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epitaph
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  • Martin Luther King's epitaph reads: Free at Last, Free at Last Thank God Almighty I'm Free at Last.
  • I want to lead a life that permits a true and honorable epitaph.
    epitaph = short texts in memory of dead people
  • Only few become legend, so he chose as the epitaph for her tombstone: CATHERINE DANIELLE CLARK — "KYA" — THE MARSH GIRL — 1945-2009  (source)
    epitaph = text written on a tombstone
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  • You done wrote his epitaph too—like the rest of the world?  (source)
    epitaph = short text to be inscribed on a tomb in memory of the person buried there
  • How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays ... reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or...  (source)
    epitaphs = short text inscribed on a tombstone in memory of a dead person
  • Chose his own epitaph.  (source)
    epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person -- typically written on their tombstone
  • I used to know St. Louis, even collected epitaphs.†  (source)
    epitaphs = short texts in memory of dead people
  • Anger, I thought, that I would dare to speak his father's epitaph.†  (source)
    epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person
  • My father had picked out the headstone he wanted way back when he was so interested in epitaphs.†  (source)
    epitaphs = short texts in memory of dead people
  • Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?†  (source)
    epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person
  • As time eats from the tombstones of the past the epitaphs of primeval greatness, and covers the pyramids with the moss of forgetfulness, she directs the eye to the new temples of art and progress that make America the monumental beacon-light of the world.†  (source)
    epitaphs = short texts in memory of dead people
  • She brushed away more of the leaves and uncovered an epitaph: AND THE ANGELS SING.†  (source)
    epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person
  • Dead with neat stones above them, saying: 'Here lies a soldier of the Confederacy, dead for the Southland' or 'Dulce et decorum est—' or any of the other popular epitaphs.†  (source)
    epitaphs = short texts in memory of dead people
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