Meaning of coffinful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The contents of a coffin.
2. The amount that a coffin can hold.

Examples

“My father, not many years since as healthy as myself, is dead, and lies yonder a coffinful of dust.”

“Little processions of black-clothed croupiers, with down-turned eyes, like the mutes at a funeral, marched through the rooms, guarding a coffinful of counters.”

“Although Calvin came he did not steal that love out of your heart: you loved the tawny moor, and suffered pain when that land and the flower were taken from you, and a coffinful of songs was laid in the earth.”

“Gapp screamed inside his head, his skin crawling as if he lay in a coffinful of maggots, No bloody danger?”

“A few days afterwards the coroner's jury sat on a coffinful of old brickbats and fragments of bed-clothes and boots and brace buttons and bits of Eli, and after a long discussion, came to the only conclusion possible, viz., that the deceased's death was attributable to a general breaking up of the system.”

“Other people can slow their breathing to where they can make a coffinful of air last a week.”

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