Word: epitaphed
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Chimes & Symbols. Like many another poet, Frost wrote his own epitaph...
Characteristically, his epitaph sounded simple and straightforward. Characteristically, too, it was not as simple as it seemed, but a kind of shorthand for the complexity that lay beneath...
...were an epitaph to be my story...
...characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie's end, but Jimson has always had a more realistic idea of his own worth, and he responds with...
...were no longer at issue, and the world had come to judge her not by her causes but by her indefatigable heart and her humanity. The United Nations, in a rare unity, hushed its debates for a minute in her honor, and her devoted friend Adlai Stevenson spoke her epitaph: "Her glow had warmed the world." The three Presidents who had succeeded her husband in office were at the graveside as she was buried beside Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the rose garden at Hyde Park...