The custom of using thechurchyard for purposes of business and pleasure was very common and very persistent.
From a canon of the Synod of Westminster, 1142, we learn that ploughs and other agricultural implements placed in the churchyard had certain immunities, probably freedom from seizure for debt.
Some of the Saxon churchyard crosses which still remain, as at Whalley, Bakewell, Eyam, etc.
The churchyard was frequently called the "sanctuary.
There is still an ancient house in the churchyard which may possibly be the lodging here mentioned.
Every church and every churchyard shared in the privilege, and it was no very unusual incident to find it made use of.
Pepys makes mention of a churchyardnear Southampton where the graves were accustomed to be all sown with sage.
He dogged my feet to the city street, He followed me to the sea, But not to the neighbouring churchyard Did he dream of following me.
Upon the morrow he went And to that town and churchyard never bent His ageing footsteps till, some twelvemonths onward, An accident Once more detained him there; And, stirred by hauntings, he must needs repair To where the tomb was.
In my feverish condition I hear the rattling of dead men's bones; I see the suicide swinging by the churchyard wall, and how he stares at me with his fixed eyes!
The track is a short one, but the young people are sliding upon their sleds and boards over the frozen snow, from the Winkel-warden's house down to the churchyard wall.
Mr. Gosse neglects the elegies of William Shenstone, which were also in the quatrain, and some of which had apparently been published before the Churchyard Elegy.
It is believed that the printing of Hammond's verses incited Gray to begin his Churchyard Elegy, and to make the four-line stanza the basis of most of his harmonies.
Another churchyard perhaps received you, and maybe you call your mother as you shiver naked ’neath the black hissing rainstorms.
God rest the bones of she, for I count her'll have been lying in the churchyard a good few years by now.
She be already put safe to bed and 'tis in the churchyard where her do take her rest," says she.
And, standing in the churchyard you may read the face to each, as the corpses do go by.
In Sweden the village of Hästveda is said to take its name from häst-hvith, a white horse which haunts the churchyard and village.
In the village churchyardwhere as a boy I often played, is a tomb, built up to the height of about five feet, with a slate slab let into the south face, on which is an inscription.
The corpse-candle which comes from a churchyard and goes to the house where one is to die, and hovers on the doorstep, is one form of this idea.
The spectre of this animal is said to wander about the churchyard at night, and is called the Kirk-Grim.
On the left of the churchyard entrance is the Vicarage.
We stand beneath the haunted yew, And watch each quiet tomb, And in the ancient churchyard feel Solemnity, not gloom!
She was buried beside her father and mother in the churchyard of East Wellow, near her old home in Hampshire.
They belonged to the old Badsey Manor property and of course occupied important positions lying in each case just between the churchyard and the adjoining roads.
The churchyard presented a magnificent crop of exuberant wheat: Archdeacon.
He was very scornful of ghosts, and told me that he had been about the churchyard very often at night for fifty years without seeing anything like an apparition.
The purchase of the land adjoining the churchyardhad a remarkable sequel; it was conveyed to the Vicar and churchwardens for the time being, these original churchwardens having been long out of the office before my appointment.
The side streets were practically deserted, Chepe and St. Paul's Churchyard being the fashionable promenades.
Men bought and sold and bargained as in the churchyard outside or Chepe beyond.
There was no thought of taking her poor body across to the other island for burial in the sweet quiet churchyard of Saint Pierre du Bois.
As Perrin entered the churchyard he saw that a woman was bending over the grave: he knew at once who it was, and his heart beat quicker.
This special evening he decided to make a pilgrimage to the churchyard of St. Pierre du Bois where his mother was buried.
Ross died in 1784, about eighty-six years old, and is buried in a churchyardat the east end of the loch.
Then, a child who, somehow, had heard of him In the land we love so well, Kept lifting the grass till the dew was dim In the churchyard of Clonmel.
In the adjacent churchyard formerly stood a house in which Milton for a time resided.
Awful spiritual presences haunted me always in the dark, when I passed a churchyard or an empty and solitary house.
It was five years after Paganini's death that this occurred, and permission was obtained to have the body removed to holy ground in the village churchyard near the Villa Gajona.
Over her tomb in the Laeken churchyard the magnificent mausoleum surmounted with her statue was erected by De Bériot.
The sixty-eighth canon says, that "no minister shall refuse or delay to bury any corpse that is brought to the church or churchyard .
I'm not likely to outlive you; but, if I should, and still be vicar of Shackleton, you shall be buried somewhere as near the middle of the churchyard as we can find space.
His way home lay across the moor of Catstean, and the point at which he best knew the passage was from the churchyard of Shackleton.
Others whom affection cherished, lay in holy ground, in the old churchyard of Abington, with headstone to mark the spot over which the survivor might kneel and say a kind prayer for the peace of the departed soul.
It was his brother-in-law who had crossed the moor and approached the churchyard of Shackleton, exactly in the line which the image of his father had seemed to take in his strange vision.
Fortunately for Jack Everton, the sexton and clerk of Shackleton church were, unseen by him, crossing the churchyard toward the grave of Nelly Chuff, just as Tom the poacher stumbled and fell.
He vaulted the low wall that forms its boundary, and strode across the graves, and over many a flat, half-buried tombstone, toward the side of the churchyard next Catstean Moor.
Or were they leaping forward to the joy of the cool bed under the churchyard daisies at Ellen's side?
Will you bury me by Ellen's side, misther, in the green churchyard under the soft turf that the wind combs smooth like in my own dear counthry?
I wept as it were internally, and only when we had come out of the churchyard could I think and speak calmly again.
They searched through the churchyard and they found no one.
In thechurchyard Sir William Waller, the Parliamentary General, is buried.
Nor must we forget that Ben Jonson lived and died in a house over the gate or passage from the churchyard to the old palace.
In the churchyard he sat down to rest under an old yew tree, and here the parson found him after vespers, and took him in to lodge in his own house.
Hast seen the Miracle Play in Paul's Churchyard at Whitsuntide?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "churchyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
