And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. From LearnThat.org. [Robert Frost.]
Palfrey and Hedge read Parker's Latin epitaph on Chev, amazed at the bad Latinity. From Wordnik.com. [Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910] Reference
The simplicity of this scene recalls the epitaph which is said to have been written in honor of. From Wordnik.com. [Women of the Romance Countries] Reference
The epitaph was the production of Pratt, author of Harvest. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The epitaph is a plain marble slab containing only a name. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
An Elegicall epitaph, made upon the death of that mirror of women. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
Ernest Hemingway once became known for writing a six word epitaph. From Wordnik.com. [Lee Schneider: 500 Words On 500 Words] Reference
Alpinula and her epitaph were the happy inventions of a sixteenth-century scholar. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference
It may well be doubted whether David's interpretation of the epitaph was the correct one. From Wordnik.com. [David Elginbrod] Reference
Another epitaph is a shining example of the proper manner of attributing to the dead an almost crushing superfluity of virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
You didn't perhaps mean to say "epitaph," did you?. From Wordnik.com. [There's an awful lot of instinctive revulsion toward Bobby Jindal.] Reference
“Starved to Death in a Toronto Toilet” is not the kind of epitaph anyone could live down. From Wordnik.com. [power failure: potty paradox! « raincoaster] Reference
"A philosophicall epitaph in hierogliphicall figures. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850] Reference
I very much like an epitaph which is found upon a woman's grave in New. From Wordnik.com. [The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels] Reference
On that, too, might have been written the epitaph which is on the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren. From Wordnik.com. [The Explorer] Reference
Next in line is PM Winston Churchill with his funny epitaph, which is: "I'm ready to meet my Maker. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
You really can't top Spike Milligan's epitaph which is written in Irish and translates to "I told you I was ill.". From Wordnik.com. [NASIOC] Reference
As to John Carlyle, he has not been near me, and I don't feel at all tempted to earn either the 'epitaph' or the 'teapot.'. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Rocket dust rain epitaph. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: More Than One Universe - Arthur C. Clarke] Reference
Retaliation, Goldsmith's "epitaph" on Burke, 37-40). From Wordnik.com. [Annotations] Reference
Writes the 138-year-old paper's (probable) "epitaph:". From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient "(from Retaliation, Goldsmith's" epitaph "on Burke, 37-40). From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Walk (Broadside version)] Reference
And of course you have heard the following epitaph. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
In the graveyard is the epitaph of George Daniell, the founder of. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Still, it is far too early to write an epitaph for the Age of Obama. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama Agenda and the Enthusiasm Gap] Reference
Again he was defeated, and again the epitaph was jubilantly rewritten. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
But his own choicer Latin in the epitaph he wrote for the learned Peter. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
"What I would like my epitaph to say is simply that 'He was a good priest'.". From Wordnik.com. [Perspectives] Reference
Those words, from Puccini's "Tosca," could have been an epitaph for Maria Callas. From Wordnik.com. [Maria Callas, The Legend Who Lived for Her Art] Reference
Among Aaliyah's hits was "At Your Best (You Are Love)" - which could be her epitaph. From Wordnik.com. [Exalted One] Reference
He was so proud of his accomplishment in this area that he asked that his epitaph read. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Levin, J.D.: Islamophobia Threatens Tea Party's Ties to Its Origins and Future] Reference
I didn't want to die because my epitaph would have been a vilification of an unfinished life. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Ignorance] Reference
On a wall among the ruins, someone has painted an epitaph of sorts: place of ethnic cleansing. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds Of Rage] Reference
Parker's defeat by Roosevelt again erased that ever-recurring epitaph over Bryan's political grave. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
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