confined
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Legend also insists that he buried a White Lady, presumably coffined in its shaker, inside a wall of the Savoy, like a time capsule.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
We could not weep o'er the coffined clay If a lovelier life it should never borrow.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
His favorite tree, beneath which his coffined figure lay at his funeral, was injured by the fire and has since been removed.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
He'll be shrouded and coffined by this time—the light 'ill not be lang on that face.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Again we gathered around the coffined form of old Matt.
From Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer by Optic, Oliver
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"Efrén Divided" by Ernesto Cisneros, Chapters 1–5
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CTE Construction ("Core Curriculum: Introductory Craft Skills,") Vocabulary from Module One
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