Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffling
Literary usage of Coffling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Six Old English Chronicles, of which Two are Now First Translated from the by Nennius, Gildas, Ethelwerd, Charles Bertram, John Allen Giles (1896)
"... was honourably buried in the school of the Saxons, in St. Mary's church, where
he awaits the Lord's coffling and the first resurrection with the just. ..."
2. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1815)
"... he knew I was coffling to him." I immediately turned oí the road, and went
back to the house. When she met her husband she fainted, and on recovering, ..."
3. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature edited by Edward Tuckerman Mason (1886)
"... whom, un- coffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make
to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase. ..."
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