It is well for us to remember that a wreath on a coffin never can atone for flowers withheld while they still can be enjoyed.

All of Poland is a coffin.

A wry trick of others is to request the reader to get off their resting place, inasmuch as the reader would have to be standing on the ground above the coffin to read the inscription.

At the conclusion of the service, an Ardas is said before the coffin is taken to the cremation site.

A hearse is a funerary vehicle used to carry a coffin from a church or funeral home to a cemetery.

However, it is unclear whether Millet changed his mind on the meaning of the painting, or even if the shape actually is a coffin.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

Varney is named after the original Varney The Vampire and spends his nights sleeping in a coffin.

After Sheikh Taissir Tamimi discovered that Arafat was buried improperly and in a coffin — which is not in accordance with Islamic law — Arafat was reburied on the morning of 13 November at around 3: 00 am.

* May 5 – Forty men burn their draft cards at the University of California, Berkeley, and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board.

* May 17 – Charles Chaplin's coffin is found some 15 km from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.

Although the young woman's coffin was robbed in antiquity, the other remained in situ and undisturbed, and is now on display at the site.

In the year 264, a coffin containing the body of Bartholomew is washed upon the beach of Lipari, with the result that Bartholomew is immediately elected the Patron Saint of the Aeolian Islands.

The St Cuthbert Gospel is among the objects later recovered from St Cuthbert's coffin, which is also an important artefact.

St Cuthbert's Society, a college of Durham University, is named after him and is located only a short walk from the coffin of the saint at Durham Cathedral.

Early pies were much larger than those consumed today, and oblong shaped ; the jurist John Selden presumed that " the coffin of our Christmas-Pies, in shape long, is in Imitation of the Cratch crib ", although writer T. F. Thistleton-Dyer thought Selden's explanation unlikely, as " in old English cookery books the crust of a pie is generally called ' the coffin.

On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex and was draped in the flag of the Republic of Ireland.

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.

On 11 November, a French Army Honor Guard held a brief ceremony for Arafat, with his coffin draped in a Palestinian flag.

It was draped over the coffin of Lady Dai ( d. 168 BCE ), wife of the Marquess Li Cang ( 利蒼 ) ( d. 186 BCE ), chancellor for the Kingdom of Changsha.

At her funeral, Mary's coffin was draped in her personal Royal Standard of the United Kingdom # Consorts of the British monarch | banner of arms.

The patriarchal mantle is draped over his coffin.

Otto's coffin was draped with the Habsburg flag decorated with the imperial – royal coats of arms of Austria and Hungary in addition to the Habsburg family coat of arms.

Han Dynasty | Western Han painting on History of silk | silk was found draped over the coffin in the grave of Lady Dai ( c. 168 BC ) at Mawangdui near Changsha in Hunan province.

Busby also took part in Oliver Cromwell's funeral procession in 1658 ; when Robert Uvedale, a Westminster schoolboy, succeeded in snatching the " Majesty Scutcheon " ( white satin banner ) draped on the coffin ( it was given to the School by his family two hundred years later ).

" and a coffin draped in the Irish tricolour.

Funerals, conducted with full military honours, of casualties of these operations in Iraq, ( plus those killed in operations in Afghanistan ), have also been seen to include the Saltire ; the flag being draped over the coffin of the deceased on such occasions.

When Hoover died, Tolson inherited his estate of $ 551, 000 and moved into his house ; he accepted the U. S. flag draped on Hoover's coffin.

An honour guard of the Irish Guards in their full dress uniform was provided, though the coffin was not draped in the Union flag.

He was buried with full military honors including a flag draped coffin, 21 gun salute and missing man fly-over.

However, the national flag can be draped on a coffin during a military or state funeral.

The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves ' final resting place near Carthage, Texas.

His coffin aboard the ship to Southampton was draped with the Union Jack and floral wreaths, as it traversed London the flags on Fleet Street's newspapers flew at half-mast and the bell of St. Bride's tolled in mourning.

Sir Ellis ' coffin, draped in a Trinidad and Tobago flag, was set atop a cannon and pulled by a Military vehicle.

People draped in the New Zealand flag at the Auckland Domain as the hearse carrying Sir Edmund Hillary | Sir Edmund Hillary's coffin drives past during his state funeral.

The coffin was draped in Vietnam's red flag with a gold star and enclosed in a glass case for transportation on a gun carriage through city streets to the national cemetery for burial.

A pall is the heavy cloth that is draped over a coffin.

Four thousand admirers followed her coffin at her funeral, and the theatre was draped in black morning.

The locals then placed his body in a makeshift coffin, draped it in a French tricolour they found in his house, and buried him in the cemetery at nearby Sant Vicent de sa Cala.

Odlum's funeral was held on 6 October, with a 30-vehicle procession travelling from Vieux Fort to Castries ; it was led by a pair of police outriders and a coach carrying the coffin, draped in the national flag.

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.

Egyptians also believed that being mummified and put in a sarcophagus ( an ancient Egyptian " coffin " carved with complex symbols and designs, as well as pictures and hieroglyphs ) was the only way to have an afterlife.

Caitlin, without her customary hat, walked behind the coffin, with his childhood friend Daniel Jones at her arm and her mother by her side.

A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building.

Elizabeth's coffin was carried downriver at night to Whitehall, on a barge lit with torches.

At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet.

Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man.

His funeral was magnificent, with his Viennese subjects respectfully filing past his coffin in the chapel of Hofburg Palace

The book ends with Joseph's remains being " put in a coffin in Egypt.

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 vast majority of hearses since then have been based on larger, more powerful car chassis, generally retaining the front end up to and possibly including the front doors but with custom bodywork to the rear to contain the coffin.

The coffin bone inside the hoof should line up straight with both bones in the pastern.

John finds a locket in a coffin which holds a piece of paper with verses from the Bible.

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.

As the war advanced west, he fled to Norway, then was smuggled in a coffin by the Norwegian underground ( with his wife, Czech anthropologist Svatava Pirkova, disguised as a peasant woman ) over the border to Sweden, where he continued his work at the Karolinska Hospital ( with works on aphasia and language competence ).

When these stones were removed, the workmen found inside the remains of an oak coffin the complete skeleton of an individual entirely enclosed in two layers of thin lead, with a shroud of cloth of gold over it.

Aurangzeb refused to accommodate such ostentation and the body was washed in accordance with Islamic rites, taken by river in a sandalwood coffin to the Taj Mahal and was interred there next to the body of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.

In 475 BC, in response to an oracle, Cimon of Athens, having conquered Skyros for the Athenians, identified as the remains of Theseus " a coffin of a great corpse with a bronze spear-head by its side and a sword.

Some historians have suggested that Maximilian was " morbidly " depressed: From 1514, he travelled everywhere with his coffin.