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The Queen's body was placed in a sarcophagus.sarcophagus = stone coffin
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Lying in it, as in a grave or sarcophagus, with a hurried drapery of sheet and blanket thrown across it, was the body... (source)
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She marched straight up to the sarcophagus and pushed aside the golden lid. (source)sarcophagus = a coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
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Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.† (source)sarcophagus = stone coffin
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Only, instead of sarcophagi bearing the likenesses of saints, receding into the far reaches of the chamber were rows of racks laden with bottles of wine.† (source)
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Because the hiding place of the Holy Grail includes a sarcophagus.† (source)
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By the afternoon of day two, the snow was three feet deep and my little metal but began to feel less like a refuge than a sarcophagus.† (source)sarcophagus = stone coffin
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The ancients decorated their sarcophagi with symbols of life and procreation, some of them even obscene.† (source)
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Resa had seated herself on a sarcophagus.† (source)
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They fixed their eyes simultaneously on the case opposite them, and when the official figure had vanished down a vista of mummies and sarcophagi Archer spoke again.† (source)
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A second sarcophagus had been placed beside the woman, depicting a man.† (source)
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Are they going to decorate their 'Hall of Life' with obscene symbols, like the ones found on many ancient sarcophagi?† (source)
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Little was left to be found except the skeleton, some random shreds of tissue and tendon, and the cruciform-still attached to the rib cage like some splendid cross packed in the sarcophagus of a long-dead pope.† (source)
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I gazed with unquiet eye upon the sarcophagi in the angles of the room, upon the varying figures of the drapery, and upon the writhing of the parti-colored fires in the censer overhead.† (source)
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The spits were like coughs in shadows as both men fell into the sarcophagus.† (source)
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Medical imaging rooms, MRI tanks, and CPD bays flung open like looted sarcophagi.† (source)
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