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Grave scene of western battle
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tombstone
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tombstone ( Lonnie Thompson Lincoln ) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, originally the flat stone atop a grave (or the lid of a stone coffin); from tomb + stone (n.). Meaning "gravestone, headstone" is attested from 1711. The city in Arizona, U.S., said to have been named by prospector Ed Schieffelin, who found silver ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A headstone marking the person's grave. 2 (context mathematics English) The symbol "(term ∎ Translingual)" marking the end of a proof. vb. (context surfing English) For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) ...
Usage examples of tombstone.
If he really was starting to sound like Tombstone, he thought, then he really had made something of himself as an aviator after all.
Tombstone kept his descent constant at five hundred feet per minute and relied on the advice of the LSO, a veteran aviator with a much better perspective on the approach than Magruder had himself, to keep him on track.
While Tombstone and Batman had been over northern Thailand, other aircraft from their squadron had been patrolling the skies closer to the Jefferson.
Tombstone, Batman, Nightmare Marinaro and Price Taggart all sat in the synthetic leather chairs of the Ready Room, sipping Cokes and swapping stories.
There was a stunned silence, then Batman heard Tombstone responding for Eagle.
Tombstone saw Batman ahead, a black speck pursued by four smaller specks, weaving and twisting back and forth, working to shake his pursuers.
Others, like Tombstone and Batman, set down at U Feng, dropping onto a runway partly masked by drifting smoke.
Tombstone gave Jane a sketchy but vigorous idea of his opinions on gumption, as distinct from bull-headedness.
This cathedral among the moors, with its massive masonry, its dark oak carving, its fragments of gorgeous glass, its ghostly hatchments and banners, and its aisles paved with the tombstones of the dead, was a new revelation.
There were five men besides Hsiao, a scarred civilian named Phreng and four others who Tombstone thought might be soldiers, though they did not wear uniforms.
All Tombstone knew was that the lives of his shipmates might well be riding on whether Hsiao got the verification he demanded.
As they tied her hands and feet, Hsiao turned to face Tombstone and Bayerly again.
He and Pamela would have hostage value for negotiations if nothing else, and Hsiao did not seem to Tombstone to be the sort of man who would throw away any advantage, however small.
Near Arsincevo Kerch Peninsula, the Crimea Tombstone stood on the low hill, peering through binoculars at the tank farm below.
By the dazzling light of the new-risen sun, Tombstone could see Kerch itself to the northeast, a drab-looking city separated by the sparkling blue waters of the Kerch Strait from the gray strip of land marking the western tip of the Taman Peninsula.