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?1520 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Diocese Lincoln, 1517–1531 (1940) I. 134 Idem rector idem rector accepit duos lapides anglice Tumbe stonys.

1625 J. Stradling Divine Poemes vii. 270 Vpon the Tombe dore-stone he [sc. an angel] sweetly sits.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 408 Tomb-Burglary in this kind, being so uncouth a Case, as Law never made Provision against it.

1771 A. Meagher Popish Mass Celebrated 51 The Romanists have..their Angel-worship,..Relic-worship, Tomb-worship, Well-worship, &c. &c.

1785 T. Cumber Diary in Home Counties Mag. (1902) 4 226 The following inscription on a tomb board.

1830 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 15 Sept. (advt.) The villain or villains, who broke the Marble Tomb Slab, at my shop on Sunday night last.

1885 North Manchester (Wabash County, Indiana) Jrnl. 10 Sept. 1/5 Mrs. Grant walked to the tomb entrance with her face heavily veiled.

1906 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 896 Such an almost pathetic beauty is the dominant note of the later tomb-reliefs of Athenian sculpture.

1958 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 62 179/2 A fairly large narrow stone slab, which might perhaps have been intended for use as a tomb marker.

2000 R. King Brunelleschi's Dome (2001) xviii. 156 There is no grand monument.., only a simple marble tomb slab.