coffined

He was wild with fear, and he thrust out with the point of his paddle to fend off the coffined alii that seemed bent to come on board.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

The people of Cho-Sen are fanatical ancestor-worshippers, and that old pirate of a booty-lusting Dutchman, with his four cunies, in far Kyong-ju, did no less a thing than raid the tombs of the gold-coffined, long-buried kings of ancient Silla.

Chapter 15 2010

I felt panic rise from my stomach to my chest, the acute anxiety of not knowing my father anymore, of being coffined, in this black cab, this hearse, taking us past all the street signs: food store, bank, leftover generic storefronts from Communism, through the hilly dark in a country where nobody spoke our language.

The Adults Alison Espach 2011

I felt panic rise from my stomach to my chest, the acute anxiety of not knowing my father anymore, of being coffined, in this black cab, this hearse, taking us past all the street signs: food store, bank, leftover generic storefronts from Communism, through the hilly dark in a country where nobody spoke our language.

The Adults Alison Espach 2011

The opener is James Guthrie's A Funeral Service in the Highlands: a frieze of black figures against a plangent white sky, the minister raising a hand in blessing on the left, a dark blank of a shape standing for the coffined body.

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 – review Laura Cumming 2010

Or had it twisted and tumbled through the air, bouncing off the rock face, with Victor coffined in canvas and metal, flailing impotent arms, adding his screams to the cry of the gulls?

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

And one dead man lying in a mortuary chapel here until he could be coffined and disposed of wherever his family, if he had family, desired to bury him.

A River So Long 2010

I closed the door and felt immediately confined, unwanted, coffined.

From The Window Dave Hingsburger 2007

You ought to realize that President Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any circumstances.

Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows 2006

Illumined by the coffined dead, the scene reveals the grisly content of many a folk tale or song — murder, execution, infanticide, parricide — along with the bloody implements by which these violent acts were accomplished.

National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006