What is "casket"

Usage examples of "casket".

Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.

Then the aumbries of the most famous monasteries were thrown open, cases were unlocked and caskets were undone, and volumes that had slumbered through long ages in their tombs wake up and are astonished, and those that had lain hidden in dark places are bathed in the ray of unwonted light.

While MiLady was doing this, Bitsy the fairy was holding onto the candlestick and watching over the rim of the casket.

After the usual commonplaces had passed and we had indulged in some double meanings which made us laugh and her look thoughtful, I told her she was pretty as a little love, and that I felt sure that her mind, as beautiful as its casket, could harbour no prejudices.

She assured me that her master would not notice the loss of the casket, and that, if he did, he would never think of accusing her.

Snatching a gold key off a nail in the side of a bookcase containing bottles of pickled frogs, I gained access to a dimly lit storage area full of packaged caskets and cases of formaldehyde, sodium chloride, glycerine, methyl-engenol and eosin dye, plus other paraphernalia relating to the funeral arts.

Away beyond those ever feebler flames rose dark steps crowned by what could only be the casket of someone great and important.

The key turned, and I flung back the lid, and uttered an exclamation, and no wonder, for inside the ebony case was a magnificent silver casket, about twelve inches square by eight high.

The ginseng aroma made my eyes water, and I turned the casket upside down.

No doubt he must have noticed that the casket had been opened, but he had said nothing about it.

In my pocket I had placed a casket containing a dozen exquisite rings.

I took him to my room, and shewed him my escritoire, my casket, and my will.

The Maharanee, Nama related, had sent to Atma Singh the gold which she carried, in token of her approval of her loyal servitor, and also a box of onyx which she prayed him to open and read words contained therein, retaining meanwhile possession of the casket and its contents until further tidings.

It was during the third month of digging, just prior to the new concrete foundations being poured into their moulds that the little casket, wrapped in an oilskin cloth and several layers of mildewed woven straw, was unearthed.

I made up my mind that nothing of this should pass into the hands of the Genoese, and told the mad woman that we must trust entirely in Paralis for the method of consecration, which must be begun by our placing each packet in a small casket made on purpose.