| 1. | Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Or I shall live your epitaph to make. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | At his head it stood, silent, erect, and still--a living grave-stone, with its epitaph in blood. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph o. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | And as they came out the other side, and I limped off to piece myself together again, there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 7. | Translation of the epitaph This tomb was built for Geoffrey Chaucer, who in his time was the greatest poet of the English. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8. | placed on a pillar near his grave, bearing the lines, taken from an epitaph or eulogy made by Stephanus Surigonus of Milan, at the request of Caxto. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | Here, the Cumans say, he composed an epitaph on Gordius, king of Phrygia, which has however, and with greater probability, been attributed to Cleobulus of Lindus. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 10. | Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable deep memories yield no epitaphs this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |