God's acre

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This God's acre, where is traced indelibly in these rows of glorious stones the symbol of the spirit of this great country, and the record of the nation's sacrifice in the cause of freedom.

From Time Magazine Archive

And indeed everything seems to centre around God's acre, and the spire of the meeting-house points in the same direction as the stories themselves.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

The Sun-land behind the hillocks of the God's acre, behind the pest-cloud of Death, is covered by a complete, an impenetrable darkness of twelve inches, or of as many holy nights.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Feuerbach teaches that the memento mori of reason meets us everywhere in the spiritual God's acre of literature.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The manager asked me to consecrate this little plot of ground with a larger space added to it, so that they might have their own little God’s acre.

From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert