Tombstones
[tu:m,stəʊnz]
Examples
- The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I saw him holding by one of the tombstones. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Within a hundred yards of it is the original graveyard, for aught I know; the tombstones lie flat on the ground, which is Jewish fashion in Syria. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nothing but a little grass mound marks the place of his reSt. In time, the tombstones will rise round it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The clerk sat crouched up on one of the tombstones, shivering, and moaning to himself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I believe the Moslems do not allow them to have upright tombstones. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Lyle