footstone

Example Sentences

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They’d stand at shy attention at his footstone, their sneakered feet pressed tightly together, their chubby hands offering up tired-looking daisies.

From New York Times

Instead, the stone weighing more than 250 pounds fell on him, crushing him between it and a footstone in the ground and killing him, he said.

From Washington Times

On the footstone of his grave, there is only a four-word phrase.

From New York Times

One was to complement the existing footstone memorials to the state’s 153 victims — two long strips installed on Sherwood Island in September 2003 — by creating a key to the location of individual names as well as plaques with more biographical material about each victim.

From New York Times

They searched the surrounding country and found, two miles away, a durable quality of sandstone, which they fashioned with their rude tools for his monument, his uncle Jesse Winslow carving with great care his name, home, and age, and on a footstone the figures 1849.

From Project Gutenberg