405 examples of graveyards in sentences

The womanthe first woman, I meangoes crazy down to the extremity of her feet, and dies, and then there are more women,no; these last are disembodied spirits, with nothing but light skirts on,who dance in graveyards, and make young men dance with them till they fall down exhausted, calling in vain for BROWN to take them home in carriages, and pay for their torn gloves.

It stands for financial success, I understand; but I'll bet you never made your money doing such fool things as establishing newspapers in graveyards.

And there in the packed graveyards that dot these slopes lie thousands of them in immortal sleep; and as the Greeks in after days knew no nobler oath than that which pledged a man by those who fell at Marathon, so may the memory of those who fell here burn ever in the heart of England, a stern and consecrating force.

More graveyards, carefully tended; spaces of peace amid the universal movement.

Here, as in our war graveyards in France, no religious dogma or supernatural hope intrudes upon the little wooden crosses.

GRAVEYARDS ON BATTLEFIELDS "Near the large hospital I visited was a graveyard where there were scores of neatly marked fresh graves, each bearing a cross or tablet with the name of the soldier and his regiment, division and corps marked on it.

It has flowers of faded white, foliage of faded green, resembling the "live-for-ever" of old gardens and graveyards, but even less attractive.

To understand this passage one must bear in mind that in Spanish graveyards corpses are generally interred in niches superimposed one above the other in high walls, like the pigeon-holes of a cabinet, and that these niches are sealed with stone tablets bearing the names etc. of the deceased.

Men and women, whose forms will in a few short weeks be unrecognisable, whose whitened bones will be crushed and kicked aside by the future explorer, who may perchance penetrate the labyrinths, and whose dust will finally be mixed up and undistinguishable from that of the bones and skulls taken from ancient cemeteries and graveyards with which this terrible Golgotha is decorated in Mosaic.

There are in Panamaif you don't mind, doctorimprovised graveyards, tangled by the jungle, that give you a feeling of an active, unseen population precisely as this house does.

As to real estate, there are in every town some lands and buildings which, for reasons of public policy, are exempted from paying taxes; as, for example, churches, graveyards, and tombs; many charitable institutions, including universities and colleges; and public buildings which belong to the state or to the United States.

The evidence may still be read in old West Indian graveyards, where the crumbling monuments show the carefully engraved armorial bearings, and the inscriptions record the families and homes in England from which those whom they commemorate had sprung.

But Jacob and Ruth Newell had neither son nor daughter, grandchild, cousin, relation of any nearness or remoteness, to expect; for the white snow covered with a cold mantle scores of mounds in many graveyards where lay their dead.

I cried, gazing around my poor gardenor rather I must have fairly snorted, for he looked down quickly and took in the situation at a glance, gave a whistle and added: 'I see, you'll be planted in; but, marm, that's what's got to happen in a pushing cityit don't stop even for graveyards, but just plants 'em in.'

On the night of August 2, when I travelled from Paris to Nancy, it seemed to me that France sang La Marseillaisethe strains of it rose from every wayside station and that out of its graveyards across those dark hills and fields, with a thin luminous line on the far horizon the ghosts of slain soldiers rose to sing it to those men who were going to fight again for liberty.

Shore graveyards.

Already many village graveyards are overcrowded, and it is becoming difficult to arrange for the future.

Grandmother took me sometimes to walk in these graveyards at night, and there talked to me about God and heaven and the angels.

We had a bachelor uncle who delighted in telling us tales of the supernatural, and he peopled these graveyards with ghosts, in which I believed as implicitly as in the Revelations made to John on the Isle of Patmos, which were my favorite literature.

There's sunthin' goin' on, I know: las' night The British sogers killed in our gret fight (Nigh fifty year they hedn't stirred nor spoke) Made sech a coil you'd thought a dam hed broke: Why, one he up an' beat a revellee With his own crossbones on a holler tree, Till all the graveyards swarmed out like a hive With faces I hain't seen sence Seventy-five.

And, therefore, in radiant contrast with this, stands out in the sunshine and under the blue summer sky, far from graveyards and torture of death agony, the fair ideal Humanity of the Atheist.

Pilgrimages to all sorts of uncanny placesto execution grounds, to graveyards, to houses reputed to be haunted, were favorite pastimes of the young.

" I could see that the sentiment in his speech touched my mother, who was fond of visiting graveyards herself, and she turned to Mr. James Gilverthwaite with a nod of acquiescence.

In England he loved going to see graveyards, and knew where every poet was buried.

The Greeks reserved epitaphs for their heroes, but amongst the Romans grew up the modern custom of marking the tombs of relatives with some simple inscription, many of their sepulchres being placed on the side of the public roads, a circumstance which explains the phrase, Siste, viatorStay, travellerfound in old graveyards.

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