Sentence examples for in headstone from inspiring English sources

The Jets were soon 13-3 losers, four-time failures on the West Coast against some of the N.F.L.'s most cooperative opposition, and there is no better play to epitomize how this season will be cast in headstone if it dies Sunday at Giants Stadium against Miami.

And powering her through the bravura performance is that wig — that hair with its own legacy, that hair that is represented in the headstone in the Texas State Cemetery, in an East Austin neighborhood as eclectic as the marginalized beneficiaries of Ms. Richards's governance.

We see here the graves of Susan Sontag, Constantin Brancusi, and Amedeo Modigliani and his partner Jeanne H terne in Paris; Percy Bysshe Shelley's grave in Rome; William Blake's headstone in London; and Walt Whitman's tomb in Camden, N.J.

Even in the headstone business, one finds the same pleasant urgency which permeates all life: salesmen for the Rock of Ages Corporation were smoking cigars and swapping stories, and just beyond them we came face to face with a labor-saving machine which would cut eight to sixteen inches of granite per minute, so hasty the living, so precious the dead.

It was in a headstone on the grave next to my daughter's.

Reeling from insane gentrification and an increasing tourist presence in the city, Berlin's freedom-seeking cosmopolitans will tell you it's just one more chip in a headstone that reads "There goes the neighborhood".

They rented a strange house in Gorton that had snail trails in the lounge and a headstone in the corner of the living room.

In Turkey, headstones are carved in the shape of the headdress distinctive to the order to which the deceased belonged and are tinctured in the appropriate colours.

And yet Gilbert, who died in 2000, now lies beneath a Hebrew headstone in a Jewish cemetery in Willesden, north-west London because, as his son writes pointedly, "he had, intriguingly, omitted to make more secular arrangements".

Despite the rumours, Mr Hutton remains convinced that the real Billy the Kid rests under the caged headstone in Fort Sumner.In Alamo, we pass piles of rubble, imagining the hard times the homesteaders must have endured.

At its best, however, the imagery cleanses and reinvigorates the ideas in play: a sequence in a headstone-filled forest seems to touch on the defeat of human agency by nature threatened in the Baba Yaga story, when the sight of a pensioner picking mushrooms amid the graves turns things on their head.