Every gravestonethat you ever made is the visible symbol of a mistaken system.
A comely woman, with a pretty rosebud of a daughter, came to select a gravestone for a twin-daughter, who had died a month before.
Clear and distinct to Mary's mind came a sentence of Crawford's: "I saw her name first on the gravestone and it made an impression on me because it was so quaint and old-fashioned.
I saw her name first on the gravestone and it made an impression on me because it was so odd and old-fashioned--'Patience, wife of Edwin Smith.
A gravestone consisting of a square house of Illinois marble, with a piece of a smoke-stack protruding from the roof.
At the time he went out everybody wanted to put up a gravestone immediately--almost before he needed one.
Oh, when man has nothing more to love, he embraces the gravestone of his love, and sorrow becomes his loved one!
An accurate woodcut of his gravestoneis in Mayer's Logan and Cresap, p.
His gravestone is in Trinity churchyard, New York city, opposite the door of the north transept.
He looked solemnly at the battered cherub upon the gravestone and the cherub's grin was broad.
His gaze was fixed upon a winged death's head on a battered slate gravestone near at hand.
Upon the gravestone of Susanna an inscription has been intruded commemorative of Richard Watts, who is not, however, known to have had any relationship with either Shakespeare or his descendants.
The inscription on this small gravestone in the burying-ground on Woodstock Hill is read with difficulty and is as follows: "Here lies buried ye body of Lieu.
Edward Morris, whose gravestone bears the date of 1689, the oldest in the county.
Inlaid into the floor of the mausoleum is the gravestone of Burns,--the very same that was laid over his grave by Jean Armour, before this monument was built.
A more severe view of the Deity appears upon a gravestone six rows east of this, commemorating James and Tamson Eaton, who died in 1846.
The gravestone is dated 1792, which is ancient for this part of the country.
Then, whether or not some glutinous or other chemical material had been mingled in the water, a pale gleam broke from the gravestone thus sprinkled, and the whole tomb glistened in the light of the leaping fire.
The gravestone of the Saxon father-chief was lit up, as with the coil of the lightning; and the Morthwyrtha looked from the mound, and saw in her visions of awe the Valkyrs in the train of the fiery star.
A slate gravestone would suit me as well as a marble one--with just my name and age, and a verse of a hymn, and something to let people know that I lived an honest man and died a Christian.
The men of that generation watched for his reappearance, in sunshine and in twilight, but never saw him more, nor knew when his funeral passed, nor where his gravestone was.
Dan'l Malcolm=; an allusion to an inscription on a gravestone in Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston.
The indent in the gravestoneunder the arch leaves no doubt of its having been once finished with a brass effigy.
Her husband has an inscription on a gravestone in Eaton College chapel towards the south wall.
This note follows Herbert's verses on the gravestone of Henry Danvers.
It is said that his gravestone is still to be seen in the churchyard in that city.
His gravestone with inscription still legible in the Hingham churchyard is the most ancient Joy grave mark in America.
Benjamin Faneuil the elder is buried on the north side of Trinity church in New York City and the gravestone is in good preservation.
Forever and forever shalt thou be To some thegravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain.
Friendly was he to behold, and glad as the heralding angel Walked he among the crowds, but still a contemplative grandeur Lay on his forehead as clear as on moss-covered gravestone a sunbeam.
Every wash-tub and milk-can and gravestone will be exposed.
The gravestone is so overgrown with grass and weeds, so covered with unsightly lichens, and crumbly with time and foul weather, that it is questionable whether anybody will ever be at the trouble of deciphering it again.
This elegant epitaph is upon a gravestone in Concord, Mass.
In many cases the worn gravestone lies forlornly face downward; sometimes, "The slab has sunk; the head declined, And left the rails a wreck behind.
Père la Chaise, who, with an eye to former customers, make use of the late Andsoforth's gravestone to advertise that they still carry on the business at the old stand?
The gravestone is so overgrown with grass and weeds, so covered with unsightly lichens, and so crumbly with time and foul weather, that it is questionable whether anybody will ever be at the trouble of deciphering it again.
They lie in a row, right across the breadth of the chancel, the foot of each gravestone being close to the elevated floor on which the altar stands.
On my word, that must be the gravestone of Preben Schwane and his wife!
A few years before, the couple had caused their gravestone to be prepared, and their names to be engraved on it, with the inscription, all but the date.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gravestone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
