| The epitaphs, written in many different languages, recorded an international community of the dead. |
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| The central room contains the epitaphs of the emperor Humayun and his queen, and is crowned by great double dome. |
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| Amusement can be gained from tombstone epitaphs which, when read differently, can see intentions misconstrued to say the least. |
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| Some proclaim pages to store eulogies and epitaphs, which I think is taking virtual reality a little far. |
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| Babu and I wander into the sanctuary, looking at chest-high tablets inscribed with epitaphs for both Sherpa and foreign climbers. |
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| The images in the frieze seem to elaborate in visual terms what the epitaphs below convey in words. |
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| He gazed goggle-eyed at the monuments to the great and good interred there, and read their epitaphs with awe. |
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| It was often to be found in private chapels or on epitaphs and gravestones. |
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| It includes collections of the history of the church such as liturgical vessels, clothes and epitaphs. |
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| English translations of the epitaphs on ancient tombstones of the Dutch and Portuguese in St. Francis Church at Fort Kochi will soon be displayed. |
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| The graveyard at Chirbury in the Marches the poet George Herbert was vicar there in the early 1600s abounds in 19th-century rhyming epitaphs. |
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| Not least because the more remote the burial place, the more fulsome were their epitaphs. |
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| Piece in the form of a square marble plaque with moulded edges framing and separating twin nine-line epitaphs in kufic script in relief. |
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| There are approximately 70 tombstones and epitaphs in the church and the cloisters. |
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| You will also read the touching epitaphs chosen by parents, brothers and sisters or children. |
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| The genealogist also investigates again and again for epitaphs. |
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| The tombs that fill churches and cloisters also demonstrate this phenomenon: sarcophagi, recumbent statues, tombstones or even simple epitaphs request that the passer-by say a prayer for their salvation. |
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| A large number of other epitaphs are in good condition and can be read. |
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| Sculptural art really is abundant here: altars and altar rails, choir stalls and organ, epitaphs and doors, and especially the confessionals with no less than 40 life-sized figures and richly sculptured decorations. |
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| These events and their victims are publicly commemorated by the people of Tulle and Oradour in various ways, including annual ceremonies, memorial sites, and epitaphs. |
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| Throughout the cemeteries, epitaphs and sculptures bloom in the wake of departed children, revealing a rhetoric deep in grief and outraged by the irreversible. |
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| As an honorary literature professor, he tracks down passages dealing with death, and reads into epitaphs beautiful love stories of the living and dead. |
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| I will never be able to resist entering the small chapel and rediscovering the epitaphs of the nuns whose names are inscribed on my forks and spoons. |
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| In spite of the stillness of the other sides of the panels, the monumental and enormous inscriptions, similar to tomb epitaphs, prompt us to contemplate eternity and transitional glory. |
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| Far more common, though, are deliberately witty epitaphs, a type abounding in Britain and the United States in the form of acrostics, palindromes, riddles, and puns on names and professions. |
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| His own corpus is not devoid of humour, notably his sixth prolusion and his epitaphs on the death of Thomas Hobson. |
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| The Liujiagang and Changle inscriptions are considered the epitaphs of the treasure voyages. |
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| Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, a guidebook to the many tomb monuments and epitaphs of Westminster Abbey. |
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| By contrast, the Statilian epitaphs are typically very simple plaques, with shorter, often poorly executed texts. |
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| Some headstones remain, but epitaphs are wearing away. |
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| South Picene is represented by 23 short inscriptions, in which only a few poetic epitaphs display demonstratives in use. |
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