Our graveyards contain many tombstones inscribed to the memory of old servants.
Similar epitaphs to the foregoing may be found in manygraveyards in this country.
To the left of the city the slopes of one hill are dotted with neatly kept Christian cemeteries, and the slopes of another display the disorderly multitude of tombstones characteristic of the graveyards of Islam.
If the locality is visited by a prolonged drought and the usual official prayers have been unavailing, the people petition the magistrate to send out his runners to inspect all the graveyards of the neighbourhood.
Indeed, in a region like the north-eastern extremity of Shantung, where there is of course no tropical vegetation and where timber is scarce, the wooded graveyards form one of the pleasantest features in every landscape.
The mode of punishment often chosen by the elders for offences connected with graveyards is to compel the accused to make an expiatory offering to the dead whose spirits he is supposed to have offended.
But there is nothing dismal in the family graveyards that dot the valleys of the country districts in the north.
While Southern cities looked like garrisoned graveyards the North had never worn a busier or more prosperous appearance.
An interesting monograph might be written on the private graveyards in some parts of the East.
There are now, with the exception of the cemetery of Trinity Church, which is located near Washington Heights, no graveyards in use on the island.
The oldgraveyards of New York were located in what is now the heart of the city; and, with the exception of the churchyards, have all passed away.
Superstition tottered when in 1999 graveyards had been abolished by law, as well as custom.
When graveyards were abolished and bodies were promptly reduced to ashes after death, superstition began to weaken.
The other nine parish churches and their graveyards were within the walls; but the parishes of three of them extended beyond the gates, just as the three parishes dedicated to St Botolph at the gates of London did.
There are no such epitaphs in the graveyards of Lombardy; nor could there be any such in that of Dunblane, but for the Reformation.
There is said to be in some one of thegraveyards of Orkney, a tombstone on which an angel may be seen blowing a great trumpet with all his might, while the dead man below is made to say, "When I hear this, I will rise.
It seems to me that the owners of cemeteries and graveyards should keep in their own hand the right to refuse inappropriate and ludicrous epitaph.
It is safe to say that most of the home-made poetry of graveyards is an offence to God and man.
We had not then learned, from that vivacious people, who have neither taste nor talent for being sad, to convert our graveyards into pleasure grounds.
Could anything be worse than the graveyardsof the metropolis?
It is very suggestive of the unhealthiness of underground graveyards as places of residence.
Mosques are plenty, churches are plenty, graveyards are plenty, but morals and whiskey are scarce.
The different graveyards are now so crowded that it will take several days to bury all the bodies that have been deposited in them.
To-day the cars sent out from Pittsburgh with provisions for the living were hastily cleared in order to contain the bodies of the dead intended for interment in suburban cemeteries and in graveyards handy to the city.
The town becomes as silent as the graveyards which have been filled with its victims.
There seem to be many Turks living here, and in these parts I passed many dilapidated graveyards on my way, and every village has a mosque or two.
Grandmother took me sometimes to walk in these graveyards at night, and there talked to me about God and heaven and the angels.
The Sacs and Foxes in Iowa have their graveyards on the side of a hill, high above the surrounding country.
Sometimes these stone graves of Tennessee are not placed in mounds, but in true graveyards in the level fields.
This was with a grin and a wave of the hand toward the long line of temple buildings and graveyards they were passing.
The virtuous resolution was the outcome of his meditation and glances into the many graveyards passed in his progress through the temple-lined street.
But for dust there is dew, and even to graveyards the morning comes that brings dew and light together.
Perhaps the Assyrians, or rather those among them who could afford the expenses of the journey, had their dead transferred to the graveyards of Lower Chaldæa.
You traverse infinite graveyards and scenes of desolation like an arrow of thought, and alight where the German soldiers wished to be.
The graveyards are many, and they have their history.
And'll have graveyards to 'em--folks must be laid away somewhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "graveyards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
