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  • Two years ago, to honor the film's 40th anniversary, Mrs. Smith dressed up as a zombie, wore coffin-shaped earrings, and rode with the mayor in the back of a pickup truck bearing a cardboard sign: "Evans City original ghoul, Ella Mae Smith."

    Elderly Zombies Win the Undying Loyalty of Their Fans Clare Ansberry 2010

  • He walked around slowly, passing the giant coffin-shaped dais upon which the frozen elephants stood like great bronze statues, estimating the dimensions of the hall in his mind.

    Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing Jay Kirk 2010

  • Mrs. Sabo says when Giltine walks past, mirrors splinter, beekeepers find coffin-shaped honeycombs in the hives, and people dream of teeth being pulled.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • Mrs. Sabo says when Giltine walks past, mirrors splinter, beekeepers find coffin-shaped honeycombs in the hives, and people dream of teeth being pulled.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • His garden was looking good, and I strolled by perhaps more often that necessary, keeping an eye peeled for suspicious coffin-shaped holes being dug after dark.

    BARBIE AT THE TABLE • by Sarah Black 2008

  • SUSAN rushes round pulling manuscripts out of PUNDY's sporran, SKINT's cauldron, MINX's handbag, MARIE's coffin-shaped suitcase, and she and DEBI hurl them at the black cloud whirling round the table.

    Friends Maxine 2008

  • Jonathan Gold writes about Lardo -- "slabs of pure, white hog lard cured for months in special coffin-shaped basins hewn from marble" -- in the latest LA Weekly.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • And I don't care of those are coffin-shaped, they're chocolate and that's all that matters!

    Sunday Sweets: The Undead Wed Jen 2009

  • I love the one with coffin-shaped tiers, and the spiderweb "rubbery" icing.

    Sunday Sweets: The Undead Wed Jen 2009

  • Pushindaisies -- "a mortuary novelty shop" -- has a great selection of macabre gifts, from coffin-shaped golf putters to tombstone-rubbing wax to skull-shaped cupcake moulds.

    Boing Boing 2007

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