Example Sentences

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"Melior est mors quam vita" to the aged woman who crawls gravewards with her bone rosary while Death makes music in the van.

From The Dance of Death by Dobson, Austin

But the great procession gravewards goes on, the "thin black lines" creeping along all day long, and there is no falling off in the consumption of sherry and biscuits.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

One sees them staggering gravewards under a load of self-imposed burdens.

From Alone by Douglas, Norman