27 Verbs to Use for the Word tombstone

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.

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.

His leisure was spent in his workshop, and during this period he not only carved a tombstone for his uncle's grave, but built a housePhoenix cottageboth of which are still standing and may be seen.

I have news about the sale of the book that ought to cheer a tombstone.

Grandfather Locke named us, and charged father not to consult the Morgeson tombstones for names.

There the soldier made an excuse for retiring behind a monument, and Niceros sat down to wait for him, humming a tune and counting the tombstones to pass the time.

Fergusson supposes that the original intention was to cover the tombstone and raised platform of the uppermost story with a domed canopy, and in this he is supported by a statement of William Finch, who visited the mausoleum when it was being built, that it was to be "inarched over with the most curious white and speckled marble, to be ceiled all within with pure sheet gold richly inwrought."

I shall go and inquire of the stone-cutter, that cuts the tombstones here, what a stone with a short inscription will cost; just to say"Here C. Lamb loved his brethren of mankind."

A Gentleman's Magazine epigrammatist, sharing Lamb's view, wrote: Stranger, to whom this monument is shown, Invoke the poet's curse upon Malone; Whose meddling zeal his barbarous taste betrays, And daubs his tombstone, as he mars his plays.

Thereupon he stalked home and read the Memoirs of Eminent Etonians, and learnt from their perusal that it was indeed possible to earn a finer tombstone than any Jenkins possessed.

Some member of the family happening years afterwards to stroll through a very old cemetery in Dublin, curiosity or idleness led him to examine the tombstones.

I should like to see the gravestones which have been disturbed all removed, and the ground levelled, leaving the flat tombstones; epitaphs were never famous for truth, but the old reproach of "Here lies" never had such a wholesale illustration as in these outraged burial-places, where the stone does lie above, and the bones do not lie beneath.]

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

If the dead could rise from their graves they would bear witness thereof: if we saw them in the moonlight lift the tombstone and step forth towards the cloister, they would say: "Blessed be these walls!"

I do not like tombstones, having had too much of them in 'arly youth, and feel as if I want sea-room.

"I'm making a tombstone.

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.

Somehow or other it seemed rather like reading one's own tombstone, and I couldn't help wondering whether I was in the main hall or whether I had been dignified with an eligible site in the Chamber of Horrors.

We eagerly encouraged the old man to this task, and he went to work in removing the green sod from a large slab which had been entirely hidden under the soil, and in a brief space revealed to us a tombstone fully six feet long, upon which we were able to read, in plainly chiselled letters, an inscription surmounted by a carved heraldic shield with its proper quarterings and devices.

I had no opportunity of judging of the neat pavement of the floor of the nave, in white and black marble, as noticed by Ducarel, on account of the occupation of this part of the building by the manufacturing children; but I saw some very ancient tombstones, one, I think, of the twelfth century, which had been removed from the nave or side aisles, and were placed against the sides of the north transept.

At St. Edmund, Sarum, the wardens sold tombstones for the benefit of the parish (Acc'ts, 135. 1587-8). Memorials of Stepney, 39-40.

It's enough to make the Elder rise up afore ye, to hear ye say sech a thing, Eben Hill; 'n' ef 'twan't jest the funeral that 'tis, I b'leeve I'd thrash ye right an' left, here'n sight o' yer own mother's tombstone, ye miserable, sneakin' fool.

Aunt Margaret proposed to use Mrs. Margaret's tombstone for her own.

It was on a fine, calm evening, just after sunset, that I first visited the tombstone of Albert Dürer; and I shall always remember the sensations, with which that visit was attended, as among the most pleasing and impressive of my life.

They want to buy me a tombstone, an' I don't want it.

27 Verbs to Use for the Word  tombstone