A tooth from this strange and lonely graveyard was enclosed in a little box and sent to a friend in London with instructions to place it unopened in the hands of a clairvoyant.
Each sorry relic represents its quota of human lives, and, remembering this, it is as if you were in some sort of concentrated graveyard where the bones of the poor dead are not even decently covered and concealed from sight.
Hidden among its trees in a dip of the land lies Phillack with a badly restored church, and in the graveyard a good two-holed cross; but as this bay is famous for pilchard fishing the main interest lies towards the sea.
In the church are preserved several pieces of carved alabaster, the intention of which is not known, and in the graveyard lies a large stone coffin.
In an old graveyard at the corner of Fifth and Arch, a section of iron railing in the stone wall which surrounds it permits the passer to view the plain marble slab which covers the remains of Franklin and his wife.
The Eastern Cemetery, on Congress street, is the oldestgraveyard in Portland.
A venerable graveyardlies to its north, where repose the remains of Alexander Hamilton, Captain Lawrence, of the Chesapeake, Robert Fulton, and the unfortunate Charlotte Temple.
In the graveyard which surrounds it are found the dead of nearly two centuries ago, some of the slate-stones over the older graves having been imported from the mother country.
Even at my feet is cleft a shivering tomb Beneath the waves; or else with solemn hush The graveyard opens, and I feel a crush As if we were all huddled in one doom.
And the colonel understood, and he took mercy on 'em, so that's why if the Germans should happen to arrive at night by way of the graveyard they could march right among us, probably without having a shot fired at them.
It's quiet as a graveyard now, but for a while this mornin' one of their sharpshooters got busy right over there in front of where you're lookin' now.
I don’t believe they cared anything for the graves; they only thought there was some money buried somewhere in the graveyard during the war.
It was not long after that the general died, and to quiet some rumors of disturbance in the graveyard his coffin was dug up.
A graveyard with its humble crosses would be the aptest symbol of the future.
But when all was over, when we were trooping in decent silence from the graveyard gate and down the path to the settlement, a sudden inbreak of a different spirit startled and perhaps dismayed us.
At the same time there came the news of a burial in the rustic graveyard of Glencorse.
They took him to the graveyard and laid him away to rest, His body lies mouldering, his soul is among the blest.
As you wheeled into this graveyardhe gave us one final order.
Ye'll promise me I'll be put in the graveyard over to Tiverton, and me got the money to pay.
He'd think he was a Mormon or a Turk," observed Miss Charlotte Kendall, with her deep, throaty chuckle that not even the solemnity of the graveyard could subdue.
There are a number of soldiers buried in the graveyard of this place.
Outside in the graveyard the graves lay open and the bones of the dead were scattered broadcast over the green grass.
From that moment her little boy and poor Tom, dead in the city graveyard yonder, were as one to the mother: she nursed them in her heart together.
Kanaka who had built his house inside the churchyard as a joke: he had sufficient reason, after seeing the graveyard saved, to believe that his own home would be preserved.
We went on through the village and came to the graveyard, and it was the most remarkable graveyard I have ever seen.
At the outer edge of the graveyard were three wooden crosses that marked the graves of the former wives of the Dutch trader.
It looked as if the stream had parted and gone around the graveyard and joined into one stream after the place had been passed.
Two singers of the highway are there, leaning on the graveyard wall, and they intone, with a tambourine and a guitar, an old seguidilla of Spain, bringing here the warm and somewhat Arabic gaieties of the lands beyond the frontiers.
In the twilights without rain, with the sisters and some older pupils of their class, she sat under the porch of the church, against the low wall of the graveyard from which the view plunges into the valleys beneath.
The graveyard was an inclosure on the grounds of Mr. Wharton, which had been fenced with stone and set apart for the purpose, by that gentleman, some years before.
I went and bought myself a lot in a graveyard at Cambridge Springs, Pa.
On the left is the graveyard of the city, its white stones like glittering specks dotting the hill side.
The graveyard of Canada in Flanders is very large.
In walking up this hill, and thinking that it might have been in front of me when my tricycle ran away, I could not keep my mind away from the little graveyard at the foot of the Swiss mountain.
How they could walk through that graveyard and read the inscriptions on the tombstones and then go and climb that mountain is more than I can imagine.
No haunted house, no barren moor, no neglected graveyard ever spoke more poignantly, more mournfully, with such utter hopelessness.
She unearthed him, or rather ran him to earth, in the graveyard of the Presbyterian church at Bordentown.
We might safely assume that the hospitals and the graveyard of Maubeuge would be busy places that evening, thereby offering strong contrasts to the rest of the town.
Yes, it was thegraveyard not alone of their homes but of their prosperity and their hopes and their ambitions and their aspirations-- the graveyard of everything human beings count worth having.
Soldiers paddled on the water in skiffs and thousands of ravens flickered about the pinnacles of the rocks, but between river and cliff there was nothing but ruination--the graveyard of the homes of three thousand people.
Part of it was on crutches and part of it was in the graveyard and the rest of it was in the field.
There was not a single American plane in the sky above the graveyard of those vanished warships.
A score of ships had been destroyed utterly above the graveyard of dreadnoughts, yet only one aero-sub, and that quite by chance, had been marked off in the casualty column.
We buried Joe Miller in the pine-shadowed graveyard near the fort.
The graveyard and the funeral had few of those accessories of the modern mortuary which are supposed to be the characteristics of civilized sorrow.
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