footstone

Example Sentences

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Mason plans to visit Minnesota next July and claim her uncle’s footstone - she is just not sure what she’ll do with it, she said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 6, 2020

The only damage, other than the break, was a missing chuck of stone at the top right corner of the footstone.

From Washington Times • Jul. 6, 2020

A small, white footstone sat unsteadily in the earth, like a loose tooth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2020

And the footstone at the grave of Chief Gunner’s Mate Henry Lynde is inscribed “USS Santee.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2018

And then, with a good tall slab at the head, and a footstone six foot away from it, it'll look just as if there was a man underneath.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various