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
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
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 Blewett, Jean
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
He went up the road that led to another hillside, where, in the long, dreamy shadows, the dwellers in God's acre lay at peace.
From Flower of the Dusk by Reed, Myrtle
