That brick-bat, which he himself had reared, became his own tombstone.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
I cannot refrain from tears when I reflect, This is the man who at Oxford was more than a father to me; this is he whom I have heard expound, or dispute publicly, or preach at St. Mary's, with such applause; and-oh, that I should ever add-whom I have lately heard preach at Epworth, on his father's tombstone!
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He came out to the lady, the lady destined so soon to be a tombstone, often with passion, sometimes with illusions, and always with immense goodwill to believe that here was the real thing at last, but she never came in.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim