It was on public thoroughfares, under the eye of authority, that this infamy was enacted.

The red Indians would have known better; the selectmen of an African kraal-village would have had more respect for their ancestors.

I should like to see the gravestones which have been disturbed all removed, and the ground levelled, leaving the flat tombstones; epitaphs were never famous for truth, but the old reproach of "Here LIES" never had such a wholesale illustration as in these outraged burial-places, where the stone does lie above, and the bones do not lie beneath.] Stop before we turn away, and breathe a woman's sigh over poor Benjamin's dust.

Love killed him, I think.

Twenty years old, and out there fighting another young fellow on the Common, in the cool of that old July evening;--yes, there must have been love at the bottom of it.
The schoolmistress dropped a rosebud she had in her hand, through the rails, upon the grave of Benjamin Woodbridge.