooden coffin and accompanied it to the cemetery on that unfortunate morning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged her off before Fang, so skinny and pale he looked like he’d just climbed out of a coffin, squeezed into the box-packed back seat and put an end to all conversation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then they started calling the Central Valley the Pacific Dust Bowl, and that put the last nail in the region’s coffin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z One night she’d have a nightmare about old Shotgun Cheatham sitting up in his coffin, and on the night after that she’d dream that Grandma’s big old tomcat was jumping at her. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z For three days and two nights we ride the ocean waves in the Gulf of Thailand, swaying and rocking as if in a wooden coffin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Shirred white lace hung on the walls behind him and in a canopy above the coffin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But when they took out the trunk bound in velvet and with silver corners, it was as if they had taken a coffin out of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The power of her shield was so great that his dragon-women bodyguards fled in a panic, dropping the golden coffin and leaving him alone. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “I fear the water will get my coffin,” she said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But worse was the creak as the coffin lid went down and the dry click when it closed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “That ain’t all. A little-girl skeleton was in the crypt, too, in a coffin with a glass top. Her bones were just so white and pretty—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Someone murmured about “the unexpected and sudden deaths of sixteen fine men during the night ” Earth pounded down on the coffin lids. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “The...the coffins. We wanted to see all the coffins,” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Apart from Grandma herself, I was the only one who’d seen her big old snaggletoothed tomcat streak out of the coffin and over the windowsill when she let fire. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z As she threw the lily back into the coffin, her feeble aim would send it flying directly into my whitened face. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They would be putting him in a coffin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The mahogany coffin was trailed by Hamilton’s gray horse, with his boots and spurs reversed astride the empty saddle. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A woman’s petite body wrapped in white was being carried in an open coffin high above the heads of the mourners. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The man called him over to where he stood on the other side of the coffin. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As Cliff and Fred lowered Henrietta’s coffin into her grave and began covering her with handfuls of dirt, the sky turned black as strap molasses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z His neck was hard as a fence post, and my legs wobbled and I had to grip the edge of the coffin with my other hand to keep from tilting over to one side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z So for the first time he rode on men’s shoulders and behind the coffin where O-lan was. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It drifted toward the coffin and began to shimmer, like a cloud of pure energy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A woman was sitting there in the dark, leaning back against something that looked suspiciously like a stone coffin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The coffin was a wonder, Daft Donald wrote on his computer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was little bitty, I used to close my eyes whenever I had to walk by that coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or, at any rate, had not thought of it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “He was waving his gun. A police car is a coffin. I had to react.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn wagon to the cemetery, and all the way I communed with death’s angels, questioning their choice of time, place and person. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We waited for him to return from the North and he did not return, so we had a funeral. We buried an empty coffin.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she told him he’d have to go to the undertaker tomorrow to bring the coffin back in a carriage. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Six magnificent white horses drawing a carriage carrying Abraham Lincoln’s coffin made their way up the avenue. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The coffin was much heavier than we had expected, and we had to ask the guard to help. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the coffin and the marchers, listening to them, and yet realizing that I was listening to something within myself, and for a second I heard the shattering stroke of my heart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “What happened about the coffin, Djo? Did you and those others pay for it all?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At his command, the mayor appeared at the services with four funeral wreaths, which he tried to place on the coffins, but the colonel ordered him into the street. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I will always be grateful to the parish priest who forced a mortician to remove an elaborate arrangement of flowers from a coffin: ‘Don’t hide it!’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Alacran said they were all supposed to toast El Patron at the same time and then smash their glasses on his coffin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The space behind the coffin was tight, but she went through the hole into the hill and pulled the coffin back as best she could. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z On the floor in front of the coffin lie his folding stool, his easel, and his brushes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Guenever was twenty-two as she sat at her petit point and thought of Lancelot She was not half-way to her coffin, not ill even, and she only had six senses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A few moments before they were to close the coffin lid on Johnny, Katie came out to the kitchen to the children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The club’s coffin, for example, had once been used to transport the body of a member who had committed suicide. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And he took a rag and began to buff the side of his dusty coffin with it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She looked inside, and Doña Cony and Mami stepped closer to the coffin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As the mourners turned their backs to the coffin to await its burial, Pinmei could not help stealing a look. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Nor did he wish to endure the rituals of a hanging: being bound and blindfolded, parading past his own coffin and open grave, climbing the steps of the scaffold. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding on to my hand, she watched the coffin being lowered into the earth in the provisional spot we had obtained. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, indeed! An urn perhaps, a jam jar, but no coffin.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The mourners kept their distance from the coffin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For a time I was safe, isolated; for a time I owned the space around me, though it was scarcely more than that of a coffin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Lying on his back, staring at a ceiling he could not see, Ben felt discarnate, a voiceless body buried accidentally, smelling the top of the coffin for the first time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Staring at the inside of the locker, like looking into an upright coffin, he felt as though someone was trying to obliterate him, remove all traces of his existence, his presence in the school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Byrd and Clayton sat in the very front pew of the church, across from Cool Papa Byrd’s long, polished oak coffin. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The pallbearers stood in a dark row behind the coffin, like a chorus of elders in a tragedy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Because she only knew of one carpenter who would put Cari’s coffin before the dozens of others. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Nel went to the funeral parlor, but was so shocked by the closed coffin she stayed only a few minutes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “It’s one of those Japanese prank shows. They put this guy in a coffin with a bunch of dead squid and leave him there.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I did that once, went in for a pint and they robbed that little coffin out of the bloody carriage. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This time tomorrow I’ll be staring at him in a coffin. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In the photograph and from what Violet could remember from the coffin, the girl needed her ends cut. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, good. Because a coffin...that’s more trouble than I need right now.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The pine coffin that held Miss Mary Finch—wearing her best dress, with her hair washed clean and combed—bounced in the back when the wagon wheels hit a rut. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She beckoned him over and patted the lid of the coffin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As soon as the procedure was completed, the coffin was covered with the lava-infiltrated earth and a dusting of some residual ash that had drifted to Selfoss from the recently erupted volcano. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not what I mean. She sat up in the coffin. Then she disappeared. Didn’t you see that?” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Standing at the coffin, looking up at August, I had a powerful urge to tell her right then. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he and his three sons carried in the coffin, escorted by my grandfather. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was 2:56 when the shovel touched the coffin. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Standing at either end of the long, handsome bronze coffin were two big, dark policemen, mostly looking straight ahead, but moving their lips when some viewer tarried. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She made for the coffin, stared at the bank white gauze, and said, “Don’t he look natural?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Happy they kept the lid closed on her coffin, because she had long ago stopped looking like herself. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z How many cats had we buried over the years in shoe-box coffins? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At the coffin store the owner and the colmado-man look at each other in a funny way, but I used to this by now. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of the coffin, they scratched a note: “Do not open.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Hers feels icy like it did in her coffin. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z But the Professor never stopped for a moment; he sawed down a couple of feet along one side of the lead coffin, and then across, and down the other side. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He had caused the coffin of O-lan to be brought from the temple and it was put on the ground to await the old man’s burial first. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I just couldn’t face the row of small coffins. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The purpose is to protect the deceased from the falling dirt, or really, to keep the family from seeing the falling dirt land on the coffin. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He thought of his mother dead in the coffin. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "I cannot swear to it, no. I did not examine the body in the coffin." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Why bother with the coffin, the awning or any of it if they were just going to dump him, shovel the dirt in, go home? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He didn’t notice he was talking as if Granny was in her kitchen, fixing to cook us some grits, instead of laid out in a coffin in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She saw her chalk-white and cold, her beautiful purple eyes shut, lying in her coffin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For weeks we bought and collected wooden pencils, until we had enough to fill the coffin. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The box was a long rectangle made of wood, roughly the dimensions of a coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Gullah people die, babies in the family get passed over the coffin so the dead person won’t come back from the beyond to take them away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z An empty row down the middle of the room is lined on each side with what looks like at least thirty white coffins with glass-domed tops. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The white gauze was black rags now, and Grandma had blown the lid clear of the coffin. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The coffin lid burned well, and there was enough of it to warm Lyra’s milk, but only just. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z So there was a cemetery where the coffins were temporarily buried. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As if I were ordering my coffin, to sit in before I died. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The coffin was covered with a mosquito net. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They slept in coffins all day and came out only at night. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Rough coffins come together, and a new round of digging begins; graves open up in rows. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I touched the side of the coffin one last time and returned to stand by Raheem. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She told Chucha civilized people had to sleep on beds, coffins were for corpses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The pallbearers lowered the coffin into the grave with long, creaking straps. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Everyone was waiting for me now, so I crouched down and grabbed a big handful of dirt and sprinkled it onto the coffin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z On each coffin, Lyra was interested to see, a brass plaque bore a picture of a different being: this one a basilisk, this a serpent, this a monkey. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “If this horse keeps working, his coffin bone will rotate until it punctures his sole, and then you’ll lose him,” I say unequivocally. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “She had the embroidered bundle put into the coffin with him...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z One man alone could have carried El Patron, but the coffin was so encrusted with gold that six could barely lift it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When we are old and ill, and particularly in the coffin, It is no trouble to behave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When I reached my tiny plastic coffin, I crawled inside and collapsed on the mattress, facedown, in the same exact position as the night before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps they thought the boy’s mother would have a quiet funeral and leave the coffin unopened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Only the coffin and the first couple rows were hit by their yellow glow. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They dressed him in his Army uniform, and we went in and looked in the coffin. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Petra Cotes helped him pack his clothes and bade him farewell without shedding a tear, but she forgot to give him the patent leather shoes that he wanted to wear in his coffin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was a basket woven from pliant cottonwood branches, so that as the weight of the body inside shifted the coffin seemed to groan. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How Mr. Stonecrop had hired men from the shipyards to dig up the markers, then hack through the frozen ground to the coffins—or what was left of them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Bod saw the chaos on the floor of the Frobisher mausoleum, the fallen coffins with their contents scattered across over the aisle. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He stood up suddenly and lengthened his arms toward the minister, the coffin and his wife’s corpse. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Guardians sent a hauler to remove the foul body, but the driver couldn’t get it into the coffin by himself. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He saw the chaplain reading from his open prayer-book; the wooden coffin, the hastily dug grave. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When the family left the gravesite, followers of Malcolm X would not let the coffin be covered by the white gravediggers who had stood a little distance away, waiting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In a moment they would call the men, father and son, to lift the woman into her coffin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Billy sat in the back of the jiggling coffin. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had followed a few coffins up the hill from the church to the cemetery, but because Momma said I was tender-hearted I had never been forced to sit through a funeral service. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the coffin was pried open in the presence of the appropriate authorities, it was found to contain a bag of sand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He puts the lid on the coffin and screws it down. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z From there she could see everything except the coffin. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Shady and Jinx opened the coffin and inspected the dozens of bottles resting in a bed of straw so as not to clank against each other. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In one corner stood a black iron box the size of several coffins. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z This was where generations of Masters had been buried, each in his lead-lined oak coffin in niches along the stone walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Our main job is to make the dead body and the coffin. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He was going to supply the coffin, the hearse, which carried the coffin, and two limousines. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “To open the coffin. You shall yet be convinced.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Nigel’s gone to get a coffin. A decent one, not just a homemade box. And he’ll hire a minister to come out tomorrow.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Looks like you were right,” Shady said, sitting down on the coffin like a balloon gone flat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For some reason I felt ashamed looking at them, and I ended up staring at the coffin instead, which somehow seemed a whole lot easier. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It liked to killed Mama, those feed sacks, but Miss Love acted like they were the usual thing for a coffin liner. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And several yards behind, marching beside the young men floating the coffin upward, I looked into the face of the old man who had aroused the song and felt a twinge of envy. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest recites the Latin prayers and sprinkles the coffin with holy water. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Frost is already whitening the fresh earth on the grave and I think of Theresa cold in the coffin, the red hair, the green eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Privately Ranofer wished lid, coffin and Lordship in the tomb already, but he refrained from saying so. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Albert’s coffin, covered in a deep pile of white lilies, was carried in a nineteenth-century glass-enclosed hearse, rumoured to have come from the Queen’s own stables. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z At the funeral, Gertrude, wrapped in black veils, followed her husband's coffin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Laura’s cream-colored coffin was interred in the small non-denominational cemetery on the edge of town: unfenced, a hilly woodland meadow filled with black granite and white marble headstones. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The coffin floated like a heavily loaded ship in a channel, winding its way slowly above the bowed and submerged heads. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The undertaker came to Down House and laid Charles out in the coffin on his wheeled cart. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “The coffin flipped over, and she slid down the whole flight. They were all horrified, but she looked entirely unaffected!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They dug in one spot, then another, moving each time their shovels hit the coffins of unknown relatives buried with no markers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps the Fanbearer had paid a great sum for that red granite coffin with the alabaster lid. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z We carried the small brown coffin shoulder high, intoning African liberation songs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When the inside part of the funeral was over the undertaker shut the coffin. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him that Gram made it back to Bybanks, but unfortunately she came in a coffin. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The next morning a simple wooden coffin arrived from Kasungu and the body was delicately placed inside, yet I never gathered the courage to enter the house myself. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins French Lick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to get out of this coffin. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The doctor himself had to stand the expense of the leaden box which went into the coffin of Josh Billings. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The society set about purchasing boards and constructing coffins. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Visible blemishes on the surface of the Sun seemed to be yet another nail in the coffin of Aristotelian heavenly perfection. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And a second Miss Drummond, shrieking, was nailed into a coffin and thrust into the raw earth under the floor. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Resa fixed the flickering candle to the coffin with a little of its own wax. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “And we bought eighty shares of a coffin manufacturing firm for fifty cents a share.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z “It’s like the ones on the coffins,” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “They were gathering cottonwood branches and weaving a coffin. That proves she was a bruja! A bruja cannot be buried in a casket made of pine or piñón or cedar.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we passed a coffin, grave- less, on the floor—then a whole stack of them, leaned against a wall like discarded moving boxes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Now I could see the cops eyeing us and looking at the coffin and one of them was talking on his radio. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After work, Jonas helped the man who wound his watch make a coffin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Alyce asked the kitchen maid skinning a pig in the manor yard, the laundress boiling great kettles of goose fat for soap, the carpenters fashioning a coffin for Old Ned, who had died that morning. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I would catch her sitting beside the coffin leaning her forehead against it, and you could tell she was doing more than saying good-bye to May. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Pilate reached out her hand and placed three fingers on the edge of the coffin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth rattled and bounced on the coffin lid. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Another thing that surprised me was how the coffin wasn’t locked or even nailed shut. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, if Barack Obama had been elected president back then, I would have argued that his election marked the nation’s triumph over racial caste—the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Got orders from headquarters. They makin’ coffins fuh all de white folks. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The cinema man's lips twitch numbers as he paces down the pavement, slow as a coffin bearer. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Those with husbands had folded themselves into starched coffins, their sides bursting with other people’s skinned dreams and bony regrets. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "He looked asleep, like he did in the coffin. He looked like a wax dummy." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z But all of that fog and greasy glass and snow disappeared when they lowered my sister’s coffin into the grave. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z They were rolling straight over our valley, sealing us in like a coffin lid. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the curtain was a closed coffin displayed on a polished wood platform. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But then with the black-draped coffin lying in state among them—inescapably reminding them—they felt the dark night of slavery settling once more upon them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He places Eugene in the coffin and steps back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The men set Miss Mary’s coffin on the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, every grave has a hidden compartment at the bottom—usually a smaller cubbyhole carved into the side of the pit—where the coffin slides in. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Another one hooked my mom, and we were forced up the aisle, funneled toward the flower-stacked coffin at the front of the church. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The man with Dad lifts his pint and takes a long swallow and when he puts his glass down there’s a hollow sound in the coffin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The next day, Karl came back with a small, sound coffin he had built himself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It seemed a shame to plan on covering up a fine coffin with them, but they were sure pretty. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The closer I get to the coffin, the hotter it is. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z But the gauze that hung down over the open coffin moved. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z With most carpenters gone from the city, the supply of coffins soon ran out. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It will help to show what Granny meant to Grandpa if I point out that it wasn’t a cheap homemade coffin she was in. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z People have places to go and things to do and the new episodes come on in half an hour, and besides, they are all much too polite to notice that the coffin is empty. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z There was an instance where five whites charged $43 to put a corpse in a coffin and haul it downstairs to a waiting wagon. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She swung it wildly around the room, skimming Mrs. Wilcox’s hat, and took aim at the gauze that draped the yawning coffin. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He stretched out in his bunk, which resembled a coffin - a polished mahogany frame, brass railings, blood-red velvet pillows and blankets. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Turned out he’d been cheating folks for years, shorting their coffins and burial plots by six inches to a foot while charging full price. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They were golden, the same color as the coffin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We were about to turn eleven years old, and that was too old to get passed over the coffin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The first time, you remember, she jumped out of the coffin just fore they were fixin’ to nail the lid. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In the dimly flickering light, they saw rows of shelves, with coffins neatly placed on them, and the wood of the coffins was perfectly dry, as he found when he touched one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He’d heard the mill men tell how the two halves, not even fitted together, were placed cut side down, skin side up, in the coffin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t want to see their father in the coffin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My father and his brothers then lifted the coffin and placed it inside their friend Kachiluwe’s truck. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z It was fifteen minutes to midnight, when the dead—according to Celia—threw off their coffin lids like so many blankets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was buried in the local churchyard in a coffin, it was said, made of tin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z As expressionless as the time she was a store mannequin, she sat in the wagon on a sawed-off chair, bracing herself with one hand on the driver’s plank and the other on the coffin box. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I hear a handful of dirt hit the hollow sounding coffin, and I bury my face in Dad’s side and cry quietly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When he again lifted the lid off Lucy’s coffin we all looked—Arthur trembling like an aspen—and saw that the body lay there in all its death-beauty. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The others jest too, unpleasant jests, but what else can a man do?—The coffins are really for us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chop, chop, chopping for hours through the ice! Just so they can throw in the coffin! The emperor will do anything to get her to marry him.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Dad tells Grandma it sThursday and he has to go to the Labour Exchange for the dole and then down to the undertaker to bring the mourning carriage and the coffin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was the first of the underground chambers that stretched all the way to El Patron’s coffin and his attendants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he made assurance of Lucy’s coffin. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Tom Grieves built a realistic-looking black coffin out of a packing case. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw his partner of sixteen years stretched out in the coffin, Kenneth’s eyes welled up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z |
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