There also are the places where Subhadra, the last of his converts, attained to Wisdom and became an Arhat; where in his coffin of gold they made offerings to the World-honored one for seven days, where the Vajrapâni laid aside his golden club, and where the eight kings divided the relics of the burnt body: at all these places were built topes and monasteries, all of which are now existing.

Till 1220 when all was ready, the body of St Thomas lay in an iron coffin in the crypt, and the great feast and day of pilgrimage in his honour was the day of his martyrdom, December 29, so incredibly honourable as being within the octave of the Nativity of Our Lord.

"Will Bwana Ovens make a fine box for my son?" "I will make a coffin for your son if you will let the prisoners go free," said Mr. Ovens.

The next day when the funeral was held, a cow was killed and put in the coffin with Etim instead of the people who were thought to have worked witchcraft against him.

She dragged the coffin to the grave and buried it.

It resembled a great coffin on wheels.

One old man, with hair as white as snow,one of the original fugitive slaves who had founded the settlement,bent over the coffin at its head, and clung with both hands to its edge, swaying back and forth above it, crying aloud, till the sexton was obliged to loosen his grasp and lead him away by force.

The people were dying of the unaccustomed food which mocked their prayer for daily bread, and were carried to the graveyard in a coffin from which the benevolent strangers who had come to their relief had to drop them, like dead dogs, that there might be a covering for the next corpse in its turn.

And now this unhappy prince went to take a last view of his dear wife, and as he looked on his Thaisa, he said, "A terrible child-bed hast thou had, my dear; no light, no fire; the unfriendly elements forgot thee utterly, nor have I time to bring thee hallowed to thy grave, but must cast thee scarcely coffined into the sea, where for a monument upon thy bones the humming waters must overwhelm thy corpse, lying with simple shells.

And carry forth thy dead unto the marge Of the great sea; bear it into the flood, Braving the cold that creepeth to thy heart, And lay thy coffin as an ark of hope Upon the billows of the infinite sea.

Nor were many hours allowed to pass when, decayed and defaced as it was, it was consigned to a coffin without Mr. Dodds being able to bring his resolution to the sticking point of trying to recognise in the confused mass of muscle and bone, forming what was once a face, the lineaments of her who had been once his pride, and now, by his own act, had become his shame and condemnation in the sight of Heaven.

Then, borne in an open coffin by four young officers of his staff, with bands of crape on their arms and knots of crape on their swords, was the dead officer, an old, gray-haired general, dressed in the full uniform of the Greek army, with his browned, wrinkled, deep-lined hands crossed over his sword.

One of my mother's babies died and Master went to Little Rock on a horse and carried back a little coffin under his arm.

On that day so furious a tempest raged that the friends decided not to follow the coffin through the driving rain and sleet.

It is also their custom to prepare the dying man's coffin before his eyes; and what is still more incredible, when they see him about to render up his last sigh, they place a bit of moistened 'tapa' in his mouth, whilst the fingers of some friend are employed in closing the lips and nostrils!"

When it grew late, six tall men came in bearing a coffin between them.

"When we get to the grave the doughboys set down the coffin beside it and all forms in a circle with me and the widow facin' each other.

We all remember the solemnly pathetic and passionate beauty of Seraphael's burial by night, with the music winding up among the stars; but did it in reality exceed the actual progress of the dead Master's ashes from city to city, met in the twilight and the evening by music, gray-headed Capellmeisters receiving him with singing in the open midnight, and fresh songs being flung upon his coffin like wreaths with the sunrise?

Her clothing was a shroud; she lay in a coffin among other coffins in a damp and hideous vault.

In the earliest morning she was borne in an open coffin out of the castle, and the heavenly features were once more reddened with the rising sun.

McDonough's wife to be dead, and he far out in the country, and no one belonging to her to so much as lift the coffin over the threshold of the door.

Let my pistols, cutlass, and pocket compass be laid in the coffin along with me.

Some undertaker's men were carrying coffins across the road to the prison, for the reception of the sufferers after execution.

"What," queried Doc Coffin after a momentary silence, "was the matter with you?"

Almost all the Kings of Sweden slumber in silver and copper coffins within these walls.