Holden would have turned in his grave at the description.
Wringing grave warnings from confident descriptions, Robertson's poems aim more to astonish than to delight.
The Merovingians left little, because their art consisted mainly of small-scale metalwork (jewelry and ecclesiastical objects) that survives only from grave finds and written descriptions.
They continued on their journey the next day because "Mr. Jay's maxim is to prefer business to pleasure". Description of graves along the roadside, aridity of southern Spain.
The above description of their grave and courteous hostilities was not, in fact, designed for these two men; it was written in July 1836, in the fifth installment of "The Pickwick Papers," or, to give it the correct title, "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club".
And "Man-Sized Wreath," from this year's album "Accelerate"(Warner Brothers), was inspired, he said, by the day in 2004 when, met by several hundred protesters, President Bush visited — or, in Mr. Stipe's description, "desecrated" — the grave of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Before work begins, someone needs to "survey" the cemetery--that means, take down in writing the content of all the grave markers, with as much description of the style of the marker and its relationship to other markers, as possible.
He was once told that the body of a man matching his son's description had been found in a mass grave close to Grozny's cannery.
"The grave site has been difficult to pinpoint because the descriptions are, in fact, general, and in most cases secondhand," said H. Arthur Bankoff, the chairman of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Brooklyn College.
And his description of the high unemployment rate as a "grave concern" drew particular notice from his well-versed audience.
