Just inside the doorway on this side was a table that bore a small coffin, painted black.

If he wasn't mistaken, there was a switch just inside the door, somewhere above that small coffin.

"We need a small coffin," one of the men shouted.

He stops and looks about him, then turns his eyes to the small coffin.

It had been a very small coffin - a very deep hole.

From the open front door of the house emerged a small, pale coffin, borne by more men in suits.

They were just bones, so everything fit into small coffins.

After the Mass, the small coffin was borne out of the church by four sanitation workers belonging to the department's color guard.

He might think of the small coffin (like a salesman's sample) in which his daughter would have to be buried.

The remains were placed in a small specially constructed coffin.