tombstone
墓碑,墓石,墓志铭,墓地
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- : a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.
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Arnuby carries a picture of his brother’s tombstone and his death certificate, which lists strangulation as the cause.
“Sacks are a QB stat” could be on my tombstone, and yet I don’t listen to myself.
“A lot of the tombstones were toppled and broken,” said Grace, describing the former state of the cemetery.
Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.
“What I would really like to put on my tombstone is that I was part of my time,” he says.
“The NTC pretends to govern, but it doesn't have any real power in the interior,” Tombstone tells him.
The problem gets occasional publicity when a rock star steps in and buys a tombstone for a blues great.
Or you could have a tombstone that reads “Here does not lie Ann Patchett.”
For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.
Inscription copied, Nov. 21, 1833, from a tombstone to a fisherman in Bathford churchyard.
Only he had carved on the Girl's tombstone the last verse of the Song of the Girl, which stands at the head of this story.
His tombstone in the churchyard consists of an anvil and hammer, wrought in stone.