1.   As the drumming built to a crescendo, the coffin lid snapped open, scattering coins into the dust.

2.   Helen remembered the posy of flowers from the garden that she had tried to fix to the coffin lid with sellotape.

3.   Some of them dabbed their eyes with handkerchiefs, others stared very seriously at the coffin lid.

4.   The sound was as final as the closing of a coffin lid.

5.   When my father threw in the first handful of dirt, I heard the pebbles dance on the coffin lid.

6.   Davis once likened it to the closing of a coffin lid.

7.   Other portraits were painted on wooden coffin lids, linen shrouds and plaster heads.

8.   Pratt said a new trial would open the coffin lid on the corpse of Cointelpro and the harm it had caused.

9.   The corpses were silently passed out of the truck, laid on crude wooden coffin lids and wound in white shrouds by a Muslim cleric in a red turban.

10.   Opening the new album by The Notorious B.I.G. is uncomfortably akin to prying open a coffin lid.