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Updated: June 16, 2025
The coffins were lifted endwise, and the dead Germans flung out upon their faces on the grass. Then all the regiments wheeled in sections, and marched past the spot in slow time. When the survey was over the corpses were again coffined, and borne away. Meanwhile Dr.
We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds. Is it not so, my brothers?" An awful and sinister smile gleamed on the countenances of her unearthly audience, and seemed to glide visibly from underneath their masks. "Now," she continued, "I have a proposition to make.
Time and space seemed annihilated beyond those four narrow walls, and I was as a coffined living centre of an else lifeless infinity. My reverie was rudely broken by the staggering step of a fellow-lodger, whose devotion to Bacchus was the one symptom of reverence in his nature.
We might contrast the vault where the warrior's remains lie shrouded and coffined, with that in which his worldly provision of wine is stowed away. Spain and Portugal and France all the lands which supplied his store as hardy and obedient subaltern, as resolute captain, as colonel daring but prudent he has visited the fields of all.
The strains of the monarch minstrel, chanted thus in their homely but nervous mother tongue by a multitude who had but recently learned that all the poetry and rapture of devotion were not irrevocably coffined with a buried language, or immured in the precincts of a church, had never produced a more elevating effect.
And so I now shake the past from my soul as a torn and tattered garment, and would despise myself if even a sensation of pain were left behind. No, no, I am free! My heart is coffined, and I shall close the lid and bid it an eternal farewell!" "Your heart coffined, your highness!" said Leuchtmar gently.
Her mild duplicity was of course mere make believe: the two understood each other only too well: but it was wiser to keep a veil drawn in case Bernard Clowes should suddenly return to his senses. For this reason Laura always spoke as if his choice of a coffined life were only a day or two old.
And here we found the shrine of poor Charlotte Bronté's many weary pilgrimages hither, the burial-place of her friend and schoolmate Martha Taylor, the Jessy Yorke of "Shirley," the spot where, under "green sod and a gray marble headstone, cold, coffined, solitary, Jessy sleeps below." For a long time "the Dean" had had a certain familiarity for us.
And all the time which they mourne they keepe the dead in the house, the bowels being taken out and filled with chownam or lime, and coffined: and when the time is expired they carry them out playing and piping, and burne them. And when they returne they pull off their mourning weeds, and marry at their pleasure. Laban is a Iland among the Iauas from whence come the diamants of the New water.
It was very plain that her thoughts were not lingering around the shrouded and coffined form of what was once her mother's body, but were following her into the world beyond our mortal vision, as we follow a dear friend who has gone from us on a long journey. And thus it was that Blanche Montgomery entered upon her new life. Death's shadow fell upon the torch of Hymen.
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