God's acre
Example Sentences
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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
God's acre was silent, but for the rustling of the autumn leaves of the weeping willows.
From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
The wind from the sea was blowing fresh and free over the village, and beyond it to the little churchyard, the God's acre of Northbourne.
From The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by M. B. Manwell
The other found a narrow bed Within God's acre, peaceful, lone; The throng cared not that he was dead, A man uncultured and unknown.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett
Yet its very name is poetical, Savernake, i.e., savernesacre—like the God's acre of Longfellow.
From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant
