uncoffined
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of uncoffined
Example Sentences
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Unless the Russians accept, as they probably will not, the year-old U.S. offer of a control treaty over Germany, the bones of contention in Central Europe will remain uncoffined and unquiet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bodies of the common people, usually naked and uncoffined, were thrust into the sand at a depth of barely three feet from the surface.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Meanwhile I will, so long as I am yet uncoffined, write something every Sunday for the public to read, two or three lines at least, if my plan should succeed.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
In that lonely grave without a name, Where his uncoffined clay Shall break again, O, wondrous thought!
From Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days by Thomas Barlow Smith
The man who had died to save Rachel he could not bury uncoffined in a grave of sand, where the natural processes of dissolution would destroy him utterly.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
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