An arm-reliquary was acasketin the form of a human arm and hand, though the relic inside was sometimes no more than a fragment.$!
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Their caskets are more ornate and only portions of the two flanking skeletons are visible.
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One person stood in the centre, with a woodencasketfull of rice powder.
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This critique is embedded in detailed descriptions of funeral industry services and their costs, including embalming, cosmetic preparation of bodies for viewing, cremation, caskets, funeral rites, and burials.
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For one thing, you may be able to work the sales agent for something extra, say a chaise lounge or maybe acasketfor somebody's internment.
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What authority was there to open thiscasket?
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I want to leave to the councils the beautiful caskets they gave me.
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Moreover, there is a demand for the hand on thecasketservice.
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However, the salesman called her back and said that the brother-in-law was too tall and did not fit into the cheapcasket.
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I have thought of the inscription which he might write upon thecasket.
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The woman objected and the salesman said that the undertakers would use the cheapcasket, but they would have to chop off her brother-in-law's feet.
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We made an exchange and got the fourth side of ourcasket, which was certainly, from any antiquarian point of view, a very good exchange indeed.
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It is placed in a metalcasketwhich is hermetically sealed, and, in turn, that is placed in an ordinary packing case which is padded with a chemically-treated sawdust.
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As for the opening of thecasket, as my right honourable friend had not been consulted, obviously those who opened it did so without his authority.
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She went to a "reputable" undertaker and, in the interests of saving the widow expense, chose the cheapest redwoodcasketand was quoted a suitably low price.
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