22 adjectives to describe tombstones

There is a small graveyard in front of the church containing a few flat tombstones and six young trees which have rather a struggling time of it in windy weather.

"You just wait till we die, and see which of us two has the finer tombstone!"

Suppose, having collected a ship-load of broken tombstones, he should forward them to the Polynesian Museum, and set the savans of the age at work deciphering their inscriptions, what sense would be made out of these epitaphs?

One inscription in the graveyard surrounding the church is as early as 1701, and even earlier dates are found on tombstones in the fields a mile distant.

Among the places visited was the churchyard, and the bride paused before a very elaborate tombstone that had been erected by the bridegroom.

Another momentthey had leaped the rails; and there they swept round under the gray wall, leaping and yelling, like Berserk fiends among the frowning tombstones, over the cradles of the quiet dead.

The moon was shining clear as day, so that I could see the gray tombstones and the white skulls; when, all at once, I thought one of them began to move.

On the left-hand side, in the loneliest part of the road, is the gruesome tombstone which marks the spot where an unknown sailor was murdered and robbed while tramping from Portsmouth to London.

He was particularly glad to meet with a handy tombstone, for he said that a tombstone was the next thing to a church, and that to be married by the side of a tomb would be almost as solemn as to be married in a minister's study.

I married them not two minutes ago, standing on that identical tombstone.'

Soon a woman arrived with the key of the church-door, and we entered the simple old edifice, which has the pavement of lettered tombstones, the sturdy pillars and low arches, and other ordinary characteristics of an English country-church.

They buried him in the churchyard of Cheasing Eyebright, near to the largest yew, and the modest tombstone bearing his epitaphit ended with:

I see around me piteous tombstones grey Stretching their shadows far away.

It was pavement, wrought all over with figures, like sculptured tombstones.

In the Parish Church of Playford, near Ipswich, Suffolk, was a splendid brass tombstone to Sir Thomas Felbrigg.

My hostess plucked my sleeve and pointed to a tiny tombstone under a camellia tree.

Two small upright tombstones, immediately adjoining the chapel, and a few flat slabs on the ground below, are the only sepulchural indications remaining here.

He spoke to someone across the aisle and smiled, showing a set of huge white teeth, veritable tombstones.

There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.

Lythe Church, standing in its wind-swept graveyard full of blackened tombstones, need not keep us, for, although its much-modernized exterior is simple and ancient-looking, the interior is devoid of any interest.

He sat down upon a worn tombstone in this lowly ruin, and with his eyes fixed upon the ground, he surrendered his spirit to the stormy and evil thoughts which he had invited.

And it seemed to Anthony that it was only a moment ago that the key turned in the lock of John Bard's secret room, the hidden chamber which he kept like Bluebeard for himself, where he went like Bluebeard to see his past; only an instant before he had turned the key in that lock, the door opened, and this was the scene which met his eyesthe grave, the blurred tombstone, and the stern figure beyond.

22 adjectives to describe  tombstones