"Churchyard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with another laugh. "I was just tickled to see you hadn't changed a hair. Now if you'd only moralize on square pegs in round holes, I'd hear again the birds singing in the elms by the dear old churchyard." ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... for a time to hold possession of a considerable part of it. According to the traditions of the district they had all to the east and south-east of the Crasg, a hill situated on the west side of the churchyard of Gairloch, between the present Free and Established Churches. At the east end of the Big Sand, on a high and easily defended rock, stood the last stronghold occupied by the Macleods in Gairloch - to this day known as the "Dun" or Fort. The foundation is still easily traced. It must have ...
— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie
... of the carved emblems were nearly obliterated, and in this state the rood was left where it had fallen, in the altarless church, and was used, it appears, as a bench to sit upon. Later on it was removed from the church and left out in the churchyard. But after many years, a good old minister (God rest his soul!) collected all the pieces he could find, and put them together, adding two new crossbeams (the original ones were lost), and having gaps filled in with little pieces ...
— Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days • Emily Hickey
... the Gent. Mag. for February of this year is the following:—'An elegy wrote in a country churchyard, 6d.' ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell
... In the churchyard adjoining are buried a number of noted patriots, including Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, James Wilson, the first justice of the State and a signer of the Declaration and Constitution, Brigadier General John Forbes, John Penn, Peyton ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins
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