"Cenotaph" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... glory, Found on a tablet these words: "Where he lies, The gray wave breaks and the wild sea-mew flies: If any be that loved him, seek not here, But in the lone hills by the Murmuring Mere." A nameless cenotaph!—perhaps of one Like Gawayne's self deluded and undone By the green stranger; and the legend brought A tide of passion flooding Gawayne's thought; A flood-tide, not of fear,—for Gawayne's breast Shrank ...
— Gawayne And The Green Knight - A Fairy Tale • Charlton Miner Lewis
... the wide, mournful, almost despairing eyes, that gazed with strange intentness over the amber sea, at the golden radiance that heralded the coming sun; and every line and moulding of her delicate features seemed cold and rigid enough for a cenotaph. Even the lips were still and compressed, and a bluish shadow lay about their dimpled corners, and under the heavy jet eyelashes. Her silver comb had become loosened, and was finally dragged down by the coil of hair that slipped slowly until it fell ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere). Associated Words: sepulchral, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... "Have you seen this cenotaph before?" the young lady suddenly asked, to Heideck's surprise. On his answering in the negative, ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann |
