Sentence examples for in gravestone from inspiring English sources

According to Drinkwater, enthusiasm for all things colonial around the 1976 bicentennial led to spike in interest in gravestone studies that proved integral to the founding of AGS.

To tell you the truth, I'm no great believer in gravestones.

Collectors included Herman Strecker, a stonecutter who specialized in gravestones for children — he amassed the largest private collection of butterflies in the country — and Samuel Scudder, whose three-volume "Butterflies of the Eastern U.S. and Canada" was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as a "stupendous" work that "inaugurated a new era in lepidopterology".

For me, Angela's spirit didn't live in the gravestone we visited at the village cemetery, it lived in the bookcase.

Carved in another gravestone, Mr. Webster said, is a letter from a wife to her husband who died during a trip to Baltimore, in which she laments not having had a chance to see him one last time.

For many years, his only legacy in town was a faded gravestone in the Old Center Burying Yard on North Main Street.

His gravestone, in a graveyard in suburban Pittsburgh, has Warhol's original surname, Warhola, the dates of his birth and death and a cross.

Even in their gravestones, I noticed, was a modernist faith in a future they'd helped to create.

SURVEYING the pathetic stump of a gravestone in the tiny British cemetery in Miranshah, Susan Farrington noticed its similarity to another broken lump amid the rubble.

The second was a gravestone in pink highlighter with writing in fluorescent green that said: "R.I.P. SPC Mills SSG Estavano SPC Johnson SSG Proctor SSG Altamarino 1LT Vincent" Most of these soldiers died while I was in Iraq in 2011.

On my daily walk around my neighborhood in Beacon, N.Y., I regularly pass James F. Brown's simple gravestone in the churchyard at the end of my street.