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Example sentences for "cemetery"

Lexicographically close words:
cemented; cementer; cementing; cements; cemeteries; cenacle; cenas; cendre; cendres; cene
  1. The opportunity was with the Confederates from the assembling on Cemetery Hill.

  2. At the cemetery his line turned to the northeast and east and southeast in an elliptical curve, with his right on Culp's Hill.

  3. At least eighteen guns are still firing from the cemetery itself.

  4. The prominent point of the south ridge is Cemetery Hill, and east of this is Culp's Hill, from which the ridge turns sharply south half a mile, and drops off into low grounds.

  5. From Cemetery Hill the ground is elevated, the ridge sloping south to the cropping out of Little Round Top, Devil's Den, and the bolder Round Top, the latter about three miles south of the town.

  6. To meet the call he ordered his divisions under Generals Barlow and Schurz to Doubleday's right, to occupy a prominent point at the north end of Seminary Ridge, reserving his division under Steinwehr and part of his artillery on Cemetery Hill.

  7. Cemetery Hill is nearly parallel to Seminary Ridge, and is more elevated.

  8. I don't know whether it is true, but I heard that the Jews took an empty coffin to the cemetery on the Sunday following, and then filled in an empty grave.

  9. Lea's playground was the Jewish cemetery at Barnow.

  10. My curiosity was excited by the last of those blank headstones set up in the cemetery at Barnow.

  11. On the fort the assault is delivered in successive waves, not in a cordon but in small columns, now directly in front of the parapets, now slantwise on our left, between the cemetery and the fort, where he finds a battalion of the 408th.

  12. The Territorials billeted in the villages of Vaux and Damloup, when they were off duty, played games of chance in the street or used the cemetery as a place for sleeping.

  13. For all that, this series of assaults has brought the enemy up to the approaches to the village and cemetery of Vaux.

  14. A strong superstition and very rigid law forbid the burial of the dead within the city walls, and hitherto the few Europeans who had died had been buried in the cemetery near Chemulpo.

  15. PAGE 98] The government had never set aside any land for a foreign cemetery near Seoul, although in accordance with the treaty they should have done so long before.

  16. On the other hand, in hypnosis she could recount the proceedings in the cemetery and during the nightly disturbances.

  17. She arrived at the cemetery in a somnambulic state, which on this occasion was specially intense in consequence of her having taken alcohol.

  18. She gives her history and tells recent events quite clearly, but has no recollection of what took place in the cemetery at C.

  19. Next morning at seven o'clock she was still delirious, but recalled accurately the events in the cemetery at C.

  20. The following night at four o'clock she awoke and heard the dead children in the neighbouring cemetery cry out that they had been buried alive.

  21. The walk in the cemetery induces the vision of the skeletons; the meeting with the three boys arouses the hallucination of children buried alive whose voices the patient hears at night-time.

  22. Thus a receptacle was, at once, provided for the immense mass of human remains, to be removed from the Cemetery des Innocens.

  23. This cemetery is called, by the Mandans, the village of the dead.

  24. This is true of a cemetery in the suburbs--a fortiori, of a cemetery in the city.

  25. Those who were opposed to the evacuation of the Cemetery des Innocens, in the sixteenth century, attempted to set up in its favor the improbable pretension, that it consumed bodies in nine days.

  26. I shall rejoice, if the governors of this cemetery should decree, that no tomb should ever be erected therein--but that the dead should be laid in their graves.

  27. Nothing roused his indignation so much, as the suggestion, that a cemetery was full--c'est impossible!

  28. For hundreds of years, Paris had but one place of interment, the Cemetery des Innocens.

  29. In 1805, the Archbishop of Paris, under a resolve of the Council of State, issued a decree, that the great cemetery should be suppressed and evacuated.

  30. In 1186 this cemetery was surrounded with a high wall, by Philip Augustus, the forty second king of France.

  31. Beyond the town walls, and at some distance to the north of the Djeheir, stands the famous mosque El Mebrak; and near it is the cemetery of the town.

  32. The cemetery of the Jews of Tiberias is on the declivity of the mountain, about half an hour from the town; where the tombs of their most renowed persons are visited much in the same manner as are the sepulchres of Mussulman saints.

  33. Of this stone he had a photograph made, of which he took copies with him; and he obtained also from the minister who had buried the body and from the custodian who had charge of the cemetery certificates of the interment.

  34. However, in two days he died;--and we buried him in the big cemetery just out of the town.

  35. What we ask of France is that she looks the other way" "That two hundred shall be five hundred, but it must be a cemetery to which they take him!

  36. That two hundred shall be five hundred, Jean Coulois, but it must be a cemetery to which they take him, and not a hospital!

  37. Illustration: "That two hundred shall be five hundred, but it must be a cemetery to which they take him!

  38. It was Jack Sooker, the fellow mentioned by the cemetery keeper's daughter.

  39. Now it chanced that the widow who had given the new vault to the cemetery association had a horror of allowing supposed dead folks to be buried alive.

  40. He ran into the cemetery and hid in the new vault and I locked the door on him.

  41. Near the rear of the cemetery was a new receiving vault, which had just been donated to the cemetery association by the widow of a rich stockholder who had died the year before.

  42. During the day Sam got his hair cut and also returned the clothing loaned to him by the cemetery keeper's daughter.

  43. The cemetery gained, Lew Flapp ran along one of the paths leading to the rear.

  44. I am going after the cemetery keeper and the constable," answered Sam, and walked off without another word.

  45. In a moment more he was out of the vault and running to the rear of the cemetery as fast as his legs would carry him.

  46. The end of the cemetery bordered on the Swift River, a stream which has already figured in these stories of the Rover boys.

  47. In an oration over the graves of the Confederate dead in Arlington Cemetery a few weeks ago, Hilary A.

  48. Only once had he caught the full gleam of her indignant eyes, but that long look had awakened torture's that would never entirely slumber again, until the solemn hush of the shroud and the cemetery was his portion.

  49. Even the entrance faces away from the fire and there is nothing but grass in the cemetery to burn, anyhow.

  50. Near Carmansville was the home of Audubon, the ornithologist, and the residences above the cemetery are grouped together as Audubon Park.

  51. He is buried in the old rural cemetery about two miles and a half from the village, and a monument has been erected to his memory.

  52. The cemetery of Roman London was in Spital-fields.

  53. Some departures from ordinary usage may, no doubt, be accounted for by the circumstance that in Italy, as in England, the Muse of the cemetery was an "unlettered Muse.

  54. The first principle of a cemetery was here violated, necessarily, no doubt, but by a sad necessity.

  55. Before visiting Mount Auburn I had seen the Catholic cemetery at New-Orleans, and the contrast was remarkable enough.

  56. It was icy underground in the cemetery at Montparnasse among all those white tombstones.

  57. At last he and Albert Price followed the hearse to the cemetery at Montparnasse.

  58. Far to the west, higher shafts of Hollywood Cemetery gleam among the trees; and the rapids, dancing down in the sunlight, break away into a broader sheet of foam around its point.

  59. With the morning of the third day came the conviction that the vital struggle must be made for Cemetery Heights.

  60. From the cemetery the view extends to the left in the direction of Italy as far as the Bordighera headland, where the white houses stretch out into the sea; and to the right as far as Cape Martin, which dips its leafy coast in the water.

  61. He suffers and dies, for this charming and balmy country is the hospital of society and the flowery cemetery of aristocratic Europe.

  62. Tis a children's cemetery, a cemetery similar to the young girls' balls, where no married couples are admitted.

  63. Even as in warlike cities, the fortresses can be seen standing out on the surrounding heights, so in this region of moribunds, the cemetery is visible on the summit of a hill.

  64. And the two took off their hats, and walked bare-headed after the corpse of a stranger to the cemetery of Montmartre.

  65. He was buried AT NIGHT--as if he had been a dog--in the Johannis Cemetery of Meissen.

  66. The ashes were entombed in the Protestant cemetery at Rome, with the epitaph, Cor cordium.

  67. Of the public oratory of the war the foremost example is the ever-memorable address of Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cemetery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.