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a short text in memory of a dead person — especially text written on a tombstone

epitaph = text written on his tombstone

epitaph = text written on a tombstone

W.C. Fields epitaph reads:
Here lies W.C. Fields.
On the whole, I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

epitaph = text written on his tombstone

Martin Luther King's epitaph reads:
Free at Last, Free at Last
Thank God Almighty
I'm Free at Last.

epitaph = text written on his tombstone

epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person

Trefusis objected that the epitaph was untrue, and said that he did not see why tombstones should be privileged to publish false statements.
George Bernard Shaw -- An Unsocial Socialist

epitaph = text written on his tombstone

I don't think you'd be interviewing me if we were any less nimble. You'd be writing our epitaph.
Bill Gates

epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person

It has been used as a prison for political offenders for two or three hundred years, and its dungeon walls are scarred with the rudely carved names of many and many a captive who fretted his life away here and left no record of himself but these sad epitaphs wrought with his own hands.
Mark Twain -- The Innocents Abroad

epitaphs = short texts in memory of dead people

You done wrote his epitaph too—like the rest of the world?
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun

epitaph = short text to be inscribed on a tomb in memory of the person buried there

THE EPITAPH
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Thomas Gray -- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person — usually written on their tombstone

How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays ... reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or...
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

epitaphs = short text inscribed on a tombstone in memory of a dead person

epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person — typically written on their tombstone

Unlike Jefferson, Adams had not composed his own epitaph.
David McCullough -- John Adams
On the margin, in the secretary's neat hand, was the laconic epitaph "susp.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph!
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
Suddenly the words sounded like an epitaph.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
These were his words over my grave, my epitaph, and I was glad that I got to hear them.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
I used to know St. Louis, even collected epitaphs.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
This master was one day walking through the Cathedral of Lima and stopped to read the epitaph of a lady.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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