Which preposition to use with tombstones

of Occurrences 23%

Many strophes are found in them of the same meter as those on the tombstones of the Viking Age and those in which the songs of the Edda are chiefly written.

in Occurrences 20%

How old Ethan Allen and General Stark, "Old Put," and the other glorious names that enrich the pages of our revolutionary history, would open their eyes in astonishment, if they could come back from "the other side of Jordan," and sit for a little while on their own tombstones in sight of the railroads, and see the trains as they go rushing like a tornado along their native valleys.

for Occurrences 9%

As she heard the words Edith Morriston stood for a moment as though transfixed, and then staggered back grasping at a tombstone for support.

on Occurrences 5%

Then a horror of the darkness seized me, and before I well knew what I was about I found myself wriggling my body up under the tombstone on to the churchyard grass, and was once more in the low evening sunlight and the soft sweet air.

with Occurrences 4%

It was Ratsey the sexton at work in a shed which opened on the street, lettering a tombstone with a mallet and graver.

over Occurrences 4%

Nor was it the mere love of country, as such, for he was seized with a particular wish to be where Mary lay in the churchyard of the Canongate, to erect a tombstone over her, to seek out her relations and enrich them, to make a worship out of a disappointed love, to dedicate the last of his thoughts to the small souvenirs of her humble life.

by Occurrences 2%

You will be, all right; they'll put up your tombstone by a public subscription.

to Occurrences 2%

No lesson went on that day; no talking of pretty mamma sleeping in the green grave; no jumping from the tombstone to the ground; no merry jokes or pleasant stories.

behind Occurrences 1%

It was not difficult to divine that they were itinerant showmenexhibitors of the freaks of Punchfor, perched cross-legged upon a tombstone behind them, was a figure of that hero himself, his nose and chin as hooked, and his face as beaming as usual; while scattered upon the ground, and jumbled together in a long box, were the other persons of the drama.

at Occurrences 1%

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

under Occurrences 1%

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

like Occurrences 1%

I heard him laughing like a hobgoblin, and saw him too, grinning over a tombstone like the malicious elf he is.

Which preposition to use with  tombstones