Sentences with phrase «lying in his coffin»

Perhaps I am not really within the cabin of the plane at all but lying in a coffin with the luggage, disguised as an innocent box to fool the superstitious, while my ghost persists in occupying a seat whose contours have grown familiar through five years of a restless exile that began in 1994.

Not exact matches

While the principle of «innocent until proven guilty,» also known as the «presumption of innocence,» isn't explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution (though it is part of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a key document of the French Revolution), it is long considered one the most fundamental principles of the American justice system.In 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Coffin v. United States that «the principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and its enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law.»

Did they just happen to have a stained - glass Victorian lampshade that converts into a coffin lying around in the event a pretty dead girl stopped by?

As Patrick's father, David, a thwarted pianist whose snobbery is topped only by his cruelty, Hugo Weaving (best known as Agent Smith from «The Matrix») manages to be terrifying from the first moment he appears, lying stock still in his coffin in Episode 1.

That was how I came to be exhibited in the museum auditorium, lying in a large black - lacquered coffin carved with celestial animals and the name of its intended tenant, who no doubt would seek me out with an eviction notice shaking in his hand.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

In his novel, Black Swan Green, David Mitchell's teenage poet, Jason Taylor, says: «If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin and say, «When you're readIn his novel, Black Swan Green, David Mitchell's teenage poet, Jason Taylor, says: «If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin and say, «When you're readin your coffin and say, «When you're ready.

The final coffin on the nail is that there is no money lying around in the USA for this.

What a tragic day for the polar bears and another nail in the Bush Administration coffin of environmental sins, lies and obstruction...