The wheat that we found among the Indian graves could be made ready for the table, as we believed, only by boiling it a full day, and then it was not pleasing to the taste.
I have heard father often say since then, that the hardest of the work during those dreadful days, was to diggraves while the earth was frozen so solidly.
We need not travel to visit the graves of the heroes: they are become a part of the common air; their line is gone out to all generations.
It was a frost, and had snowed last night, which covered thegraves in the churchyard, so as I was the less afeard for going through.
And how was it that their graves were opened as Jesus died, while their bodies did not come out till after His Resurrection?
This interesting group of early graves appears to have been entirely distinct from those alluded to in Mr. T.
In the spring of 1849 the shifting of the sands during the continuance of high easterly winds brought to light a remarkable group of graves on the Links of Pier-o-waal at Westray.
In some of these graves rusty daggers were found, which fell in pieces by handling.
A short distance from this, at the foot of the hill, is the flat piece of ground assigned as the scene of the skirmish, in confirmation of which I discovered some graves there.
One of the bronze pins found in the above graves is figured in the Journal of the Archæological Association.
Their inhumation beneath the soil, as well as the frequent occurrence of numbers together, point them out as the common and undistinguished graves of the builders of the tumuli.
Those were counted happy who could lay tear-dewed flowers upon the graves of their soldier-slain--so many never looked again, even upon the dead face of him who had smiled back at them as the boys marched away to the strains of Dixie.
Lotus-beans for breakfast were all very well, but you could not dig graveson lotus-beans.
And I swear 'tis into the tenth dozen of graves I have dug--with texts of the holy Koran pouring from me the while without stint.
Two other graves claimed other squares, the fourth lay vacant.
If not, then it is a case of digging graves all my life till I get over-scant of breath for texts and mattock together.
Sally shivered, and glanced across the churchyard, where the water dripped from the bared trees on the graves that were covered thickly with sodden leaves.
In the street below leaves were burning, and while the odour floated up to me I saw again her red shoes dancing over the sunken graves in the churchyard.
The odour of burning leaves floated up from the street, and I saw again her red shoes dancing over the sunken graves in the churchyard.
Come along, George, and we'll look up Robert's and Bushrod's graves in the churchyard.
The sound of the soft rain on the graves outside was in my ears, and instead of my marriage, I found myself thinking of the day I had seen Sally dancing toward me in her red shoes, over the coloured leaves.
In those good old days, our fathers, for the sake of relaxation, talked about death and graves and epitaphs and worms and shrouds and dust and hell.
Some loving hands should close their eyes, some loving lips should leave upon their pallid brows a kiss; some friends should lay the breathless forms away, and on the graves drop blossoms jeweled with the tears of love.
Lovers leave their graves and breathe again their burning vows; and again the white breasts rise and fall in passion's storm.
If they ask for a proscribed man, let them come here; in the morning they will find my body near the graves of the heretics.
The steps of Jacopo were rapid, as he moved towards those proscribed graves among which he had made his confession to the very man he was now sent to slay.
Don Camillo Monforte landed near the retired gravesof the proscribed.
Among thegraves of Hosea's people--why dost thou pull at my skirts, Jew!
The Bravo shuddered, and he moved among the despised graves in silence.
Signor Roderigo, your canals are convenient graves for sudden deaths!
Signori, the night that old Antonio died, I was alone, among the graves of the Lido, with many melancholy and bitter thoughts, and life had become a burden to me.
I saw the mounds of four graves by the fence, where the sheep, seen in the picture, are standing.
Graves immediately prepared for sea, with the whole fleet, consisting of nineteen sail of the line, proceeded in quest of the French.
In its burial inclosure, among graves that were dug a century and a half ago, rest the remains of Wilson, the great American ornithologist.
Graves approached the Capes of the Chesapeake, but, finding the entrance blocked up by a force with which he was unable to contend with a hope of success, he bore away and returned on the morning of the fifth of September.
In a grove of locusts and other trees at the foot of the garden, are the graves of Governor Henry and his first wife.
The form of the fort and outworks, as denoted in the sketch, was easily distinguished, and the serried lines of the soldiers' graves were palpable along the brow of the high bank.
Admiral Graves bore down upon De Grasse, and both fleets, in attempting to gain the weather gage, slowly moved eastward, clear of the Capes, upon the broad Atlantic.
These are the graves of those who were slain in the battle which occurred there in the autumn of 1777.
Around the church are strewn the graves of many of the early settlers, the names of some of whom live in the annals of the state.
The appearance of home-made rafts on a local pond at the end of the month, however, made us think seriously of watery graves in the Scheldt.
The special party told off for this work dug graves in High Wood itself, and all the dead who could be found were buried side by side there.
On Memorial Day the graves have garlands and new pictures of the saints tacked to the headboards.
Then all the little graves in the Campo Santo are brave with tapers, the brown pine headboards blossom like Aaron's rod with paper roses and bright cheap prints of Our Lady of Sorrows.
At one point Blackmore showed us a sheer-sided rock island, on which he said he had once found the graves of two white men, with an inscription so worn as to be indecipherable.
There are a number of graves in the vicinity, but more numerous still are the inscriptions on the cliffs in memory of the victims whose bodies were never recovered for burial.
There were many unidentified gravesall the way round the Bend, he said.
It was evident to his mind that Mr. Graveshad suddenly become crazed about something.
Mr. Graves ejaculated, with a strong and bitter emphasis.
Look here, what is this Sub-Treasury stuff, that Gravesadvertises this morning?
And now, as I have more power overGraves than any of you, let me have the managing of him.
I was afraid he was dead," Mr. Gravesresponded to this, breathing more freely.
And so saying, Mr. Graves retired from the bar-room, to get his dinner, feeling better satisfied with himself than he had been for a long time.
Both Sandy and Graves were now kept as busy as they could be, mixing liquors and serving customers.
And the countenance of Mr. Graves changed its quiet, sad expression, to one of intense agony.
Our friend Graves advertised his 'Sub-Treasury' on that morning.
As soon as this was done, Mr. Graves came in for the first time since dinner.
For nearly half an hour did Graves pace the floor backwards and forwards, his mind in a wild fever of excitement.
In the present instance not only the church itself was destroyed, but the very graves were torn open, and the bodies and bones of the desecrated dead flung from their places of rest--[Facsimile Drawing by H.
The extent of the pagan cemeteries outside of Rome, and the number of graves they contained.
The discovery of the imperial graves which filled the two rotundas did not take place at one and the same time.
When these graves were not very deep, the floor of the basilica was almost level with the ground, as in the case of S.
Peter and Paul, from their graves on the Via Cornelia and the Via Ostiensis, to the catacombs, is not a mere tradition.
The privileges which the Roman law allowed to sepulchres, even of criminals, made it possible for the Christians to keep thesegraves in good order, with impunity.
Thousands of graves must have been sacrificed for the embellishment of one.
It took forty-six years to dig out the contents of that small property, which included twenty-six graves of prætorians and one hundred and forty-one of civilians.
And in case of its belonging to the crypt, was it an isolated record, or did it belong to a group of graves of the Acilii Glabriones?
The pavement of the basilica is sunk to the level of the second floor of the catacombs, in order that the graves of Nereus, Achilleus, and Petronilla could be enclosed in the altar, without being raised, or touched at all.
In looking at these humble graves we cannot help comparing them with the great mausolea of contemporary emperors.
From the numerous aloes growing, it is perhaps to be inferred that graves once existed at this spot.
By Lady Vera's care a plain gray stone was raised above their graves recording their names and nationality, with a brief line commending them to the mercy of Heaven.
I filled up both graves again, and by your father's wish, my lady, no one ever knew that one was empty.
The autumn winds wail sharply round the house, the chilly rain taps at the window pane with ghostly fingers, as if to hint of those two graves lying side by side under the cold and starless sky of night.
She told him cruelly to seek you both in your graves at Glenwood.
On the evening preceding my departure I paid a farewell visit to the graves of my parents, and I shed some very bitter tears when I reflected that I might never again stand by this loved spot.
As it was, when engaged with my duties in the school-room, my thoughts would wander to those two graves in the church-yard, and my tears would fall upon the book from which I was listening to a recitation from my pupils.
Soon after our return to Philadelphia, my uncle accompanied me to the gravesof my parents.
I grieved, it is true, at the thought of leaving the place which contained the graves of my parents.
Since that period I have experienced other sorrows; but the sharpest pang I have ever felt, was when I turned away from the graves where rested the remains of both father and mother.
Blithe from the turf the Dove the blessed leaves[10] 40 That heal the slow plague of the sunless dearth Bears to each sufferer whom the curse bereaves Ev'n of all hope, save graves in that dear earth.
Out from the graves of earth's primaeval bones, 80 The shield of empire, patient Force must win: What made the Briton free?
The dead, fallen by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy, shall come forth from theirgraves to inhabit the earth.
They sleep in death, ready to come, for "All that are in their gravesshall hear the voice of the Son of God, and shall come forth" to resurrection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "graves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
