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
He now beheld, stretched out upon the bed where she had so lately lain in life, though dying, the yet uncoffined corpse of the aged woman, whose death has been described.
From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Miller, Elizabeth
He knew thee, Vanity!By day a mincing foot is thine:Thou runnest along the spider's line:--Ay, but heavy sounds thy treadBy night, among the uncoffined dead!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various
Here the mourners gathered round to take a last look of the uncoffined corpses of the brave.
From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet
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