Twenty years of it suffice to give as much antiquity of aspect, whether to tombstone or edifice, as a hundred years of our own drier atmosphere,so soon do the drizzly rains and constant moisture corrode the surface of marble or freestone.

And when he died they put this on his tombstone: "'Come see ye place where I do lie As you are now so once was I: As I be now so you will be, Prepare for death and follow me.'" "Oh," shivered Marjorie, "I don't like it.

" "And on father's tombstone mother put this verse: 'O, my dear wife, do think of me Although we've from each other parted, O, do prepare to follow me Where we shall love forever.'

In the year after the battle of Mylae (495) the consul Lucius Scipio captured the port of Aleria in Corsicawe still possess the tombstone of the general, which makes mention of this deedand made Corsica a naval station against Sardinia.

He hobbled about on crutches for a while, a pensioner of the Medici family, and dying at the age of seventy-eight was buried in Ognissanti, but without a tombstone for fear of desecration by the enemies of Savonarola's adherents.

The last stanza smells somewhat of the country tombstone; but to read the whole and to realize the deep, manly sentiment which it implies, without tears in one's eyes is to me at least impossible.

"If I love a woman, it is not for the pleasure of loving her, nor for the glory of having it written on my tombstone that I have died for her.

" "Which was to say that she left the child in a basket, on a tombstone, in a marble-worker's yard, in town; in the yard of a man whose name was Durfee?"

The great chambers of Tombstone, and the copper veins of the Globe District, the Copper Queen, etc., in Arizona.

The kid was 'is sister's only child, an' 'is uncle left a thousand francs with the American consul for a proper tombstone on 'is grave in the cemetery.

I sat on the rail with Vava's dumb-show uppermost in my mind, and a strong desire came to me to see the grave of David, and the tombstone erected by his frenzied kinsman.

There I perceived that the tombstone had just been raised, for the tools of the cemetery keeper were near by.

In a neglected corner of the old churchyard is the tombstone of John Bucket, one-time landlord of the "King's Head" in Stockbridge.

Not the least remarkable thing about Worth is the tombstone of Benjamin Jesty, who is claimed thereon to be the first person to inoculate for smallpox (1774).

Close to the church door is the tombstone of one Sergeant Lawrence, whose epitaph is a stirring record of military service combined with a dash of real romance, though probably the sergeant's whole life did not have as much of the essence of dreadful war as one twelve months in the career of a present-day city clerk.

In the churchyard is a tombstone with two crutches; this is the grave of the father of Frank Buckland, the famous naturalist, who was born here in 1784.

He swaggered up and down the Paris boulevards showing his tombstone teeth and staring at the women.

Its inscription states that on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart, at the malice of his enemies, be desired these words to be written on his tombstone: "Here lies one whose name was written in water."

In Arreton churchyard, Isle of Wight, is a tombstone, erected in 1822, by subscription, to mark the grave of Elizabeth Wallbridge, the humble individual whose story of piety and virtue, written by the Rev. Leigh Richmond, under the title of the "Dairyman's Daughter," has attained an almost unexampled circulation.

SONNICHSEN, C. L. Billy King's tombstone, the private life of an Arizona boom town.

She has no more feelings than a tombstone.

He took his stick, and marked out a grave on the turf, and said: 'It is there I would wish to be buried, but no tombstone!

Byron's line on Crabbe is inscribed on the poet's tombstone at Trowbridge.

In the churchyard is a curious cross, consisting of a headless shaft mounted on a raised slab, seemingly a tombstone.

So the ladies were introduced, and Julia praised Mary's sketch, and Mary asked leave to add her to it, hanging, with pensive figure, over a tombstone.