Sentence examples for lead casket from inspiring English sources

Bassanio opens the lead casket that wins Portia's heart.

Portia's suitors are forced to choose a gold, silver or lead casket — uncertain about which will disclose the true image of their beloved.

But what's puzzling is that not all of Eadgyth was actually in the lead casket: her hands and feet were nowhere to be found and most of the skull was missing.

This time, inside the inner lead casket, the bones were laid out and packed into position with English wool and linen, and covered with an unbleached linen cloth, hand-embroidered with his white rose and white boar symbols.

But when Johnson, on that electrifying Georgia night in 1996, settled into his unique shoulders-back style and persuaded his legs to whirr to a record of 19.32 for the 200m, a mark was established that might as well have been sealed in a lead casket and buried in an unmarked tomb.

It was sealed in a bronze and lead casket and buried in a cemetery in San Francisco.

She is convincing as a mature woman who accepts suitors in her Art Deco home as they try to choose correctly among the gold, silver or lead caskets.

It was certainly profoundly unnecessary to commission Emma Thompson's 1988 sketch show Thompson, a misguided act of Footlights favouritism surely, the original tapes of which should be sealed in lead caskets and buried 100 feet deep on inhospitable terrain, and probably are.

The leading casket company in the United States Batesville Casket is located in Indiana.

And in 1921, while the dial-painting studios were in full swing, Marie Curie visited America and was presented with one gram of radium -- which was enclosed in a 110-pound, lead lined casket.

During funeral processions, brass bands would lead the casket and loved ones on a march toward the burial site while playing mournful dirges.