The headstone of the grave in Ventnor churchyard bears record of her death.
There was a headstone there, but the snow was so deep the engineer didn't see it.
And upon the headstone she inscribed the one word "Waste.
She was mourning for him, setting up a headstone to him in her memory; for he was as dead to her as though Van Bleit's bullet after effecting its deed of violence had sped through the darkness and spent itself in his heart.
Bradley Headstone and Charley Hexam duly got to the Surrey side of Westminster Bridge, and crossed the bridge, and made along the Middlesex shore towards Millbank.
I told Mr Headstone you were not settled, Liz, but he was so kind as to take an interest in coming, and so I brought him.
Such were the circumstances that had brought together, Bradley Headstone and young Charley Hexam that autumn evening.
It happened that Bradley Headstone noticed a very slight action of Lizzie Hexam's hand, as though it checked the doll's dressmaker.
It was not so much in deference to these strong testimonials to character, as in his restless casting about for any way or help towards the discovery on which he was concentrated, that Bradley Headstone replied: 'You needn't take offence.
Though all unseen, and unsuspected by the pupils, Bradley Headstone even pervaded the school exercises.
Do what Bradley Headstone would, he could not keep that former flush of impatience out of his face, or so master his eyes as to prevent their again looking anxiously up the river.
Very remarkably, neither Eugene Wrayburn nor Bradley Headstone looked at all at the boy.
If Mr Bradley Headstone had addressed a written proposal of marriage to her, she would probably have replied in a complete little essay on the theme exactly a slate long, but would certainly have replied Yes.
Mr Headstone says, "Then I may rely upon your intimate knowledge of me for your good word with your sister, Hexam?
Bradley Headstone was so remarkably awkward at these exercises, that the Rogue observed it.
I wonder you don't remember that Mr Headstone is looking on.
He had been mason before he became fisherman, and was handy with his tools; so that if anyone wanted a headstone set up in the churchyard, he went to Ratsey to get it done.
I have told you already of the verses which Mr. Glennie wrote for David Block's grave; and when the floods had gone down Ratsey set up the headstone with the poetry carved on it.
The man who loved her comes back to Our Square from time to time, at which times there are fresh flowers on Minnie's mound, below the headstone reading: "Beloved Wife of Christopher Hines.
The headstone was of marble, and had been sculptured with a poetic fancy; a boy, in whose face Charnock could trace a likeness to Miranda, looked out and laughed between the open lattices of a window.
By making an effort one can peep through and see a simple headstone with the name Hawthorne.
It is marked with a small headstone and the single name, Henry.
And he said he wanted no headstone over him, that fox and hounds and horses might go over his grave.
Close beside the corner of the north transept was the empty grave, as you know, and beside it a quaint old headstone with an interesting coat-of-arms upon it.
I thought of Hamlet's soliloquy on Yorick as I stood by her unkept grave, with its headstone fallen and broken.
Turning away from the vault, and passing down the yard, I came to a grave the headstone of which had fallen, and was broken.
It consists simply of a long uncovered pile of stones, somewhat resembling a potato-pie, with a headstone at either end, and a collection of fossils from the neighbouring mountains arranged along the top.
Also here we saw many graves of the Debalohp family--neat heaps of white stones, with a double row of white stones forming a pattern around them, and a headstone towards Mecca, on one of which was a rude Arabic inscription.
The headstone itself bore not a vestige of moss, but time had cracked it diagonally and the chiselled letters were weathered away.
Yet pause by one low mound, and part The wild vines o'er it laced, And read the words by rustic art Upon its headstone traced.
We came out into a dismal glade in the heart of the black woods, and there was the grave and the headstone with the words upon it.
The placing of his name on the headstone of the grave was a ghastly joke, and nothing more.
Perhaps so; but you remember he told us there was a grave on the island and the headstone was marked, 'Sacred to the memory of Rawson Denning.
He dreaded to return and report that they had discovered nothing save the name of the missing lad on the headstone of a grave.
As Merry was looking at the headstone it seemed that a voice in the air above them hoarsely whispered: "Dead and buried!
All at once, with astonishing suddenness, he came out into the opening and there before him was the grave, the headstone gleaming gray in the dim light.
The headstone remained in Ezra's outhouse till, growing tired of seeing it there, he put it away among the bushes at the bottom of his garden.
The next event was the arrival of a headstone by carrier from the nearest town; to be left at Mr. Ezra Cattstock's; all expenses paid.
The headstone grew green as it lay on its back under Ezra's bushes; then a tree by the river was blown down, and, falling across the stone, cracked it in three pieces.
Do you think He will stop before theheadstone is put on?
He who is Himself the foundation-stone is also the headstone of the corner, which is brought forth with shouting of 'Grace!
We hear it again from the lips that cannot lie: 'Did ye never read in the Scriptures, The Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the headstone of the corner?
Some social friends, whose good feelings were better than their taste, have ornamented with supplemental iron work the headstone which Burns erected, with this inscription to the memory of his brother bard, Fergusson.
There is a more recent case in which the same idea is pourtrayed in somewhat different fashion on a headstone in the obsolete graveyard of St. Oswald, near the Barracks at York.
It will be noticed that we have in this instance a form of headstone differing materially from those of later times, and wherever we find the rude incised figure we nearly always have the stone of this shape.
Above the coffin on Alderton's headstoneis an ornament, apparently palms.
It is found, however, on a headstone of a somewhat weak design in Old Hornsey Churchyard.
I took off my hat and respectfully saluted that finger-post, and was soon in the churchyard, where I haply lighted upon one of the gems of my collection, the headstone sculpture of "The Good Samaritan.
I was sauntering about the churchyard at Newhaven in Sussex, reading the inscriptions on the tombs, when my eyes fell upon a headstone somewhat elaborately carved.
Betwixt suspense and terror, and the wildness of grief, I was obliged to lean on the headstone for support, and a giddiness came over me.
