coffinful
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2VERB + COFFINFUL
guarding, lies
COFFINFUL + NOUN
counters, dust, songs
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noun
The contents of a coffin.
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.
The amount that a coffin can hold.
Other people can slow their breathing to where they can make a coffinful of air last a week.
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3My father, not many years since as healthy as myself, is dead, and lies yonder a coffinful of dust.
WiktionaryLittle processions of black-clothed croupiers, with down-turned eyes, like the mutes at a funeral, marched through the rooms, guarding a coffinful of counters.
WiktionaryAlthough 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 t
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