The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

The coffin stood on trestles in a corner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had ordered.

The coffin, almost buried in flowers, had been put in the large room.

He had to remain seated in the freezing cold as the coffin was carried, having tired himself out by standing at the rehearsal the previous day.

Two days earlier, he told his wife, Dani, that he had a bad dream that he was being carried in a coffin following a heart attack.

Levy's coffin had to be re-opened so that her leg could replace another unmatched leg that had previously been buried with her remains.

King George V gifted to Victoria College a silver cup used by Queen Victoria when she was a child and the Royal Standard that had flown at Osborne House and was draped on the coffin of the Queen when she died there in 1901.

In Canada, the typhus epidemic of 1847 killed more than 20 000 people died from 1847 to 1848, mainly Irish immigrants in fever sheds and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard coffin ships.

Edward had insisted on placing John in his coffin personally with " the tears rolling down his cheeks ".

At her request, after her funeral the wreath that had lain atop her coffin was placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, in a gesture that echoed her wedding-day tribute 79 years before.

It was found that the wood casing of her lead coffin had been removed to create space for the interment of her great-great grandson, James I.

Almost immediately after the procession began, mourners had engulfed Nasser's coffin shouting " There is no God but Allah, and Nasser is God's beloved ... Each of us is Nasser.

After the fall of communism, an excavation attempt was made at the Vrana Palace, in which only Boris's heart was found, as it had been put in a glass cylinder outside the coffin.

At his funeral the coffin was carried to the grave by former students who had received the bursaries for which he had worked so hard, it was they who subscribed for the monument over his grave, severely simple as he would have desired.

One burial was within a substantial stone coffin which had been positioned beneath a mausoleum, the foundations of which remained.

" Little Shayma's death captured people's emotions as nothing else had " and " when her coffin was borne through the streets of Cairo, people cried, ' Terrorism is the enemy of God!

It had grist and saw mills, a blacksmith shop, buggy shop, coffin shop, general mercantile, public well, federal distillery, six saloons or inns, pharmacy, and doctors.

The first had three gantries while the second had three above ground coffin launchers ( The term " coffin launcher " is used because the missile was laid on its side horizontally with the enclosure door or coffin-lid situated above.

At one time it was a bustling frontier village that had three stores, a schoolhouse, a cemetery, three blacksmith and wagon shops, a grist mill, a chair and coffin factory, a shoe shop and the Patchin Hotel which also served as the post office.

Everybody who attended had the opportunity to view Dio's coffin.

Originally, an elaborate framework would be erected over a coffin or tomb to which memorial verses or epitaphs were attached.

His flag-draped coffin was attached to a gun carriage pulled by six horses and led by a column of cavalrymen.

A cartouche attached to a coffin satisfied this requirement.

" Remains were placed in a plain wooden coffin ; if there was a headboard, it was attached to it.

In Horses there are about 600 pairs of interleaved laminae: the epidermal laminae attached to the hoof wall and the dermal laminae attached to the coffin bone ( a. k. a. PIII, P3, the third phalanx, pedal bone, or distal phalanx ).

Coffin plates are decorative adornments attached to a coffin that can contain various inscriptions like the name and death date of the deceased or a simple terms of endearment.

In keeping with the custom of that time, Palestrina was buried on the same day he died, in a plain coffin with a lead plate on which was inscribed Libera me Domine.

The reasoning for the plate was to hinder their return home by suppressing any spirits in the coffin.

In 1946 occupying Soviet troops, perhaps hoping to loot it of jewels, dislodged the granite plate covering the grave and broke into Vetsera's coffin at the Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

While her death certificate states that she was 42 at the time of her murder ( an apparent error reflected on her coffin plate and gravestone ), birth records indicate she was 43, a fact confirmed at her inquest by her father, who described her as looking " ten years younger " than her age.

*" His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

On his coffin was a plate with the inscription, " Gulielmus.

Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was alternated with various other shots ( a plate of soup, a girl, a little girl's coffin ).

The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mosjoukine's face was different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was " looking at " the plate of soup, the girl, or the coffin, showing an expression of hunger, desire or grief respectively.

For a basic funeral, a simple lead plate would be lettered with the name, date of death and often the age of the departed, and nailed to the lid of a wooden coffin.

Through the centuries, more people were able to afford the luxury of a coffin plate and with the industrial revolution, by the mid-19th century, the cost of the plates decreased so much that almost every family could afford to have one put on the coffin of their loved ones.

A painter and goldsmith, of his three paintings known to survive, one was for centuries erroneously attributed to Tintoretto ; and from his own, personal workshop came the main part of the famous silver coffin of St. Adalbert of Prague at the Cathedral in Gniezno.

In the Book of the Dead he is said to fashion silver bowls and a silver coffin of Sheshonq II has been discovered at Tanis decorated with the iconography of Seker.

Like his father Andrianampoinimerina and other Merina sovereigns that would follow him, he was laid to rest in a silver coffin, and it is said the funerary goods buried with him were the most extensive and richest of any tomb in Madagascar.

His body was transported to Montgomery, Alabama, on January 2 and placed in a silver coffin that was first shown at his mother's boarding house for two days.

An estimated 15, 000 to 25, 000 people passed by the silver coffin, and the auditorium was filled with 2, 750 mourners.

One face of the fragmentary silver cover of the portable altar also recovered from Cuthbert's coffin has a similar combination of elements, with both areas of interlace and, in the four corners, a simple plant motif with a central bud or leaf and a spiral shoot on either side.

In the 17th century, King Władysław IV Vasa commissioned an ornate silver coffin to hold the Saint's relics.

Within the outer case lies a wooden coffin that is wrapped in silk ( black with gold trim for rulers, red with silver trim for others ).

Underneath the canopy is placed a silver coffin of national patron saint St. Stanislaus ( Stanisław ) created between 1669-1671 after the previous one ( donated in 1512 by King Sigismund I the Old ) was stolen by the Swedes in 1655.

von Beckerath's hypothesis is supported by the fact that Shoshenq II employed a complete royal titulary along with a distinct prenomen Heqakheperre and his intact tomb at Tanis was filled with numerous treasures including jewelled pectorals and bracellets, an impressive falconheaded silver coffin and a gold face mask – items which indicate a genuine king of the 22nd Dynasty.

After ten hours, Stephen eventually dies, and is buried in a silver coffin by Pilate, against Stephen's wishes.

Baroque canopy and a silver coffin of St. Stanisław

On that time, many changes were introduced in the Cathedral – the main altar was rebuilt, the cloister was elevated and the Confession of St. Stanislaw ( a marble altar and a silver coffin ) was built.

Following Frederick IX's death in 1972, his coffin was placed in the chapel, draped with his Royal Standard, guarded by three silver lions from the Danish Crown Regalia, and flanked by a pair of candelabra in the shape of anchors.

Psusennes I, himself, was interred in an " inner silver coffin " which was inlaid with gold.

Since " silver was considerably rarer in Egypt than gold ," Psusennes I's silver " coffin represents a sumptuous burial of great wealth during Egypt's declining years.

It proved to contain a large number of jewel-encrusted bracelets and pectorals, along with a beautiful hawkheaded silver coffin and a gold funerary mask.

Since this pharaoh's funerary objects such as his silver coffin, jewel pectorals, and cartonnage all give him the unique royal name Heqakheperre, he was most likely a genuine king of the 22nd Dynasty in his own right, and not just a minor coregent.

The exclusive use of silver for the creation of Shoshenq II's coffin is a potent symbol of his power because silver " was considerably rarer in Egypt than gold.