tomb-stone

Remember it was his dying request that his name should not be on his tomb-stone, and that the words "Here lies one whose name was writ in water" should be there.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

Since this is the only community Brown seems capable of conceiving, he becomes a "stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man," so that, at the end of his life, "they carved no hopeful verse upon his tomb-stone; for his dying hour was gloom" (90).

National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006

The whole place is a confused accumulation of heaps of earth, wide pits, rubbish, without a single regular tomb-stone.

Travels in Arabia 2003

Gaillarde himself filled the coffin, on the cover of which that false name was inscribed as well as upon a tomb-stone over the grave.

The Room in the Dragon Volant 2003

It lies in the large burial-ground of the Mala, at the declivity of the western chain; is enclosed by a square wall, and presents no objects of curiosity except the tomb-stone, which has a fine inscription in Cufic characters, containing a passage of the Koran from the chapter entitled, Souret el Kursy.

Travels in Arabia 2003

Bishop of Exeter, there can be no doubt, since the epitaph inscribed on the tomb-stone, copied in _Stow's Survey_, clearly states him to be so.

Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Various

-- EDINENSIS. gives the above as the inscription on a tomb-stone, and requests an explanation.

Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 Various

Before leaving the City, accompanied by her brother, Mrs. Harris visited the grave of her husband; and the generous brother attended to the erection of a suitable tomb-stone, as the widow had before been unable to meet the expenses of it.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

_Emigravit_ is the inscription on the tomb-stone where he lies;

Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer Jennie Ellis Keysor

Here we see him, while others are intent on the holy service, transgressing the laws both of God and man, gambling on a tomb-stone with the off-scouring of the people, the meanest of the human species, shoe-blacks, chimney-sweepers, &c. for none but such would deign to be his companions.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler