"Burial ground" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so ill, after his free life in the woods, that he fell ill, and was reduced to so weak a state that he lay like one dead—the jailer indeed thought that he was so, and he was carried out to be cast into the prison burial ground, when a woman, who had been his nurse, begged his body. She had it carried to her house, and then discovered that life yet remained, and by great care and good nursing succeeded in restoring him. In order to prevent suspicion that he was still alive a fictitious funeral was performed. On recovering, ...
— In Freedom's Cause • G. A. Henty
... over, the crowd scattered to their vehicles and the wheels clattered over the metaled roads, but in the burial ground, when all the rest ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... they stood was even now, for the mounds so long ago heaped there had been levelled by generations of time. Later members of that house who had passed away lay in the small thicket-choked burial ground a hundred yards to ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... Churchyard, which served as the burial ground to no less than twenty-three city parishes, became overcrowded and greatly added to the insanitary condition of the city by its shallow graves. The mayor informed the lords of the council of this state of affairs by letter (15 May, 1582), ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe
... by the same powerful agent far from home, and is buried in a land of strangers. A brother sleeps by his mother's side in the family burial ground. ...
— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna
... in the shade of the roadside trees where the star-spotted leopard's black paws were plunged deepest. On he went, in zig-zag profusion of steps and occasional high skips over incidental shadows of branches which he for snakes, until the Pauper Burial Ground was reached, and MCLAUGHLIN'S hidden subterranean retreat therein attained. It was the same weird spot to which he had been brought by Old MORTARITY on the wintry night of their unholy exploring party; ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., Issue 31, October 29, 1870 • Various
... The English burial ground is in this neighborhood; it is a small place, and walled in. The mortality amongst the troops was very great during the occupancy of this place, and this area is said to contain ...
— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay
... will proceed to the cemetery at St. Ana's. Arrived at the gates of the burial ground, everybody will return home without waiting for the interment, which in Cuba is performed by a couple of black sextons who, unattended by either priest, mourner, or any other person, lower the remains into the hole which has ...
— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman
... death of Sidonia, I might justly close my book, merely stating in addition, that her ashes were laid in the burial ground for the poor, and that some time after the gentle Diliana caused a tombstone to be erected over them, out of Christian charity and forgiveness. But as some say his Highness the Duke got his death at the wedding of Diliana, I shall ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... and Paul noted with excitement that it bore a Derbyshire postmark. It was dated from the house of one of Don's innumerable cousins, a house of a type for which the Peak district is notable, a manor of ghostly repute. This cheerful homestead was apparently constructed in or adjoining an ancient burial ground, was in fact a converted monastery, and Don dealt in characteristically whimsical fashion with its ...
— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer |
