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Burying ground   /bˈɛriɪŋ graʊnd/   Listen
Burying ground

noun
1.
A tract of land used for burials.  Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, cemetery, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis.






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"Burying ground" Quotes from Famous Books



... recognition. They placed it in the coffin with the nurse and buried it temporarily. The Major meant to have it brought home, but it was so long before they could get about it, and it seemed like living the heart-breaking episode over, so he concluded to have it permanently interred in a burying ground a few miles distant, which is now a really beautiful spot. Mrs. Crawford was ill so long that it seems like a ...
— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... now the village stands, Its cottages embowered in bloom; Behind me lies the burying ground, Its sepulchres in ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... advantage." This report further said that "Many in the town and country were freeholders, several worth from $300 to $1,300. Various associations among the free blacks for mutual support, benefit and improvement had been established. One of these had a lot for a burying ground and the site of a church worth fifteen hundred dollars. All were in a state of progressive improvement."[6] Still another part of the report made by these delegates stated that "on the whole they exhibited an example of successful industry highly honorable to themselves, gratifying ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... intolerable pain of confession, the gasp for breath, the sudden fall, the quiet funeral, his own responsibility for this tragic death—he lived it all over and over again in an instant of time as grief, regret, remorse, successively swept his heart. Tying his horse outside the lonely burying ground, he threaded his way among the myrtle-covered graves to the low mound which marked her resting place, approached it, removed his hat and stood silently, reverently, by ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss

... purchased a piece of land in Spanish Town, the capital of this Island, for a burying ground, with a house upon it, which serves for a Meeting-house. James Jones, Esq., one of the magistrates of this town, and Secretary of the Island, told me, that the Hon. William Mitchell, Esq., the Gustos, had empowered him to grant me license to preach ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... before the monster that is for ever stalking through that land of lakes and rivers, breathing fever and death around. It was nine weeks before I left my room, and when I did, I looked more fit to walk into the Potter's Field, (as they call the English burying ground) ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope

... heaped over Naomi's grave in the Avonlea burying ground, Caroline took Eunice and Christopher home with her. Christopher did not want to go; it was Eunice who reconciled him. He clung to her with an exacting affection born of loneliness ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... blackberry pie did he break into speech, and even then, it appeared, not with the utmost felicity. His information that these here blackberries had been picked off the grave of some old Jonas Whipple up in the burying ground caused him to be regarded coldly by more than one of those about the table; and Winona wished to be told how many times she had asked him not to say "these here." Of course he ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "Burying ground" :   land site, site, potter's field, necropolis



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