Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Narrow House

or Home. A coffin; the grave. Gray calls the grave a “narrow cell.”

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Elegy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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