The Delabole slate had been employed for many centuries for tombstones and monuments, and lent itself surprisingly to being sculptured.
It would have taken a whole cemetery o' tombstones to put down all they said about him, and then they'd ha' had to cut the letters small.
Noisy, too, they was, an' the things they said about the man they'd just been wanting to give granitetombstones to was simply astonishing.
Some of thetombstones are flat on the ground, some erect, or laid horizontally on low pillars or masonry.
And so we turned into Dean's Yard, and from thence to the cloisters, pausing now and again to read the inscriptions on the tombstones over which we walked.
A sooty graveyard where the sparrows quarrel in the plane trees at dusk, and the mouldering tombstones stir the imagination to dreams and reflection.
I had exhausted the possibilities of interest in the old Gothic church, and felt all that a man should feel in deciphering the mural tombstones of the families who were exiled for their faith in the days of the Reformation.
Turkish tombstones and a torrent, which they saw by the flashes of lightning.
It was a circle with only one free access, and that from the gate; it had tombstones standing in the midst of it, and there were the charred remains of sacrifices about them.
Old tombstones to a Shackel, Shekel or Shackle family—the name is spelled in many ways—abound here.
It represents three white altar-tombs on a green ground; to speak in the language of heraldry: Vert, three tombstones argent.
The space enclosed by the cloistered walk, usually made cheerful by green grass, has a pavement of tombstones laid in regular ranges.
Either the fashion of thus commemorating the dead is not ancient in Florence, or the old tombstones have been removed to make room for new ones.
Mrs. Kearny was always fond of writing epitaphs to embellish the tombstones of departed Amboyites, but as the years progressed she developed a very morbid strain.
The quizzical, genial Olando in his little shop, cutting posies and weeping willows on tombstones or making tall mahogany clocks with wonderful embellishments, still lives in the minds of many of the islanders.
I'd be careful 'ow I spoke disrespectfully of tombstones if I was in your places, that's wot I would.
Night and day he was shut in his shop, and for two months he came with no epitaphs for the Cure, and no new tombstoneswere set up in the graveyard.
It was during this time that some good Catholics came to him with an heretical Protestant suggestion to carve a couplet or verse of poetry on thetombstones they ordered.
Rogers has not merely collected the epitaphs and inscriptions on the tombstones and monuments of Scotland, but he often gives illustrative particulars of a biographical and historical character.
Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monuments erected in Memory of the Covenanters.
The sight of tombstones and graves, the death of a near relative or friend, or any kindred event, at once brings with it serious reflections.
Even the sight of an old churchyard with a heap of ruined tombstones could not check his buffoonery.
She must find strength to throw off her brother's scorn and the busts and tombstones before she again met her lover.
All the same the busts and tombstones weighed heavily upon her.
Then the motor car in front jerks forward, and the tombstones pass too quick for you to read more.
And then it pelts the smooth domes of the mosques, and makes the cypresses, standing stiff by the turbaned tombstones of Mohammedans, creak and bristle.
Then, perhaps, a mason's van with newly lettered tombstones recording how some one loved some one who is buried at Putney.
At the western end of this the tombstones cluster thickly, though many of the inscriptions are now quite illegible.
The church was built on the old burial-ground, and the tombstones which were removed in the course of erection are placed in long rows round a low wall.
Ford, to whose laborious and painstaking work is due the record of the tombstones in the old burial-ground, made also a list of these flags, and drawings of those recognisable.
The tombstones mentioned in the previous chapter prove this, for not one of them bears the name of any British soldier.
These tombstones were discovered in the year 1883 inside the base of the north wall of the city of Chester while the wall was being repaired.
A number of these relics are tombstones of the legionary soldiers who were stationed here.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tombstones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
