1 Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 2 I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, no other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds, that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 3 I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
4 All the old graves were sunken in, there was not a tombstone on the place; round-topped, worm-eaten boards staggered over the graves, leaning for support and finding none.
5 Dark trees interlaced above their heads, dark silent houses loomed up on either side and the white palings of fences gleamed faintly like a row of tombstones.
6 Anybody who would waste precious money on tombstones when food was so dear, so almost unattainable, didn't deserve sympathy.
7 And I don't intend to waste my money on tombstones or my time crying about the war.
8 At the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family tombstones, I had just enough learning to be able to spell them out.
9 There is nothing half so green that I know anywhere, as the grass of that churchyard; nothing half so shady as its trees; nothing half so quiet as its tombstones.
10 The bristling of the hideous false teeth of tombstones on the hill affected her with a grisly kind of horror.
11 She felt the time not far off when she would be buried there, added to the ghastly host under the tombstones and the monuments, in these filthy Midlands.
12 Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones.
13 "We believe like Mohammedans, and are as mute as tombstones," said Athos.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF