coffin-lid

She enters the boat and he takes them out on to the mirror of the lake, the black-and-silver coffin-lid drawn over his world and under hers, and which must mean everything—and therefore, is nothing at all.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

She enters the boat and he takes them out on to the mirror of the lake, the black-and-silver coffin-lid drawn over his world and under hers, and which must mean everything—and therefore, is nothing at all.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

She enters the boat and he takes them out on to the mirror of the lake, the black-and-silver coffin-lid drawn over his world and under hers, and which must mean everything—and therefore, is nothing at all.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

With trembling impatience she pushed aside the coffin-lid.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

When the corpse was to be carried down into the vault, (a very spacious one, within the church,) there was great crowding to see the coffin-lid, and the devices upon it.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

By his generosity he had shut, as it were, a coffin-lid down upon me.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

The door was solid pine, like a coffin-lid, and painted green for no reason anyone could remember, except an old song, "What's that happenin behind the green door …?"

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

The coffin-lid being screwed down, the two gentlemen arranged the room and adjusted the coffin so that it lay perfectly straight along the boards, the Count being specially anxious that there should be no appearance of hurry or disorder in the room, which might have suggested remark and conjecture.

The Room in the Dragon Volant 2003

Nevertheless, words are as heavy as stones, and after felling fancy to the ground, serve but to heap her grey coffin-lid, and cause one, as one stands contemplating the tomb, to laugh in sheer self-derision ....

Through Russia 2003

He put on the coffin-lid again, gathered up all his things and placed them in the bag, blew out the light, and placed the candle also in the bag.

The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001