coffin
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“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
In 1997, the nation's hearts went out to the two young boys, then aged 15 and 12, as they accompanied Diana's coffin through hushed London streets at her funeral.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
A number of stories are tied to the sensational mystery that arises when Eliza May’s coffin is opened and found to be empty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“The earrings are worth enough to buy me a coffin and a burial, wherever I die.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Investors went ga-ga over industrial agglomerations for tin, oil, electric utilities, flour, furniture, copper, pottery, leather, borax, oatmeal, even coffins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The earliest burials were generally spaced apart from one another, and the bodies were placed inside coffins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Dozens of mourners gathered in front of 44 coffins at the emotional service, as police announced that the death toll had risen to 46.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 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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