Aunt Laura gave me a shoe box for a coffin, and some pink tissue paper to wrap his poor little body in.
The coffin was taken into the parlour and the Murrays as mourners sat stiffly and decorously all round it, Emily among them, pale and prim in her black dress.
Her father's coffin stood in the centre of the small room which had been a bedroom.
No useless coffin enclosed his breast but he reposed in a neat cardboard box.
Earnshaw and I, the sexton, and six men to carry the coffin, comprehended the whole attendance.
I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it.
I observed once, indeed, something like exultation in his aspect: it was just when the people were bearing the coffin from the house.
Linton's funeral was appointed to take place on the Friday following her decease; and till then her coffin remained uncovered, and strewn with flowers and scented leaves, in the great drawing-room.
and laid by guineas, all full weight, for him, as he'll know who to respect when I'm laid in my coffin.
In chuckling over the vexations he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand, he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid stagnant presence, and so far as he was preoccupied with a future life, it was with one of gratification inside his coffin.
Coffin drops.
Were she even to descend into the family vault where her ashes were supposed to slumber, were she to behold the coffin in which they were said to be enclosed—what could it avail in such a case?
In the parlor lay Matthew Cuthbert in his coffin, his long gray hair framing his placid face on which there was a little kindly smile as if he but slept, dreaming pleasant dreams.
And you've got to swear on a coffin, and sign it with blood.
Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull woody accent, and within another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground.
The move effectively puts the final nail in the coffin of a product that was launched in 2011 to challenge Facebook Inc.
another nail in your coffin ,.
Equally, when Travis Kalanick banged another nail in his own coffin by getting caught on camera yelling at an Uber driver, the headlines were about his swearing.
He was so poor that he didn'teven have enough money for a coffin, and for Chinese people, the worst possible fate is to die and not get buried.
Hong Kong is well-known for having some of the world's tiniest and most expensive homes, but one landlord is offering a modern twist on its famous "coffin apartments".
