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  • Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Coffined in state, -- with a purple velvet pall trailing its rich folds over the casket which enshrined her perished mortality, -- and with flowers of every imaginable rareness, or wildness, scattered about it, -- the body of Lotys was, with no religious or formal ceremony, placed on the deck of a sailing-brig, and sent out to the waves for burial.

    Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

  • Coffined in lead, the body of Maximus awaited only a return of fine weather for its conveyance to the vessel.

    Veranilda George Gissing 1880

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