Sentence examples for grave memories from inspiring English sources

Then came On the Portrait of a Deaf Man, in which Betjeman remembers his father while staring at his grave; memories of silent walks in country lanes mingling with thoughts of the maggots now collecting in his dad's eyes.

If evidence surfaces that an explosive device was planted on the Metrojet airliner, the effect on the civil aviation industry will be chilling, evoking grave memories of past such attacks – and attempted attacks - going back to the Lockerbie disaster in 1988 when a bomb planted in the luggage by a Libyan agent brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 killing all 270 people on board.

Putin responded that religious organizations should be protected, because "the country has very grave memories of the initial period of Soviet rule, when a huge number of priests suffered.

Her mother tossed an inexpensive local chocolate bar, a flower and a sachet of powdered milk into the grave as memories of a daughter gone almost before she knew her, and the funeral was over.

And there are a variety of maladies that might grab you on the way to the grave: illnesses, memory loss, lack of energy - plenty of health problems to go around.

"I see my mother's grave, a memory of the lightning bolt, / Still smoldering, the undying outrage committed against her," he says bitterly, in one of several lines that have the spare elegance of Christopher Logue's interpretation of Homer's Iliad.

Among the highlights are an account of visiting Borges's grave in Geneva, memories of his years as a book-thief, thoughts on Martin Amis's Experience, Thomas Harris, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain and Mario Vargas Llosa, and a wonderfully vivid interview (his last) that he gave to the Mexican edition of Playboy.

Tyrion might derive some cold comfort hoping his own legacy proves equally ambiguous rather than swept into the grave of lost memories.

Led by his widow, Marina, a small cluster of friends and associates offered prayers and thoughts at Mr. Litvinenko's grave Monday in memory of the drama that began after he sipped from a toxic brew on Nov. 1, 2006, at a hotel bar in Grosvenor Square in London, just across the way from the American Embassy.

The Haggler witnessed this phenomenon once and will go to his grave with the horrific memory of two people nattering over a plea for quiet.

Yet her own grave is lost to memory, jumbled and forgotten with the rest of the slave remains -- somewhere, historians surmise, beneath what is now a Hampton Inn motel.