Tombstone
['tuːmstəʊn] or ['tumston]
Definition
(n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
Editor: William
Examples
- I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- THE NARRATIVE OF THE TOMBSTONE Sacred to the Memory of Laura, Lady Glyde, wife of Sir Percival Glyde, Bart. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Not a man was left behind but the clerk--the poor old clerk standing on the flat tombstone sobbing and wailing over the church. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They would eat a tombstone if they could bite it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Never know'd a churchyard were there wos a postboy's tombstone, or see a dead postboy, did you? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So, Stephen Blackpool's tombstone, with her father's record of his death, was almost of the Present, for she knew it was to be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange, unearthly figure, whom Gabriel felt at once, was no being of this world. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There she sat in a place whence she could see the head of the boy under his father's tombstone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We stood face to face with the tombstone between us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Give me your word of honour that you will allow no monument of any sort--not even the commonest tombstone--to mark the place of my burial. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On the top of the churchyard wall is a tombstone, on which are cut in high relief, two ravens, or such-like birds. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- 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.
Typist: Ted