" Then Ambrose brought Beltane into his humble dwelling where was a coffer wrought by his own skilful fingers; and from this coffer he drew forth a suit of triple mail, wondrously fashioned, beholding the which, Beltane's eyes glistened because of the excellence of its craftsmanship.

" Then Ambrose brought Beltane into his humble dwelling where was a coffer wrought by his own skilful fingers; and from this coffer he drew forth a suit of triple mail, wondrously fashioned, beholding the which, Beltane's eyes glistened because of the excellence of its craftsmanship.

" Half-an-hour later, having warned the women to their roomsordering a variety of disinfecting measures in which Martial science excelled while they were needed thereI opened the door of the death chamber to those who carried in a coffer hollowed out of a dark, exceedingly dense natural stone, and half-filled with a liquid of enormous destructive power.

Then I lifted tenderly the lifeless form, laid it on cushions arranged therein, kissed the lips, and closed the coffer.

We carried the coffer into the apartment where this worked to heat the stove, to keep the lights burning, to raise, warm, and diffuse the water through the house, and perform many other important household services.

Two strong bars of conducting metal were attached to the apparatus, and fitted into two hollows of the coffer.

After a few moments the coffer was opened, and Davilo, carefully gathering a few handfuls of solid white material, something resembling pumice stone in appearance, placed them in a golden chest about twelve inches cube, which was then soldered down by the heat derived from the electric power.

" Here Zulve, approaching, gave into my hand the Signet unclasped from her husband's arm ere the coffer was closed upon his form.

Three compartments divided the coffer.

Our utmost united endeavors served only to disturb the coffer very slightly in its bed.

During his childhood he haunted the old church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where he was fascinated by the mediæval air of the place, and especially by one old chest, known as Canynge's coffer, containing musty documents which had been preserved for three hundred years.

Chest, coffer, sack, are heaped aboard.

When I had paid my examination and registration fees the coffer was absolutely empty, and though, no doubt, a medical diploma containsto use Johnson's phrasethe potentiality of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, there is a vast difference in practice between the potential and the actual.

To ask me to shun the fight like a coward; to ask me to go and hide in the rear-ranks in a hotel with everything locked up, or a Coffer Pallis with nothing to steal.

The girl uttered an angry exclamation as the old woman seized it, and after examining it by the candle light, placed it in a small iron coffer.

To Vienna Henceto the Emperorkneel before the throne Take a full coffer with theesay aloud, Thou didst but wish to prove thy fealty; Thy whole intention but to dupe the Swede. ILLO.

But fourteen years later, after several victories over the Persians, the Greek emperor, Heraclius, retook Jerusalem, and re-entered Constantinople in triumph with the coffer containing the sacred relic.

A spirit that had been hid, since the world began, in a coffer of metal and acid,the genie of the lightning,shut down, as by the seal of Solomon in the Arabian tale, was let loose but the other day, and commenced to do the bidding of man.

" [Illustration: Marriage Coffer in Carved Walnut.

[Illustration: Marriage Coffer, Carved and Gilt with Painted Subject.

In the sixteenth century, metal workers reached a point of excellence which has never been surpassed, and those marvels of mountings in steel, iron and brass were produced in Italy and Germany, which are far more important as works of art, than the plain and unpretending productions of the coffer maker, which are their raison d'etre.

The illustration on the following page is from an example in the same museum, shewing a different decoration, the oval plaques of figures and coats of arms being of carved ivory let into the surface of the coffer.

[Illustration: Wooden Coffer.

Of seventeenth century work, there is also a fine coffer, richly inlaid with ivory, of the best description of Persian design and workmanship of this period, which was about the zenith of Persian Art during the reign of Shah Abbas.

The latter resembles a long square coffer, and is upheld by caryatides, which in a bowed position hold their hands above their heads in support, and are making the most hideous grimaces.