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Definition of Footstones
1. footstone [n] - See also: footstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footstones
Literary usage of Footstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stone; an Illustrated MagazineBuilding stones (1892)
"... thick 20 footstones, sawed heads, each 22 footstones, sawed heads, sand rnb,
box, each 28 Hearths. I Inch, sawed edges, per sup.ft SO Markers 10 to 14 ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1920)
"... most of the trees were cut lown, the ground was levelled, lot fences and
footstones were taken ,way, paths and driveways were gravelled, ..."
3. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Baron Henry Bickersteth Langdale, Chaloner William Chute, John Romilly Romilly, Charles Beavan (1857)
"... footstones, or fences now or lately upon or around the private or family graves
or vaults respectively, and from destroying, obliterating or defacing ..."
4. Regulations for the Government of National Cemeteries by United States Army. Quartermaster's Dept (1911)
"The erection of private monuments, headstones, or footstones will not be permitted
until both the proposed design and the inscription have been approved by ..."
5. Report of Cases in Chancery: Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Charles Beavan, Henry Bickersteth Langdale, John Romilly Romilly, Chaloner William Chute (1857)
"... monuments, headstones, footstones, or fences now or lately upon or around the
private or family graves or vaults respectively, and from destroying, ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"12°, (Realistic ser.) pap., 25 с Town Topics. Bertrand, G: E. footstones of a
nation: [poems.] 'оз(Мур) D. pap., 50 с. ..."
7. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt (1920)
"... 'The Spirit of '61 ' (1915), and other patriotic works, such as ' The Star of
Empire ' (1900), ' footstones of a Nation ' (1906), and ' Usona ' (1918). ..."
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