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Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words.
Ulysses 2003
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Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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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
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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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