un-coffined

Updated: June 2, 2025

The House of Lords then adopted the Resolution to the Queen. The body of Mr. Gladstone, un-coffined, was laid on a couch in the Library of the Castle the room called the Temple of Peace. He was dressed in a suit of black cloth, over which were the scarlet robes of the university, and by his side the cap was placed. His hands were folded on his breast.

Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook - The Grand Old Man

And so while straying animals were slowly recovered, while the camp was set in order, while the dead were laid with simple reverence in un-coffined graves, and the sick were crudely ministered to, while Beverly grew feverish and his arrow wound became a festering sore, and Rex Krane, master of the company, cared for every thing and everybody with that big mother-heart of his Jondo and Bill Banney pushed alone across the desolate plains toward where the Smoky Hills wrapped in their dim gray-blue mist mark the low watershed that rims the western valley of the Kaw.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains