footstone

Example Sentences

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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

“There was no tombstone or footstone and the plot location was never recorded. Both of my grandparents are buried there, but no markers.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2019

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2018

Here's a marble headstone beautifully crocketed, with medallions beneath of typical subjects; here's the footstone after the same pattern, and here's the coping to enclose the grave.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas