The vampires, the larvae'they lay sleeping, coffinless, cryptless, open in long rows, each exquisitely dressed body covered in a thin shroud of spun gold. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)
Immediately inside the gate, a little to the right, are those monster graves called by the people "the pits," into which the dead were thrown coffinless in hundreds, without mourning or ceremony -- hurried away by stealth, frequently at the dead of night, to elude observation, and to enable the survivors to attend the public works next day, and thus prolong for awhile their unequal contest with all-conquering Famine. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
Yet, surely, I reflected, something resembling interment must have taken place on the arrival of each corpse, especially as it was coffinless. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
To air out his musty, old mind became more urgent with every oppressive moment in which he was increasingly discontent to stay within the hole in the embankment of the Pullman car that at times seemed a coffin or a drawer at a morgue, and at other times like a coffinless rot in a crevasse within the walls of a mountain. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Norman and English periods, the common people of this country were often wrapped in a sere-cloth after death, and so placed, coffinless, in the earth. ❋ Various (N/A)
He was too ill to bear the journey, and went from our tent to the church hospital, and from the church to his grave, which would have been coffinless but for the care of ----; for the Quartermaster's Department was overtaxed, and for many days our dead were simply wrapped in their blankets and put into the earth. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
Here they died at a fearful rate, and their dead bodies were removed from the miserable pallet of straw, or the bare floor where they had breathed their last, and buried in rude coffins, and sometimes coffinless, in a low piece of ground near by. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
Through you theres many a gallant youth lies coffinless today ❋ Unknown (1922)
Page 134 would have done to aid her; her second child did die, and the father was compelled to bury it, coffinless, in a hole. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Ever the night with its coffinless corpse to be laid in the ground; ❋ Joy, James Richard, 1863- (1902)
The body is taken out at the cemetery and consigned, coffinless, to mother earth. ❋ Unknown (1888)
At the intimation of the watchmen stationed before houses bearing red crosses upon their doors, the sad procession would tarry, When coffinless, and oftentimes shroudless, rigid, loathsome, and malodorous bodies were hustled into the carts with all possible speed. ❋ Unknown (1883)
Near the extremity of the lake was another small coffee-house, with a burial-ground and a mosque near it; and about four or five miles beyond I passed a spot, to which several Turks brought a coffinless corpse, and laid it on the grass while they silently dug a grave to receive it. ❋ Galt, John, 1779-1839 (1830)
The number of persons employed rose, in less than three months, from 20,000 to four hundred thousand; the return for the week ending on the 5th of October was just 20,000; for the week ending on the 26th of December, 398,000! there being at the latter period at least one hundred and fifty thousand on the books of the officers of the works, who either would not or could not be employed; the famine-stricken were, meantime, hastening to their shroudless and coffinless graves by the thousand. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
"This parish (Keantra, Dingle) contained, six months since, three thousand souls; over five hundred of these have perished, and three-fourths of them interred coffinless. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
