How To Use Churchyard In A Sentence
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The Corbridge pele, built of reused Roman stonework, lies on the edge of the churchyard and was the vicar's house.
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“Prospered, quotha!” said the mercer; “why, you remember Cumnor Place, the old mansion-house beside the churchyard?”
Kenilworth
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Today, on the Sunday closest to what used to be called Armistice Day, thousands will gather around war memorials, in country churchyards and civic centres to remember the dead of armed conflicts since 1914.
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These latter included wills, churches and churchyards, religious obligations, tithes, marriage, slander, and sorcery.
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In recent decades, the Severn has been steadily undercutting the riverside churchyard at Newnham.
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A few more yards due south of that, hard by the western approach to the Limehouse Link, there's a little park, perhaps an ex-churchyard to go with the ex-rectory.
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My photo below shows the rebuilt anchorage on the east wall in the peaceful churchyard surrounded by the bustle of the city centre.
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From its famous open pulpit in the old hospital churchyard many an inflammatory sermon had been preached.
THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
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In daily use for more than 300 years, the landmark rises from the churchyard in Allouville-Bellefosse.
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This ended the controversy and at last the Sutton villagers were able to be buried in their own churchyard.
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He and others: while again Mirabeau, we say, is cast forth from it, happily incapable of being replaced; and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night, in the central 'part of the Churchyard Sainte-Catherine, in the Suburb Saint-Marceau,' to be disturbed no further.
The French Revolution
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Once off the A19, the roads to Kepwick were bordered by thick drifts of snowdrops and we found more growing alongside winter aconite in the small churchyard.
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These were large spaces of unconsecrated ground, away from churchyards or the centre of town.
Times, Sunday Times
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She sat in the churchyard of the ancient parish church of Ruthven; and when she lifted up her eyes, there she saw, in the half-ruined belfry, the old bell, all but hidden with ivy, which the passing wind had roused to utter one sleepy tone; and there beside her, stood the fool with the bell on his arm; and to him and to her the _wow o 'Rivven_ said, "_Come hame, come hame_!
The Portent & Other Stories
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From its famous open pulpit in the old hospital churchyard many an inflammatory sermon had been preached.
THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
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In 1963 Aysgarth had commissioned her to produce the now notorious sculpture which I had succeeded in banning from the Cathedral churchyard.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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We have found a nice spot for her in our quiet churchyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having looked in the local churchyards and cemeteries, I can find no trace of any Jacksons.
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The church, which has no vicar of its own, being served from Selmeston, a mile away, stands high amid its graves, the whole churchyard having been heaped up and ramparted much as a castle is.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
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It was never a formal or tidy place, the very opposite of our municipal cemeteries and more like an unkempt churchyard.
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In the new cemeteries, which came into existence to relieve overcrowded churchyards, gatehouses were often provided for watchmen.
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Mr. Smith (also a choirman) owned the Clewer Nursery Gardens in Surly Hall Road (now Maidenhead Rd.) and was responsible for the grave-digging and churchyard upkeep.
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Sections of the churchyard and a whole path were dug up and stones taken in the last two years in six separate raids.
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As with many former churches, the surrounding churchyard is not included in the sale.
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Maybe the descendants of whoever was buried here wanted to reinter the remains in a churchyard or family gravesite and figured the park service wouldn't let them," Anna suggested.
Hunting Season
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The impressions his mind had received while passing the churchyard, now returned upon him with added gloom; a kind of misgiving came over him; and a thousand boding thoughts haunted him like spirits, and hanging, as it were, on his heart, dragged it down farther and farther at every step.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828
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A man dragged her into an alleyway, and attacked her in a nearby churchyard.
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On hearing a rumour that Isabella is with Theodore in the churchyard, Manfred rushes thither, and stabs the woman - only to find it is his daughter, Matilda.
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It was also used for watering the flowers in the churchyard, and for drinking water.
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What is not disputed is that the bell was standing in a belfry atop the Kettins church by the late 17th century, before it was taken down and placed in the churchyard in 1893.
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Stone slabs surrounding the churchyard were knocked over and iron railings and the church noticeboard flattened after a green Rover car which was being followed by police went out of control.
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On reaching the churchyard and turning the corner towards the spot as usual, she was surprised to perceive another woman, also apparently a respectable widow, and with a tiny boy by her side, bending over Clark's turf, and spudding up with the point of her umbrella some ivy-roots that
A Changed Man; and other tales
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On the Garden-side it is bordered by a shadowy, secluded grove, with winding paths among its boskiness, affording many a peep at the river's imperceptible lapse and tranquil gleam; and on the opposite shore stands the priory-church, with its churchyard full of shrubbery and tombstones.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
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Although, therefore, the learned divine's monument, with his name duly inscribed, is to be seen at the east end of the churchyard at Aberfoyle, yet those acquainted with his real history do not believe that he enjoys the natural repose of the tomb.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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This afternoon she was content to "scriggle" through the sketchers, and humming a little tune, she passed up to the churchyard.
Miss Mapp
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A colony of 25 rare striped lychnis moth caterpillars has been found in a churchyard at Headbourne Worthy in Hampshire.
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Within the churchyard, somebody has taken the time and trouble to make a memorial stone.
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But York Archaeological Trust's latest venture is strictly surface-bound and involves the transformation of an under-used city centre churchyard.
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Some churchyards still have small cemeteries.
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This book on the subject of Dublin's burial grounds and graveyards records in much detail many of the city's forgotten churchyards and cemeteries.
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Human bones have been exposed on the cliff edge as a result of landslips at Whitby's historic parish churchyard.
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We slipped through St Bartholomew's churchyard, snowdrops fading, the fruit and nut trees blossoming, and channelled down a track towards the River Ure.
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The other is connected to fees that should have gone to the parochial council for churchyard monuments.
The Sun
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Go right into the churchyard, follow the path to the arched exit and on to the field.
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The woman continued walking along the alley and into the churchyard at St John's Church, Great Clacton.
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Guarding the entrance of the churchyard, four poplar trees stand erect, save when, as the wind harries them, they bow alternately to the arid, dusty earth and towards the dim vista of tow - coloured steppe and snowcapped mountain peaks.
Through Russia
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While in Yorkshire she continued her research, visiting churchyards, inspecting parish records and looking up archives, and collating the mass of information she gathered with the intention of publishing it.
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Marcia pointed out that at the same time as the High Street trees were planted a lime tree was put in the churchyard at the top of the street.
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One of my best-beloved churchyards I call the churchyard of St. Ghastly Grim; touching what men in general call it, I have no information.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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I was willing to bet she'd arrived in the minivan now sitting frumpily among the other vehicles pulled up to the wire strung between white posts to separate the gravel parking lot from the grass of the churchyard.
Grave Surprise
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Mr Smith was buried at Eastbrookend Cemetery, Dagenham, and his name was engraved on the headstone of his family plot at Dagenham Parish Churchyard.
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“True, true,” said Cromwell, “they shall be removed to the churchyard, and every soldier shall attend with cockades of sea-green and blue ribbon — Every one of the non-commissioned officers and adjutators shall have a mourning-scarf; we ourselves will lead the procession, and there shall be a proper dole of wine, burnt brandy, and rosemary.
Woodstock
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Although located on the edge of town and managed by a municipality rather than a religious body, Church Street Graveyard bore many similarities to traditional New England churchyards.
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'Now,' I said, after, congratulating him on his recovery, 'if it doesn't excite you too much tell me exactly what occurred in the churchyard last night, for 'tis an absolute mystery to me, besides having given me an awful "gliff," old fellow, for I have been wondering what might have happened if I hadn't by the merest chance discovered you in your premature grave.'
Border Ghost Stories
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Lares and Penates, their wives, families, and friends, who will lay out the church and the churchyard after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and who will not forget the palaver - house, vulgarly called pothouse or pub.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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The cenotaphs or other monuments locally had to be in public places and not hidden in churchyards.
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1794.14 - "The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.
The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.
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So I walked into Greyfriar's churchyard, found a quiet corner, sat next to some dead guy called Archibald and started digging into the back of my hand with anything sharp that was lying around.
Calmish Diary Entry
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Territories were well-demarcated, but the boys respected the churchyard as neutral ground.
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Early the next morning a woman walking her dog near St Mark's church in Woodhouse, Leeds, saw a man slumped against the churchyard gate.
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'Well,' he said slowly, 'I once got a "gliff" myself in exactly the same place as I made a short cut through the churchyard one autumn evening.
Border Ghost Stories
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The little porch marked the entrance to a churchyard.
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Thomas Hardy took a line from Thomas Gray's poem, Elegy in a country Churchyard, as the title for his most successful novel.
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A Sussex country churchyard in October: the leaves on the trees are turning golden, in the distant Wealden valley autumnal mist is beginning to rise, crows are cawing overhead, sheep are bleating in a nearby field and I am standing in front of the dilapidated grave of one of England's greatest cricketers.
Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave
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Once, beside the foot of the cross which stood in Sancreed [Footnote: This fine sculptured cross has since these events been placed within the said churchyard, at the desire of Mr.A. G. Langdon, the greatest living authority on the subject of Cornish remains.] churchyard wall, between two tree-trunks under a dome of leaves, the girl found growing a spotted persicaria, and the force of the discovery at such a spot was great to her.
Lying Prophets
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She was laid to rest in the churchyard.
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The churchyard is not enclosed and is used as a main route through the town centre.
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The churchyard is lined with milagro vendors, and no trip to the Basilica is the same without buying up at least a few.
The Serene Magic Of Patzcuaro
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One theme treated several times in his voluminous writings was whether laymen and women should be allowed to dance in churchyards on feast days.
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These ordinances were read out before the community at a further churchyard meeting in September and received community assent.
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Funerals are held in churches, and burials are in churchyards or public cemeteries.
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Outside of the main churchyard was a little enclosed area, probably ear-marked for new resting places.
Unexpected Alphabets No 4
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Indeed it was his custom, though Elsie had not known it, to follow every funeral going to this, his favourite churchyard of Ruthven; and, possibly in imitation of its booming, for it was still tolled at the funerals, he had given the old bell the name of _the wow_, and had translated its monotonous clangour into the articulate sounds -- _come hame, come hame_.
The Portent & Other Stories
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He thought of the immensities beyond himself, from the grass growing in the churchyard to the infinite galaxies.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of my best beloved churchyards, I call the churchyard of Saint
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Although Spencer created many wildly imaginative scenes such as the dead rising from their tombs in the churchyard, nearly all his paintings were set in the Berkshire village of Cookham where he lived.
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The small churchyard was surrounded by a rusted wrought-iron fence.
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Did I deserve to die, and be buried in the churchyard like my uncle Reed?
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Historically the territory of bullfighters, bandits, guerrillas and smugglers, this rocky region was doubtless seen by Welles as more akin to his buccaneering spirit than some genteel churchyard.
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When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it “with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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The same youth was one of a group who were arrested trespassing at Malmesbury Abbey churchyard last month.
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There were an estimated 80,000 graves in the churchyard dating back to the early 1700s.
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However he did get his wish as now he rests under the tall trees where the birds sing in Tourlestrane churchyard.
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Report from our correspondent yesterday before dawn, a passenger train derails in Guangxi churchyard.
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Bo had a flexuous and finely-drawn figure not unreminiscent of many a vanished knight and dame, her remote progenitors, whose dust now mouldered in many churchyards.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892
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Some of these ordinary people lay quiet and undisturbed in the churchyards of our parish churches, mouldering silently away, their faith in the certainty of bodily resurrection yet to be realized.
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The body of her grandmother reposes in the churchyard.
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In Zacatepec, Mexico, the gate to the churchyard is for pedestrian access only.
In Zacatepec, Mexico, the gate to the churchyard is for pedestrian access only. © Julia Taylor, 2008
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They moved into the churchyard to get out of the light and he led her around to a paved area at the rear of the church.
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As for burial in a churchyard or a church service for the dead person, the position is again a very complicated one.
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Settle parish churchyard was filling up rapidly and would have to close in two years.
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Most Icelanders are put to rest in a grave, which is two metres deep, in a churchyard subsequent to the appropriate ceremony.
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The village is named after St Wrw, whose remains are said to be buried in the chantry chapel in the churchyard.
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The Corbridge pele, built of reused Roman stonework, lies on the edge of the churchyard and was the vicar's house.
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In times of dearth, body snatchers would try other sources: country churchyards further afield would be raided if they were on good communications routes - road, canal, or sea.
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His grandfather lies in the churchyard.
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The panel was unveiled in the churchyard following a special service at the parish church.
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For, it is impossible to turn our eyes on any point of the starlit vista of human history, without being overwhelmed with a heart-breaking sense of the immense treasure of radiant human lives that has gone to its making, the innumerable dramatic careers now shrunk to a mere mention, the divinely passionate destinies, once all wild dream and dancing blood, now nought but a name huddled with a thousand such in some dusty index, seldom turned to even by the scholar, and as unknown to the world at large as the moss-grown name on some sunken headstone in a country churchyard.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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And then each ghost with his ladye-toast to their churchyards bed take flight
Am ded, call vet to cancel appointmentz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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In Hewelsfield churchyard further down the green lane, I squeezed inside the hollow of the thousand-year-old yew and looked up into the lantern of its twisted trunk, illuminated like the inside of a dovecot through the perforations where long-dead boughs once emerged.
Wildwood
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And when the fire was out the giant rats came back, took the dead horse, dragged it across the churchyard into the brickfield and ate at it until it was dawn, none even then daring to disturb them ....
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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Did I deserve to die, and be buried in the churchyard like my uncle Reed?
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Bolivian President Morales says army, police officials in contact with CIA; offers no proof Teenage girl decapitated 700 years ago reburied in English churchyard Hood not so good?
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest Castile soap, whereof part remaineth with us. [
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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His last/final resting place was in the churchyard in the village where he was born.
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A meeting between the town council, churchwardens and the Archdeacon of Colchester to discuss the churchyard is set for April 30.
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The small churchyard was surrounded by a rusted wrought-iron fence.
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Funerals are held in churches, and burials are in churchyards or public cemeteries.
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The light of Troy’s lantern in the churchyard was noticed about ten o’clock by the maid-servant, who casually glanced from the window in that direction whilst taking her supper, and she called Bathsheba’s attention to it.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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The village has a green, communally owned by the freeholders and stocks in the churchyard.
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I've seen McTurk being hounded up the stairs to elegise the 'Elegy in a Churchyard,' while
Stalky & Co.
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Both are buried at Orton churchyard in a grave without a headstone.
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard' is a famous English poem.
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In places like these you can always find a public park, a neglected patch of grass with a broken bench, a churchyard fully-equipped with raddled drunks.
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The view from the churchyard is inviting, since the church is built on top of a small hill.
It's hot in Zacatepec, Morelos
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The heady scent of blossom had hung about the churchyard.
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The earliest known reference to stoolball is in a 1330 poem by William Pagula, who recommended to priests that the game be forbidden within churchyards.
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In an address to the American Legion delivered on the steps of Federal Hall in New York in September 1945, after first paying tribute to his ancestor Anthony deMil, who was buried nearby in Trinity churchyard, to John Peter Zenger and to George Washington, who was inaugurated on the same spot, DeMille launched into his primary points:
Empire of Dreams
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Many churchyard crosses were destroyed in daring midnight raids by local youths.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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The future will organize the exodus of whole villages, which, like those of the Hebrides in the last century, will bear with them to new worlds their Lares and Penates, their wives, families, and friends, who will lay out the church and the churchyard after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and who will not forget the palaver-house, vulgarly called pothouse or pub.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Americans have bought because they have ancestors buried in the local churchyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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I understand that you want a short service here in the house and then straight to the churchyard for the interment.
GOODBYE CURATE
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The Cemetery of the Year competition is open to all British cemeteries, burial grounds, churchyards or crematoriums.
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The little porch marked the entrance to a churchyard.
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Just now, it looks splendid with carpets of primroses in the churchyard and inside, much repair work completed.
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Some of these ordinary people lay quiet and undisturbed in the churchyards of our parish churches, mouldering silently away, their faith in the certainty of bodily resurrection yet to be realized.
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Jesty died in Worth Matravers 16 April 1816 and was buried in the parish churchyard.
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This affluent and woody oasis of tranquillity contrasts starkly with the roughly hewn stakes of the Catholic churchyard on the outer edges of the demesne.
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As I round the corner one of the large banners, untethered at the bottom, billows in the wind, revealing a glimpse of old gravestones in the churchyard.
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The churchyard is the location of the grave of Emily Wilding Davison, a lady with strong North Eastern roots who sacrificed her life for the Suffrage movement.
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The ceaseless reinterments in a big town churchyard meant, in any case, that you could not expect a grave site to be permanently set apart for its tenant.
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Why at night both my gentlemen had kibed heels, a tetter in the chin, a churchyard cough in the lungs, a catarrh in the throat, a swingeing boil at the rump, and the devil of one musty crust of a brown george the poor dogs had to scour their grinders with.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Now the entire sum barely dents the 2,000 annual cost of maintaining the churchyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stane was a natural stone or erection of masonry which stood at the churchyard gates, to enable parishioners to mount horses or carts easily, particularly useful for women riding pillion.
Tam o' Crumstan
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The light of Troy's lantern in the churchyard was noticed about ten o'clock by the maid-servant, who casually glanced from the window in that direction whilst taking her supper, and she called Bathsheba's attention to it.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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The council maintains 11 parks and recreation grounds, six cemeteries and churchyards, 41 play areas and various open space sites.
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The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.
The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.
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In many rural areas the tree was deemed sacred and thus is widely planted in churchyards.
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Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park.
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Before and after the Reformation the families of the deceased commemorated them by erecting tombs bearing brasses or sculptures or placed elaborate gravestones in churchyards.
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Having looked in the local churchyards and cemeteries, I can find no trace of any Jacksons.
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When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.
Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals
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He desired to be buried in the churchyard of the minster so that ‘the sweet rain of heaven might fall upon his grave’.
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I don't know what the statistics are, but a large proportion of people are buried in churchyards in cemeteries, and even, these days, in some other sites in the country.
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For his funeral the Archbishop's pall was borne by Sheffield steelworkers to his last resting place in the old churchyard in Bishopthorpe.
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More than half the burials in the churchyard have taken place in the last 20 years.
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He and his wife devoted many hours to the horticultural improvement of the local parish churchyard and shortly before retirement he took up cabinetmaking.
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Many came on foot, and of these by much the larger part meant to accompany the _cortège_ only to the top of the Armboth Fell, and, having "sett" it so far, to face no more of the more than twenty miles of rough country that lay between the valley and the churchyard on the plains by the sea.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
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The few cottages that remain speak of other days, and the old churchyard, and the jougs -- an iron collar in which offenders were pilloried -- fastened to the porch of the church, bring back the long-forgotten past.
Chronicles of Strathearn
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Four years ago a new cemetery was opened in Whitehill after the churchyards at Blackmoor and Headley became full.
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By the time his body was laid to rest in the family vault in Paddington Old Churchyard in August 1780, he appears to have been impoverished and did not leave a will.
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The most ancient churches in Wales have circular or ovoidal churchyards -- a form essentially Celtic -- and it may well be that these sacred spots were dedicated to religious purposes in pagan times, and were appropriated by the early Christians, -- not, perhaps, without opposition on the part of the adherents of the old faith -- and consecrated to the use of the Christian religion.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
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Valuable stone flags and memorial stones have been stolen by thieves in a series of churchyard raids.
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Arching over the entrance to the churchyard is an amazing piece of artwork.
Tepoztlan, Morelos Has It All - Part One
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Harriette gives the honour of her introduction into the mysteries of Cytherea to the Earl of Craven; but it is well known that a certain dashing solicitor's clerk then living in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, and near her amiable mamma's residence, first engrossed, her attention, and by whom she exhibited increasing symptoms of affection, which being properly engrafted on the person of the fair stockinger, in due time required a release from a practitioner of another profession; an innocent affair that now lies buried deep in an odd corner at the old churchyard at Chelsea, without a monumental stone or epitaph to point out the early virtues of the fair Cytherean.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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That meant he could live in a cottage with a view of the churchyard - like Dymlight has.
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Another is that it's the phantom of a woman buried in the churchyard, who died with a guilty secret.
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The gardens which surround the property include beech, lime and holm oak trees while in the eastern corner is an ancient churchyard.
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Alpiew turned, but the Countess was already half-way across the adjoining churchyard of St Bartholomew the Less.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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True, true," said Cromwell, "they shall be removed to the churchyard, and every soldier shall attend with cockades of sea-green and blue ribbon -- Every one of the non-commissioned officers and adjutators shall have a mourning-scarf; we ourselves will lead the procession, and there shall be a proper dole of wine, burnt brandy, and rosemary.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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When we arrived at the churchyard, I donned my surplice and stole ready for the procession to the graveside.
GOODBYE CURATE
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The churchyard is the location of the grave of Emily Wilding Davison, a lady with strong North Eastern roots who sacrificed her life for the Suffrage movement.
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The gates beneath the outer arch are kept locked save on Sundays, as are frequently the gates in the railings surrounding the churchyard to the south of the minster, which is divided from the churchyard on the north side by the church itself and by railings at the east and west ends of it.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings
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Summoning up my most irritated manner I retorted rudely: `Oh, go and set up a fortune-teller 's tent in the Cathedral churchyard!
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Historically, burial was the responsibility of the established church, and was provided for in churchyards adjacent to parish churches.
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After returning to the rectory from the churchyard, Mike had spent an hour pacing up and down.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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It is perhaps necessary to add that the superstition illustrated by the following story, namely, that the corpse last buried is obliged, during his juniority of interment, to supply his brother tenants of the churchyard in which he lies, with fresh water to allay the burning thirst of purgatory, is prevalent throughout the south of Ireland.
The Purcell Papers
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There was a sundial, and four bells, and 284 bodies buried in the churchyard.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it "with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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There was a telephone number to ring if one had graves in the churchyard.
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It was never a formal or tidy place, the very opposite of our municipal cemeteries and more like an unkempt churchyard.
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From its famous open pulpit in the old hospital churchyard many an inflammatory sermon had been preached.
THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
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In many rural areas the tree was deemed sacred and thus is widely planted in churchyards.
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Bo had a flexuous and finely-drawn figure not unreminiscent of many a vanished knight and dame, her remote progenitors, whose dust now mouldered in many churchyards.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892
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He said members have a plan that will allow churchyard burials to continue ‘for years to come’.
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His bulk filled the churchyard-field with robust life, broad and cheerful, dispelling the past like bright sunlight.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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Owen was buried in the churchyard at Newtown, and there is a statue of him in the town's memorial park.
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Communion at the altar-steps (and what more fit place for a mother's kiss?) went to the rocky knoll outside the churchyard wall, and watched the ship glide out between the yellow denes, and lessen slowly hour by hour into the boundless West, till her hull sank below the dim horizon, and her white sails faded away into the gray Atlantic mist, perhaps forever.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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Children have put the first days of the summer holidays to good use by recording details of gravestones in the churchyard.
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When the shadows dip behind a churchyard somewhere in England's shires, it would be no surprise to glimpse David Gower on his way to evensong with Sebastian Coe and Tim Henman.
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest Castile soap, whereof part remaineth with us. [
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815/1794.14 "The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.
The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.
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In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Incidents of petty vandalism are rising at the church, and there have been fights in the churchyard.
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There were no tools found in the churchyard so it is not yet clear how the hole was excavated and officers are not aware of any history of vandalism at St Martin's.
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The sexton had the task of digging the grave in the churchyard.
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My wife and I sat in the churchyard looking at the magnificent views from the little cemetery at the back.
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His early death encouraged the belief that debauchery and dissipation had been the death of him and he was so little regarded after his passing that his corpse was cast into a pauper's grave in Canongate churchyard.
