coffin
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Traveling with a coffin and a caged panther, Claire hasn’t come alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The London audience had just been treated to a Traitors-themed musical performance in his honour, which included fellow cast member Paloma Faith emerging from a coffin, when he was given the surprise award.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“You’re sleeping in a coffin for nine months. That would drive me crazy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Princess Ita's coffin also held an especially ornate dagger.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
“She’s liable to set up in her coffin and take roll.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Inside, I do a double-take: the men working inside are hammering together wooden coffins.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The earliest burials were generally spaced apart from one another, and the bodies were placed inside coffins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Tributes on Chinese social media revived Zhu’s most quotable lines, including his vow that he had prepared “100 coffins, 99 for corrupt officials and one for myself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Women leaned from apartment windows, filming the march on their phones, while others scattered rice and rose petals over the men carrying the coffins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
So there was a cemetery where the coffins were temporarily buried.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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