The Turks bury their dead as we do, my dear Maggie, and they plant their graveyards with cypresses, which, standing tall and dark among the headstones of the graves, have a very picturesque effect.
There was, perhaps, a graveyard, but the headstones had been so few that one could tell but little of it now.
I took up my place behind a yew-tree, and I saw his dark figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.
Then I too moved; but I had to go round headstones and railed-off tombs, and I stumbled over graves.
I have spoken of the headstones that mark these graves, but the Burtons have a nobler monument.
Graves where once the headstones had teetered in neglect lay now in rows of ordered care, and those who slept in them no longer slept among the briars of over-grown thickets.
Mounting the slope beyond the bridge, the colonel's stride now carefully accommodated to the child's puny step, they skirted a low brick wall, beyond which white headstones gleamed in a mass of verdure.
The low fence around it had been repaired, and several leaningheadstones straightened up.
Across the fields and on a shady hillside, there were white headstones gleaming in the fading sunlight.
A form of Script very nearly allied to the Italic was frequently used for the lettering on headstones and wall tombs in the churches and churchyards of England.
Turning from the story of Plymouth, as written on the lichen-covered headstones on Burial Hill, let us wend our way under the shady elms of Court Street to Pilgrim Hall, built in 1824 by the Pilgrim Society, instituted four years earlier.
Then I too moved, but I had to go round headstones and railed-off tombs, and I stumbled over graves.
I took up my place behind a yew tree, and I saw his dark figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.
The headstones of Goffe and Whalley are marked in the same obscure way.
These brief, stammering illuminations brought out with ghastly distinctness the monuments and headstones of the cemetery and seemed to set them dancing.
They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all.
Do ye ask who reared those headstones there, And crowned with thorns a sire's gray hair?
On one of the headstones I read the name of Ed Richmond, and the date of his end.
At Carlisle, the headstones had attained the height of six or seven feet at least, and were deeply carved with coats of arms, &c.
The grave-yard is pretty well filled with headstones and tombs, and some that seem to belong to good families.
As you approach the Scottish border you see the headstones getting taller and taller, and the altar-tombs more and more massive.
But the Mariposa children still walk round and read the headstones lying flat in the grass and look for the old ones,--because some of them are ever so old--forty or fifty years back.
About it was the old cemetery, but that was all smoothed out later into the grass plot round the new church, and the headstones laid out flat, and no new graves have been put there for ever so long.
But their graves need no headstones to tell of the valor, nobleness of purpose, and self-sacrifice that our nation might live and breathe the pure air of freedom.
Here on a lofty elevation of ground stood the headstones of Louise May Alcott, Thoreau and Charming, with that of Hawthorne enclosed by a fence and withdrawn a short distance.
Behind is a curious burial-ground, crowded with tombs, chiefly of women, marked by a sculptured rose, whilst theheadstones of the men are crowned by a turban or fez.
Little parcels of food are laid in holes by the side of the grave, and large headstones are always erected, stones on which the angels Nebir and Munkir sit to judge the souls of the dead.
Nevertheless he was smitten with a kind of dismay as he looked around upon the low, drabheadstones and perceived with what singular significance the marble rose above them.
The wind falls low, The trees swing slowly to and fro: Around the church the headstones grey Cluster, like children strayed away But found again, and folded so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headstones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
