The men moved like shadows about their Flying Dutchman of a boat, and their lantern just brought out the ghostliness of gravestones leaning between the columns of the cypresses.
The name of Warburton is still common about here, both among the living, and on the gravestones of Flixton churchyard.
Gravestones did not more certainly indicate what lay beneath them than did these two pallid envelopes.
I had intended taking the liberty of troubling you with a call, after giving a glance round the gravestones here.
III I found myself inquiring for the New North Cemetery, and after a time I stood looking through the bars of tall iron gates at long lines of gravestones and dreary hillocks before me.
And he pointed to a spot at some little distance, where there were no gravestones and no shrubs.
At rare intervals a strong breath of icy wind stirs the dead branches and makes them crack and rattle against the gravestones and against each other as in a dance of death.
Again the wilderness of gravestones and lean, crooked trees appeared, wild and desolate as before.
Here both the gravestones and the stunted trees are thickest, and the solitude is, if possible, even more complete than elsewhere.
The sun slowly sank beyond the farther bank of the broad river, and the moon and stars shone softly on the gravestones and crosses.
A host of monuments and gravestones reflected the sunlight, while a broad river ebbed and flowed between high banks.
Winifred ran over the road between the Harmon garden and the college fence, and, climbing the log fence, stood among the quietgravestones that chronicled the past generations of Chellaston.
Reigate churchyard holds the gravestones of two neighbours in name and place.
The western wall of the tower was black with them; so were the gravestones and the gravel.
The earth laps up the constant streams of water trickling down the topsy-turvy gravestoneswith a grateful and uncanny gurgle.
She read the inscriptions on the gravestones here and learned the stories of those who lie buried under them and her soul danced over the graves until the dead pulled her down to join them down below!
In twenty steps Helene had reached the yawning gateway, and saw before her the lonely expanse of white gravestones and black crosses.
A few broken gravestonesof quite recent date litter the narrow, dusty space between the north side of the church and the roadway.
Next to these was the large and half-surrounding churchyard, so full of gravestones that hardly a strip of grass could be seen in it.
On one of the gravestones I read 'The grave has eloquence, its lectures teach In language louder, than divines can preach.
We climbed one hundred and ninety steps to the church, and found many gravestones of little note; but one attracted my attention, as it bore my own and my husband's names.
We no more know where all the growths of our mind came from, than where the lichens which eat the names off from the gravestones borrowed the germs that gave them birth.
A few old churchyards look very much as they used to, except, of course, in Boston, where the gravestoneshave been rooted up and planted in rows with walks between them, to the utter disgrace and ruin of our most venerated cemeteries.
The hospitality which was reverentially paid to him he always acknowledged, by repairing the gravestones (if there existed any) belonging to the family or ancestors of his host.
He made frequent journeys into Galloway to attend their conventicles, and occasionally carried with him gravestones from his quarry at Gatelowbrigg, to keep in remembrance the righteous whose dust had been gathered to their fathers.
There can't be many churchyards in this quarter, and not many gravestones in any of them.
Netherfield on any o' them old gravestones up yonder?
And I said I didn't, but that there was such-like places in our parts where you couldn't see the gravestones for the grass, and these might be what he was asking after.
She had to pass among the gray old gravestones lying deep in the bright-colored dew-spangled brushwood.
The gravestones in the old church-yard glimmered gray among the brushwood, as the fugitives picked their way through it.
He arrived late at a village, and finding there was good feed in the churchyard and that everybody was in bed, he put his donkeys in and stretched himself out among the gravestones to sleep.
The gravestones that formerly paved the precinct of Westminster Abbey have been removed, to make way for grassy lawns intersected with pathways.
It is, indeed, because so many storied names are written upon gravestones that the explorer of the old churches of London finds so rich a harvest of impressive association and lofty thought.
The gravestones are laid east and west, and all but one present inscriptions.
But gravestones are proverbially dull reading, and inscriptions are often as cold as the stone upon which they are engraved.
Footnote 1: It is probable that most of the gravestones upon which this heathen formula is found are not of an earlier date than the middle of the fourth century.
There is no parade of words on the gravestones of the martyrs.
No one who has read many of the ancient gravestones but remembers the bitter words that are often found on them,--words of indignation against the gods, of weariness of life, of despair and unconsoled melancholy.
There is no departure from the usual simplicity of the gravestones in those of this class.
Most of the early gravestones bear no date; and it was not till the fourth century, that, with many other changes, the custom of carving a date upon them became general.
Still there is evidence enough that even in the first two centuries some of the mighty and some of the noble at Rome were among those called, but that evidence is not to be gathered from the gravestones of the catacombs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gravestones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
