Sentence examples for closed the coffin from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Bradley had barely closed the coffin on his Presidential campaign before he doused any speculation about a bid for Governor.

At his funeral, before they closed the coffin, she put her wedding ring on her dead husband's finger, and said to him "We will see each other very soon".

I spent a few minutes taking photographs, then I closed the coffin.

"Close the coffin, then decide," he said.

Don't close the coffin lid quite yet.

Even his mother's decision to close the coffin for his grandmother's funeral is a kind of affront.

I will be myself until they fucking close the coffin, so that you can all be yourselves too".

"When he dies," a fellow senator once remarked, "they'll have to beat his pecker down with a baseball bat to close the coffin lid"."When he dies, they'll have to beat his pecker down with a baseball bat to close the coffin lid"Most men would be happy just to be remembered for that.

First published in 1633, John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore was the last of the Renaissance revenge dramas, effectively closing the coffin lid on one of the most macabre episodes of the English stage.

An exceedingly offensive and oppressive effluvia, strongly resembling decayed cheese, arose from the body, and rendered it necessary to close the coffin in a short time, and it has since been consigned to his surviving connexions for the purpose of re-interment.

They laid their toddler down "in the machine, a kind of coffin, and closed the lid on me," he said.