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  • Coffin-maker Eternal Image has just leaped to at least third place on my favorite coffin-maker list of all time.

    For when you don’t live long, but prosper 2009

  • Coffin-maker Eternal Image has just leaped to at least third place on my favorite coffin-maker list of all time.

    2009 January 2009

  • Precious Auntie twice rescued LuLing from the villainous coffin-maker Chang by violent means.

    To Stage From Page and Screen 2008

  • Eric Anang, grandson of the late Kane Kwei, coffin-maker extraordinaire.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • But actually the coffin-maker was next door, and like so many Malaysian shops, both were open fronted.

    Writerly perks... Glenda Larke 2007

  • He had been raised in the Bronx; his father was a coffin-maker.

    Dangerous Talents Kashner, Sam 2005

  • He had been raised in the Bronx; his father was a coffin-maker.

    Dangerous Talents Kashner, Sam 2005

  • It would signify somewhat, if, in any earnest sense, he slanted them and daubed it; but the spirit having departed out of the tenant, it is of a piece with constructing his own coffin — the architecture of the grave — and “carpenter” is but another name for “coffin-maker.”

    Walden 2004

  • In one of the three windows on the ground floor there was a miniature red coffin — as a sign that a working coffin-maker lived there.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

  • All our money was gone and we had nothing to buy medicine with, and nothing to eat, for the coffin-maker and his wife had nothing either, and they began to scold us for living at their expense.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

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