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Sentences ending with monument

In a few weeks or months or years I shall be out of it, I hope under a monument. [5]
How unlike her was that monument! [9]
I bade farewell to the Common with its Cogswell fountain, and the Garden with its last awe-inspiring monument. [6]
They keep green the memory of the men who fell at the Eureka Stockade, and Peter Lalor has his monument. [5]
This is what the Matterhorn is--a monument. [5]
He doesn't suspect that it is his monument. [5]
Only the chimney remains as its monument. [6]
In another of our excursions we visited a venerable church, where our attention was called to a particular monument. [6]
I find something of the same interest in thinking about one of the boarders at our table that I find in my waking dreams concerning the Man of the Monument. [6]
But I would not hesitate to place the effigy of a wolf or a hyena upon the monument. [6]

Short sentences using monument

Where is this monument? [6]
I'll buy the Monument. [5]
The mountain is his monument. [4]
Soldiers' Monument, at Concord, 303. [6]

Sentences containing monument two or more times

It would be the only monument on the planet to Adam, and in the matter of interest and impressiveness could never have a rival until somebody should set up a monument to the Milky Way. [5]
He may build a monument to himself in some institution, but we do not know enough of the world to which he has gone to know whether a tiny monument on this earth is any satisfaction to a person who is free of the universe. [4]

More example sentences with the word monument in them

A monument like your Pulpit Rock? [4]
I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
Still another set would take it to build a monument to the memory of those heroes. [6]
That Tennessee village would set up a monument to Billings, then, and his autograph would outsell Satan's. [5]
Sometimes a man would gather up all the iron fragments and unbursted shells in his neighborhood, and pile them into a kind of monument in his front yard--a ton of it, sometimes. [5]
Darius left a worthy monument of his greatness in the glorious palace which he built on Mount Rachmed, the ruins of which are the wonder and admiration of travellers to this day. [10]
The monument, overgrown with blossoming vines, before which she paused, was a singular structure, that had been built of brick between her own and her uncle's garden. [10]
The sculptor Soteles, who had followed his footsteps since the apprenticeship in Rhodes, was intrusted with the erection of the monument to Myrtilus in Tennis, and another highly gifted young sculptor, who pursued his former course, with the execution of the one to his mother. [10]
Place the monument where you choose. [10]
The Egyptians knew what a monument should be, simple, noble, durable. [6]
But you always were, so they say in Hamley, a monument of seriousness. [11]
In those days we were not content to embalm the thing and bury it decently, we wanted to build a monument over it. [5]
Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue. [6]
We do not want to see our national monument placarded as "the greatest show on earth,"--perhaps it is well that it is taken down from that bad eminence. [6]
He would raise up in Louisiana as a monument to himself a daughter of France to curb their ambition. [9]
Slowly she walked to the window and looked out across the green grounds where the wind was shaking the wet trees, past the unfinished monument to the Father of her country, and across the broad Potomac to Alexandria in the hazy distance. [9]
It has come to such a pass that I never speak to the Man of the Monument without wanting to take my hat off and feeling as if I were looking down a vista of twenty or thirty centuries. [6]
He was struggling to rear a durable monument of fame; and he well knew that truth and thoroughly sound reasoning were the only sure foundations. [7]
The only monument to his memory existing is a shabby little marble shaft erected on the southerly summit of Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. [4]
It is common to engrave upon the monument the business as well as the title of the departed. [4]
They call her to breakfast with a salvo of artillery; and usually when it thunders she looks up expectantly and says "come in....." The monument to the author of "Gloverson and His Silent partners" is finished. [5]
The Monument is to be finished, some day, and at that time our Washington will have risen still higher in the nation's veneration, and will be known as the Great-Great-Grandfather of his Country. [5]
When he died, they set up a monument over him; and little by little he has come into respect again; but it is respect for the pirate, not the alderman. [5]
I have seen the woman that danced the capstone on to Bunker Hill Monument, as Orpheus moved the rocks by music, the Elssler woman,--Fanny Elssler. [6]
By daylight, when the tide was out, the pretty silver bay of the night before was a mud flat, and the tourists, looking over it from Monument Hill, lost some of their respect for the Pilgrim sagacity in selecting a landing-place. [4]
But all round the solemn monument gardens bloomed in the sunshine, and on the further side of the wall covered with creepers, was the ship-yard, the scene of numberless delightful games. [10]
This lingam is the only large monument in Calcutta, I believe. [5]
The bankers discussed the monument with me. [5]
As long as the monument stands and there is a city near it, there will always be a man to take the names of visitors and extract some small tribute from their pockets, I suppose. [6]
Let Jumbo and the Monument alone for the present --they'll keep. [5]
In front of the little church was a monument to the memory of the bold guide Jacques Balmat, the first man who ever stood upon the summit of Mont Blanc. [5]
At length, however, the jealousies of the laity and the clergy, a squabble like that of "town and gown," but with graver underlying causes, broke up the harmony and practically ended the existence of the place except as a monument of the past. [6]
Farther on, up the gradual slope, rose a broken wall, a huge monument, looming dark purple and stretching its solitary, mystic way, a wavering line that faded in the north. [13]
It is not the English language nor its body of enduring literature--the noblest monument of our common civilization--that the writer objected to as a standard of our performances. [4]
The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment. [5]
His wife bought the carpet, and then she erected a monument to his memory. [5]
A monument, I tell you, without a rival. [10]
The Paladin was suddenly become his ancient self again, and was swaggering up and down, a very monument of self-complacency. [5]
There was a stove in the corner--one of those tall, square, stately white porcelain things that looks like a monument and keeps you thinking of death when you ought to be enjoying your travels. [5]
It is a square stuccoed structure, stained light green, and covered by a dome,--a tasteless monument, embellished with stucco medallions, inside, of the poet, of Virgil, of Brunetto Latini, the poet's master, and of his patron, Guido da Polenta. [4]
But yet they sinned; and this monument, the gift and work of one young like them, ardent and desiring like them, is for ever in our eyes the crucifixion of our wrong ambitions and our selfish aims. [11]
I had a similar twinge of reminiscence at meeting with the name of Gorges, which is perpetuated by a stately monument at the end of the north aisle of the cathedral. [6]
I hope I shall not be entirely forgotten, and I shall subscribe to the monument myself. [5]
Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall, the lowly trench of earth, the stately tomb on which no epitaph remained--all--marble, stone, iron, wood, and dust--one common monument of ruin. [12]
Over their heads rose the fine new Cathedral, built by the munificence of Don Andreas Almonaster, and beside that the many-windowed, heavy-arched Cabildo, nearly finished, which will stand for all time a monument to Spanish builders. [9]
If, however, Caesar presents me as his father, with estates and treasures, my first thought shall be to raise a monument to your mother. [10]
Hadrian, as he passed the old ruined monument on his way from Mount Kasius to Egypt, had determined to replace it by a new one, and had entrusted the work to Pontius whose labors at Lochias were now nearly ended. [10]
To the north, over the smooth pink water speckled with white sails, rose Captain Hill, in Duxbury, bearing the monument to Miles Standish. [4]
It was the original intention to erect a monument, but the enterprise of the projectors of this royal entombment failed at that point. [4]
By it not only is the literature of a period for the first time understood, but it is given its just place as an exponent of human life and a monument of human action. [4]
It was not only at the festivals of the dead that he went to the Greek cemetery, where he had had a magnificent monument erected for his dead mother. [10]
By winding-roads--which were often cut to so great a depth between perpendicular walls that they were mere roofless tunnels--we drove out a mile or two and visited the monument which stands upon the scene of the surrender of Vicksburg to General Grant by General Pemberton. [5]
It reminds me of what Robert Burns' mother said when they erected a stately monument to his memory: "Ah, Robbie, ye asked them for bread and they hae gi'en ye a stane. [5]
He looked out of the window through the foliage of the park, and his eye was caught by the monument there in front of the State House, and he thought of the inscription on the base of it, "The People's Government. [9]
The beautiful aspirations of the Reichstag in Paulskirche were baffled, the constitution of the empire had become a noble historical monument which only a chosen few still remembered. [10]
With the exception of the monument in Coventry no memorial of the young hero existed. [4]
The battered remnant of the marble monument has been removed to the National Cemetery. [5]
And in memory of the greatest man Australasia ever developed or ever will develop, there is a stately monument to George Augustus Robinson, the Conciliator in--no, it is to another man, I forget his name. [5]
Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to fly upwards. [2]
Throughout the whole of my journey I had found reason to exclaim against it for depriving me of some valuable curiosity or celebrated monument, but this was the severest disappointment it had yet occasioned. [4]
These much-envied favours of Fortune had little to do with the indestructible monument which she erected in her heart to her son and her lover. [10]
Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New York, that we get up a monument to Adam, and that Mr. Beecher favored the project. [5]
On the 19th of April, 1836, a meeting was held to celebrate the completion of the monument raised in commemoration of the Concord Fight. [6]
The insane oddity of a monument set up in a village to preserve a name that would outlast the hills and the rocks without any such help, would advertise Elmira to the ends of the earth --and draw custom. [5]
But the gigantic obelisks like that on Bunker Hill, and especially the Washington monument at the national capital, are open to critical animadversion. [6]
Twenty centuries from now New York will still be New York, still a vast city, and the most notable object in it will still be the tomb and monument of General Grant. [5]
But there is no other monument to Captain Cook. [5]
I've got a nice lot in the cemetery, and I'm goin' to have a monument, with two lambs on it--like the one you always liked so much. [8]
Fellow-scholars, this stately Mound is not a sepulcher, it is a monument! [5]
You remember the monument in Devizes market to the woman struck dead with a lie in her mouth. [6]
It is a monument erected by white men to Maoris who fell fighting with the whites and against their own people, in the Maori war. [5]
Does the Bunker-Hill Monument bend in the blast like a blade of grass? [6]
He ordered his monument before he died, and kept it near him until he did die. [5]
Think of a monument a mile high, standing on a pedestal two miles high! [5]
Still the long minute-hand, like the dart in the grasp of Death, as we see it in Roubiliac's monument to Mrs. Nightingale, among the tombs of Westminster Abbey, stretched itself out, ready to transfix each hour as it passed, and make it my last. [6]
It seemed to me that if Captain Cook needed a monument, here was one ready made--therefore, why not put up his sign here, and sell out the venerable cocoanut stump? [5]
Its geometric grounds matched those of the park, itself a monument to bad taste in landscape. [9]
They looked up many institutions and monument, they even had time to go to the Navy Yard, and they saved the contemplation of the White House till the last. [9]
I know a man who has lived in Boston ten years and who hasn't ever seen the Bunker Hill monument. [9]
But a dead man always takes a deal of pride in his monument. [5]
If time shall make it good; if time shall prove that the Science can heal the persecuted spirit of man and banish its troubles and keep it serene and sunny and content--why, then Mrs. Eddy will have a monument that will reach above the clouds. [5]
Would not one like to attend twenty consecutive soirees, at each one of which the lion of the party should be the Man of the Monument, at the beginning of each century, all the way, we will say, from Anno Domini 2000 to Ann. [6]
The series of letters which follows was prepared by Mark Twain and General Fred Grant, mainly with a view of advertising the lecture that Clemens had agreed to deliver for the benefit of the Robert Fulton Monument Association. [5]
An army of legislators is not very likely to throw away its political privileges, and the idea of a despotism resting on an open ballot-box, is like that of Bunker Hill Monument built on the waves of Boston Harbor. [6]
It is merely laughable that I should be left, the monument of a sacred loyalty greater than the world has ever known. [11]
A monument with its head in the clouds? [5]
I tell you it speaks volumes, for there is nothing a corpse takes so much pride in as his monument. [5]
If you carve it at Thermopylae, or where Winkelried died, or upon Bunker Hill monument, and read it again "who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism" you will perceive what the word means, and how mischosen it is. [5]
The Albert memorial is the finest monument in the world, and celebrates the existence of as commonplace a person as good luck ever lifted out of obscurity. [5]
This foolhardy exploit is recorded on another stone monument. [5]
If he goes into a monument built for him, that is the end of him. [4]
The fragrance of innumerable libations and the smoke of incense-breathing cigars and pipes shall ascend day and night through the arches of his funereal monument. [6]
The monument raised in memory of our defeat, which was in truth a victory, is almost as much a part of the furniture of the room as its chairs and tables; outside, as they are inside, furniture. [6]
I think, if I were left to myself, I should hang a rogue and then write his apology and subscribe to a neat monument, commemorating, not his virtues, but his misfortunes. [6]
In describing Amasis I have followed the excellent description of Herodotus, which has been confirmed by a picture discovered on an ancient monument. [10]
Everybody believes that I am a monument of all the virtues, but it is nothing of the sort. [5]
As token of his gratitude Cimon caused a monument to be erected in their honor in "the hollow way" near Athens. [10]
They didn't bury him--they planted one end, and let him stand up, same as a monument. [5]
The dervish congratulated himself that although the only monument of his grave would be a brick, he should at the last day arrive at and enter the gate of Paradise before the king had got from under the heavy stones of his costly tomb. [4]
Five hundred years hence there will be no vestige of Bunker Hill Monument left, but America will still know where the battle was fought and where Warren fell. [5]

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