coffin
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It has now been confirmed that her coffin will be brought to her Mumbles home on 15 August at 15:30 BST, with people invited to "pay their respects" by lining Newton Road at 15:15.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In another, a grey-haired woman laid one hand atop the coffin while she dabbed her eyes with a tissue.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
At the end of the day, it’s a “legally viable way to get a fresh start,” Judge said — not a nail in someone’s financial coffin.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Cinema seems to spring up wherever Mr. McElwee looks—in one quietly virtuoso sequence from just before his surgery, he films a neighbor assembling a large flower box and imagines it’s his own coffin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
In fact, she was staring at the ice coffin, her mouth hanging open slightly.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
At the rear of the hospital, grey coffins with gilded bas-reliefs emerged before the cameras of dozens of journalists.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
In Ituri this means that coffins are used - with the body bag placed inside.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Though concentrated, it’s situated among newly refreshed spaces containing lavishly ornamented mummy coffins, carved grave stelae, canopic jars, tomb wall reliefs and the preserved body of a woman named Gautseshenu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Trump, wearing a black overcoat, saluted as flag-draped coffins were removed from the back of a transport plane, according to photographs released by the White House said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
The most seriously ill were taken by cart to Bush Hill; the dead were placed in coffins and hauled to the graveyards.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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