He turned aside towards the right-hand wall, his crutches ringing hollowly, and Cadfael, following, found him standing beside a stone table-tomb fitted between the pillars. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1988)
A species of tomb similar in all respects but one to the arcosolium is the so-called sepulchrum a mensâ, or table-tomb; in this a rectangular niche takes the place of the arch. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
All the concession he was willing to make to old age and bad weather was to sleep under the fallen table-tomb. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
He had learned that when the earliest comer clicked the wicket he must go under the table-tomb and console himself with the extra bone that Mr. Traill never failed to remember. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
After a time he sat up on the table-tomb, pensively. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
There's nae stave to it, but it's neist to the fa'en table-tomb o 'Mistress Jean Grant. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
There he kept hidden Mistress Jeanie's milking stool for a seat; and a table-tomb served as well, for the laddie to do his sums upon, as it had for the tearful signing of the Covenant more than two hundred years before. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
After nightfall, when the caretaker had made his rounds, he came out from under the fallen table-tomb of Mistress Jean Grant. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
Then there was the story of Bobby's devotion to Auld Jock's memory to be told -- the days when he faced starvation rather than desert that grave, the days when he lay cramped under the fallen table-tomb, and his repeated, dramatic escapes from the Pentland farm. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
Bobby's memorial fountain, swathed in canvas against the winter, and waiting -- waiting for the spring, when the waters of the earth should be unsealed again; waiting until finis could be written to a story on a bronze table-tomb; waiting for the effigy of a shaggy Skye terrier to be cast and set up; waiting -- ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
At that the little dog slipped under the fallen table-tomb and lay hidden there until any strange visitor had taken himself away. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
He had drawn him sitting upon the table-tomb, and standing in the begging attitude in which he was so irresistible. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
Tammy bundled his books under the table-tomb of Mistress Jean Grant, went over to the rear of the Guildhall at the top of the Row, and threw ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
And when she was seated on the table-tomb he came up to her and let her look at his collar, and he stood under her caress, although she spoke to him in fey English, calling him a darling little dog. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
One morning the wee terrier was found sitting on the table-tomb, on his haunches, looking up toward the Castle, where clouds and birds were blown around the sun-gilded battlements. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
In fair weather he took his frequent naps on the turf above his master, or he sat on the fallen table-tomb in the sun. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
