What is "coffins"

Usage examples of "coffins".

The Brown of coffins was as lachrymose and gently morbid as the most bereaved widow could wish to encounter.

Charlie, my boy, it is our business to provide corpses with coffins, not to inquire into their conduct.

Something else struck him as odd: The four coffins were covered with dust and cobwebs.

Gravestones had been smashed with sledge hammers, coffins had been dug up and the bones scattered about.

I saw a cabinet on the far side of the room next to the window, so I made my way though the coffins and approached it.

How can I explain the discovery in opened coffins of fresh appearing bodies, bathed in blood and gore?

Calais until dawn, we retired to our coffins to await our next awakening.

We workers in woods make bridal bedsteads and card-tables, as well as coffins and hearses.

Ten minutes later the last of our cargo was aboard and all that remained were the three boxed coffins on the back of the old truck.

And it seemed very likely, for he stood there perfectly straight, almost at attention, his hands loosely by his sides, as the three crated coffins were hoisted inboard.

Now I know why your old man was so damned anxious to inspect the hold not to pay his respects to the dead men in their coffins, but to see how his men were placed for smashing their way out of the crates.

What was she going to do with those boxed coffins when she found them, carry them back across the floor, one under each arm?

The tomb like depths of the hold, the coffins, the lanterns, the feeling of apprehension and hurry and absorbed concentration that lent an evilly conspiratorial air as the elements were there.

That meant, I supposed, that the fusing of the auxiliary time bombs in the other two coffins was complete.

The coffins were not immediately recognisable as such: in the final gesture of the consummate actor paying the minutest attention to the last detail in his role, he had draped them with three stars and stripes.