Coffer Sentence Examples

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  • It is only the great solidity of this coffer which has preserved the contents.

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  • This was almost certainly the shock of an earthquake, and the same shock probably caused the split in the stone lid of the coffer itself.

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  • Murad, who had returned to Brusa, crossed over to Biga, and sent on Haji Ilbeyi with io,000 men; these fell by night on the Servians and utterly routed them at a place still known as the " Servians' coffer."

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  • A cover of one of the vases was found dislodged and lying on the bottom of the stone coffer.

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  • Mr Peppe presented the coffer and vases with specimens of the jewelry to the museum at Calcutta where they still are.

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  • In September 1545 Tylcock was elected Junior Bailiff, and in October 1547 he contributed a shilling toward Dame Margaret Northern's coffer.

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  • In September 1545 Tylcock was elected Junior Bailiff, and in October 1547 he contributed a shilling toward Dame Margaret Northern 's coffer.

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  • The work included a massive new concrete foundation, hence the necessity to build the coffer dam.

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  • The pieces were thus firmly held in their place, and the contents of the coffer were found intact.

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  • Cotgrave translates bougette " a little coffer or trunk.

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  • The stone lid of the coffer was split into four pieces; but the coffer remained perfectly closed, so accurately was the lid fitted into flanges on the sides of the box.

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  • At Silver Islet, Lake Superior, mining was successfully carried on for years under the protection of a coffer dam and an arch of rich silver ore less than 20 ft.

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  • In the 3rd century, under Gallienus and Probus, the city contained the chief imperial mint and treasury; and an engraved coffer, found in Croatia, dating from the 4th century, and representing the five foremost cities of the Empire, includes Siscia along with Rome, Byzantium, Carthage and Nicomedia.

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