I replied that I was not that interested in tombstones and cemeteries altogether. From Wordnik.com. [How I Became an Overnight Success in Seventy-Five Years] Reference
With the homes torn down and chimneys broken, the tombstones were the only remaining thing Granny had. From Wordnik.com. [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference
The illegible one says "graveyard" - just in case their so-called tombstones didn't get the point across. From Wordnik.com. [Cue Cards, Please?] Reference
Insert props (such as tombstones carved from Styrofoam or skeleton hands). From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
"I came from the land of tombstones, which is an advantage; as I know the road we all must travel, sooner or later. From Wordnik.com. [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference
Underground cables are easily accessible in surface posts and "tombstones", boxes often located in residential neighborhoods. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
There are also many tombstones of the Gilliat family. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Walls guarding tombstones of generations of Petrol-Froths. From Wordnik.com. [ISLANDS] Reference
Atlantic gales that the very tombstones have been buttressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Many of the tombstones were old dating as far back as the 1700's. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.18: Me?] Reference
The chancel is almost entirely paved with tombstones of the Vyners. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Crinkled, dry leaves color sucked out litter the ground like tombstones. From Wordnik.com. [PALTRY POULTRY POETRY: A Collection of Unprose From the Mind of a Senile Teen] Reference
There are several flat tombstones of Hughsons and Oldhams in the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The buried Cadillacs look like the tombstones of the American age of excess. From Wordnik.com. ['The Highway That's The Best'] Reference
They made their way out into an opening and before Megumi were two tombstones. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi Zero - v.2: Megumi's Fable, the Advance] Reference
The pavement is formed by the tombstones of those who have been interred here. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Among the tombstones moved from there, when it was given up, were those of James. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
Yet, the tombstones, the inscriptions on which are extant, have left to posterity. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
And all of their tombstones have quotes from his lyrics, says his niece Nancy Gerard. From Wordnik.com. [100 Years Of Johnny Mercer, Pop Poet Laureate] Reference
Carpets had been laid down over the dilapidated pavement, composed principally of tombstones. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Iron tombstones one meets with too in a few of the churches and churchyards in the iron district. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The Highlanders and the French grenadiers fought in the cemetery, across the graves and tombstones. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Adjoining this was a terrace-plot of ground, dotted over with what looked like Liliputian tombstones. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
The monuments are either granite Buddhas, seated on lotus, or upright tombstones with inscriptions in gold. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The teeth have been called crooked as medieval tombstones, but that describes a very lightly populated cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [The Pogues Give N.Y. a St. Patty's Day Treat] Reference
So benriya accompany older family members to the graveyards, and while there clean the tombstones and lay flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Very Handy Handymen] Reference
The powder obtained by scraping the tombstones of saints, when placed in water or wine, was in great repute as a remedy. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
West Hoathly has some iron tombstones, such as used to be cast in the old furnace days, which are not uncommon in these parts. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
A masterful politician once told an audience that we should live our lives on a journey destined for the words on our tombstones. From Wordnik.com. [David Helfenbein: The Facebook News Feed and Twitter Generation] Reference
I had never been told in simple words, that my own mother lay under one of those tall silent tombstones in the graveyard, where old. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Hedges, your Parkers, and your Purdys; for the rest I had to go to your cemetery, over yonder, and read their names on the tombstones. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
But Emily Dickinson is particularly fascinated with not just death but the circumstances of death, the funerals and tombstones and graves. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson] Reference
Commonwealth in England, it is not surprising that Mrs. Yeardley's necklace did not bring even the price of the two tombstones, which cost. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Nothing else had come up, though there were many beds, with small slips of board, like miniature tombstones, showing what had been planted. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
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