coffinless

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.

Vittorio, The Vampire 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.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

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.

An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

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.

Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 Various

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.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

Yet, surely, I reflected, something resembling interment must have taken place on the arrival of each corpse, especially as it was coffinless.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

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.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

Through you there’s many a gallant youth lies coffinless today

A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan 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.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

Ever the night with its coffinless corpse to be laid in the ground;

Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Joy, James Richard, 1863- 1902