The magpie, that never sits more than a minute at a time in the same place on a Saturday, will on the Sabbath remain on the kirkyard wall with all the composure of a dove.
The hedges where the funeral was to pass were clad with weans, like bunches of hips and haws, and the kirkyard was as if all its own dead were risen.
Two coffins were got, and the bodies laid in them; and the next day, with one of the fatherless bairns in each hand, I followed them to the grave, which was dug in that part of the kirkyard where unchristened babies are laid.
I have the kirkyard to pass; and between the day and the dark it is but a mournful spot" "It is that," answered Marget.
Shrouded in white, her hands full of white asters, Sophy was laid to rest in the little wind blown kirkyard of Pittendurie.
The day was a lovely one, and thekirkyard was crowded to see little Sophy join the congregation of the dead.
On the Sabbath before it, Archie took in the early morning a walk to the kirkyard at Pittendurie.
He had been in the kirkyard often when none but God saw him, and his feet knew well the road to Sophy's grave.
I will die here, but I fain would have my bones to lie beside those of my father and mother in the little kirkyard of Eburn, on the banks of the Teviot.
But his parting moment was eased by the thought that he should sleep in the sod of that kirkyard which was endeared by the love of father and mother.
Whan we got tae the kirkyard the sun was jist plumpin' down; we pat the coffin twice in the grave wrang, and as often had to draw't out again.
Many a maid, with her milk-pail on her head, dashed the whole to the ground when the ghost showed himself at a kirkyard wall, and ran home screaming with affright, and finally fell on the floor in a faint.
This credulous imagining is not exemplified in the kirkyard alone.
It is arranged for twelve o'clock from here, and will arrive at Balquhidder Kirkyard at half-past one, which suits the trains from both the north and the south.
Abbotshall kirkyard is at the right of the railway station as the train pulls in to Kirkcaldy.
But because Marjorie Fleming was born here, passed to and fro, from Granton to Burntisland, in those brief beautiful nine years that were granted to her, and to us, and lies buried in the old kirkyard of Abbotshall.
Hillocks took this view strongly in the kirkyard at the time of John's marriage--although neither he nor any one knew with how much reason--and he impressed the fathers powerfully.
The kirkyardcould see no solution of the problem, and Hillocks grew pessimistic.
Then they will fall into a thoughtful silence, and each knows that his neighbour is following John as he comes down the kirkyard on the great day.
Beyond the kirkyard hedge a horseman passed, fast riding at the trot.
I'm waiting for you, with a thought of what chanced once in Marshcotes kirkyard to keep my blood warm.
I war fair capped to see thy man Witherlee crossing to thekirkyard a while back.
His eyes went from group to group, from thrust to nimble parry, until the kirkyard held naught for him save the dancing shimmer of grey steel.
Eerie as the night was in the belfry, it was wilder yet in the bleak kirkyard without, free to the moor as it was, and full of corners where the wind hid itself to pipe a shriller note than it could compass in the open.
My lover waits me at the kirkyard gate," she faltered; "but I dare not pass the vault-stone.
Once in the kirkyard and once at Marsh--and even the Ratcliffes say thou'rt something between man and devil when a sword is in thy hand.
Ned would not let us go to the kirkyard that day, and there was a merry fight--and now all's as tame as a chushat on the nest.
Like as not there'll be a fight on th' way fro' Marsh to th' kirkyard here.
Wonderful stories circulated through the glen, and were told in the kirkyard of a Sabbath morning, concerning the transformation of Lachlan Campbell.
Sall," said Posty in the kirkyard with keen relish, "ye'll never flurry Drumsheugh.
Jamie, as they stood at the kirkyard gate before dispersing; "there's no a man in the coonty cud hae dune it better.
MacLure, and remarked in the kirkyard all summer that he was failing.
They wore their blacks at a funeral, refusing to cover them with anything, out of respect to the deceased, and standing longest in the kirkyard when the north wind was blowing across a hundred miles of snow.
Then, indeed, was the kirkyard in an angry and a wrathful ferment, and men looked far into each other's eyes for confirmation of their suspicions.
So the Glen adopted Marjorie, and declared in wayside talk and many a kirkyardconference that she had given them more than they had ever given to her.
Better hear them i' the kirkyard than at the closed door, George!
The countenance of thekirkyard lifted, and as Hillocks followed Drumsheugh into kirk, he stopped twice and wagged his head with marked satisfaction.
The kirkyard was only once carried beyond itself by Jock's bills, and that was when he announced Burnbrae's sale.
So it was agreed that the factor should drive out to see for himself, and the kirkyard felt that Hillocks was distinctly holding his own although no one expected him to get the reed covered.
He had planned to pass the place, and then from the footpath to the kirkyard to have looked down on the home of his boyhood, but he need not have taken precautions.
When Jamie "slippit awa" and the kirkyard met to pass judgment, it was agreed that he had been a thorough-going imposter and had quite befooled the outer world, but that he had never taken in the Glen.
Whether a man came east or west, he had the benefit of three bills before he reached the kirk and settled down quietly to the one on the right hand pillar of the kirkyard gate.
Four Sundays after David appeared in the kirkyard with such woe upon his face that Drumsheugh could only imagine one reason, and omitted preliminaries.
And he reported his achievement to the kirkyard next Sabbath in the tone of one who could now look forward to nothing but a life of grinding poverty.
He had even got the laird to refuse burial in the kirkyard to ony who refused to hear his fushionless preaching.
Only the worn pedestal of its "mercat-cross" and a lone kirkyard have been left to tell the tale.
They were taken prisoners to Edinburgh, and penned, half naked, in the same Grayfriars kirkyard in which the Covenant was signed in 1638.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kirkyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
