How To Use Graveyard In A Sentence
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The main path in the graveyard across the road from the church will be replaced this week.
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He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
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It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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They took a cab out to the small chapel and graveyard amongst the marble quarries on the outskirts of town.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water.
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The northeast has become a managerial graveyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Lych” was the Old English word for corpse — hence the roofed-over lych gate outside most churches, for the temporary resting of the bier (and its bearers) on the way into the graveyard.
The Moor
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One of the ancillary reasons, Hall decided to visit Assam was because he wanted to see if he could find the fabled graveyard of elephants - the final resting place these behemoths head towards when they sense the end was near.
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From the top, we can see mosques, churches and synagogues and graveyard after graveyard.
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Tucked away in a graveyard slot in the middle of the week, Exposure punches way above its weight.
Times, Sunday Times
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We thought we'd committed the maxidress to the fashion graveyard, but it's back.
Times, Sunday Times
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The management and development of public cemeteries must not rely only on graveyard charges.
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Churches and graveyards suffered desecration and in some places destruction under subsequent regimes.
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Such guidelines should cover the definition of a graveyard, a land-efficient burial system, the burial techniques employed, computerization of administration and fostering of a partnership pattern.
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The graveyard would be just outside town.
Christianity Today
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Finds of Roman coins and pottery within the graveyard may indicate a similar relationship.
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Her body now rests in the graveyard.
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In due time it was "home-steaded" The chapel and graveyard were ultimately deeded back; and when the Landmarks Club took hold it was agreed that the ruins "revert to their proper ownership, the church.
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California
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Can I remind both children and parents that graveyards and cemeteries are not playgrounds.
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Mowers and strimmers are available at the toolshed situated at the town park entrance to the old graveyard.
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Their twin USPs are, first, their cleverly constructed harmonies, which offset the affectlessness of Roxanne Clifford's voice, and, second, that they eschew the twee and embrace the gothic, be it suicide (Beachy Head), romance with the afterlife (Found Love in a Graveyard), or simply nameless dread (Bad Feeling).
Veronica Falls: Veronica Falls – review
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Some of the worst damage caused at the graveyard was to a vault belonging to Peter O'Connor.
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The wells in the old graveyard are being tidied up and cleaned for the day.
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A dozen burials found in the surrounding hypocaust in the nineteenth century would be consistent with a graveyard around a church*.
Archive 2010-02-01
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He decided to brave the city streets and walked over to the church graveyard.
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No wonder BBC3 is burning off four episodes in this graveyard slot.
The Sun
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In one part of the complex, crosses mark an area which has been designated as a graveyard.
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They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
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So the old parish churches, with their graveyards, are a precious heritage.
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Don't 1 wander from graveyard to 2 ) graveyard , reading endless 3 ) tombstones.
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It is understood the field was chosen as a graveyard because a church could be seen in the background.
The Sun
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A sign has been erected asking people to take away any rubbish from the graveyard and not to just dump it in the corner as was previously the situation.
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Here, its upbeat graveyard stomp, engulfed in Townsend's studied licks and organist Kyle Forester's perspicuous interludes recalls what the soundtrack to much-revered London niterie The Batcave must have sounded like back in 1982.
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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The hill in the vicinity of the graveyard has been the subject of much complaint.
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Thus Redclyffe really found less antiquity here, than in the graveyard which might almost be called his natal spot.
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
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Lots of fuzzed out guitars and songs like "Found Love In A Graveyard" that aren't exactly "California Dreaming.
Cliff Chenfeld: The Best Music of 2011
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Aiello says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.
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The remains of up to 20 bodies that were accidentally dug up by a mechanical digger working in a graveyard near Rathangan were reinterred at a special ecumenical service last week.
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This is what we call whistling through the graveyard.
David Horowitz Freedom Center
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However, I can't help but think this is what they call whistling past the graveyard.
Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video
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By the church, on slopes covered by soft green grass and a smattering of daises there is an old well-tended graveyard.
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It was quite common in Anglo-Saxon England for one church to act as a minster for a town community, handling all funerals and gathering all the dead into its graveyard.
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The places chosen for these unorthodox interments were often sites of ancient churches or graveyards, or of ruined abbeys etc.
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The first song has the refrain, ‘Dark is life, is death,’ and ends with the macabre image of an ape howling in a graveyard.
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The financial crisis has been a graveyard for much conventional economic wisdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The graveyard dates back nearly 200 years and due to the antiquity of the graves, many of them were not marked.
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‘I've even had treasure in my court and coins which were found when a graveyard was being dug up,’ he said.
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But give me a depressing chick flick in the graveyard slot starring C-list (I'm being kind) talent and I can't turn off the waterworks.
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She's from Harwich; fastish, too, an 'hez good luck; but Dad he'd find fish in a graveyard.
Captains Courageous
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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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It was a well-known fact that imperfect drainage, impure water, overcharged graveyards and want of ventilation, which was usual in places like this, carried the cholera germs.
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Finally Teddy gets evicted from the graveyard and still the Left thinks it is just about “messaging” and the dumb ass voters.
Matthew Yglesias » The Objective Political Pressure Game
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The rain sprinkled down, as the car pulled away from the graveyard, and turned onto the highway.
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* They go challenge a demon in hell to cure them of the curse but how can I explain how they found out they had the curse * Alezander already knows, Tyler and Jeremy don't* so far I came up with that they visit a graveyard and they find Alezander's grave when it really is Alezander's phantom's grave * that's part of the curse* I think that's kinda stupid so what are other suggestions? don't answer unless you can say something helpful.
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The prayers will be said in the graveyard at 8 pm and benediction in the church will follow.
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Full marks for honesty and full marks too for the age-old cliche about matchplay golf being the graveyard of expectations.
Rory McIlroy out of World Match Play after heavy defeat to Ben Crane
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Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas.
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Howling wind blew fiercely from all directions as thick clouds covered the sky, shrouding the graveyard in an almost complete darkness.
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As the graveyard slot suggests, this is strictly one for their diehard fans.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ability to survive such harsh conditions is remarkable but one particular graveyard in the hills suggests that people were small and there were many deaths in childhood.
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Pity about the graveyard time slot.
The Sun
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She didn't do much better there so was given the graveyard slot of transport.
The Sun
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You can't leave your grandson alone in the car in broad daylight for five minutes without spectral figures appearing and beckoning him into a graveyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was buried with full military honours in the graveyard of his local church.
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Liza Hempstock, a witch buried in potter’s field, shunned by most in the graveyard, but becoming an unusual acquaintance for Bod.
“The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman and Michael McKean (Harpercollins, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
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The skeletons of grand buildings haunt the graveyard that once was a bustling neighbourhood.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the east of the island there are two ruined cottages, a disused graveyard and the site of a cross and oratory plus several drystone walled fields once used for tillage.
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A population explosion of bristling wild boars sparked by a long, hot summer is driving the tuskers from their natural woodland habitats into the parks, gardens, graveyards and playgrounds of the new capital.
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The stage is constantly transformed, becoming family home, schoolroom, holy well, bog, farmland, graveyard and London street, without a single invasive scene change.
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Passed from the realm of the living, it resides in a cultural graveyard of tropes subject to periodic reanimation.
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My grandfather is buried at the famous Number 6 cemetery in Bulawayo whilst my own father is buried in a graveyard situated next to the Hwange Thermal Power Station.
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The graveyard was owned by the County Council who paid old Mr. Deegan a pittance to caretake it.
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I also spent hours in the church graveyard looking for owl pellets.
Times, Sunday Times
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League Two has become a graveyard for managers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The report said the sheer number of people busy digging the earth makes the three graveyards appear to be mines, but what is being dug up are human bones and skeletons of people laid to rest many years ago.
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But the graveyard was as empty and unthreatening as it had been when I arrived, and the tattered man was nowhere to be seen.
NIGHT SISTERS
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And here were bones: femurs, ulnae, sacra, ribs, scapulae; he was standing in "a veritable graveyard.
The Kaisho
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Unlike the two men, who tended to be early risers, she often worked the graveyard shift.
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They must sleep in complete darkness, so many vampires go to graveyards or simply sink into the ground, to rise again when the sun sets.
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His gravestone is located in front of a quintet of ghostly musicians who eternally perform in the attraction's memorable graveyard scene.
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Anne says her own partner's ashes were scattered in her village graveyard, just five minutes from where she lives.
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For those not of a vertiginous disposition, it is well worth a climb to the top of the round tower dominating the graveyard.
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I hurried to the graveyard at the edge of town, where I found Tortola's uncle shoveling damp earth over her coffin.
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English graveyards are timidly populated by anonymous, mossy tombstones, but over here they prefer a more dramatic approach.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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The coffin is manhandled back on the truck and heads off through the streets towards the cathedral graveyard, where, three hours later, the crowd has grown dense and patient.
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One little girl - one sinless, harmless, tearless little girl - found enough strength inside herself to rise to her feet and stumble out of the graveyard.
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An archeological worker from Qinghai Provincial Archeological Institute is cleaning lacquerworks discovered in a graveyard dating back to Eastern Han Period.
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Shows were being axed, and others ruthlessly dumped in graveyard slots after just a couple of weeks.
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Gardaí are investigating these unusual crimes, which target unwitting visitors to graveyards who leave their valuables in the cars.
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Many graveyards are becoming fenced in and locked up.
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The church is situated in the old graveyard and across the road from the present cemetery.
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Places with one general store, a church, a graveyard and little more.
In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
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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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He says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.
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I got to my feet and stalked into the graveyard, blasphemously passing over old graves and fake flower arrangements.
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A funeral service takes place in church, followed by a procession to the graveyard for burial and a collation at the home of the deceased or of a close relative.
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A police dog, which picked up the murderer's scent, followed the trail to the huge graveyard.
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Evidence of this history is visible in the graveyards, trail markers, arrowheads, and campsites dotted along the paths and portages.
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They are giving up efforts to dig out bodies and declaring entire communities mass graveyards after killer mudslides in Guatemala last Wednesday.
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Vandals desecrated a 17th century graveyard when they sprayed white and gold graffiti on two ancient gravestones.
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The graveyard especially is a good place to examine the strange and beautiful gravestones characteristic of old Basque burial grounds.
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Just off Cape Hatteras, NC, the graveyard of the Atlantic, they were hit by a freak storm.
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I served with some of those buried in the church graveyard.
The Sun
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There must be people in these old graveyards who came out on wagon trains.
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It is hoped that those with plots at the graveyard will do a bit of cleaning up before the Mass.
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Standing in a graveyard was an extremely disturbing experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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The warden and her volunteers had banished from the graveyard the regimental stripes of the lawn mower and the bleach lines of weed killers, encouraging instead a profusion of what nature writer Richard Mabey calls "the wild flowers of the English pastoral," such as primrose, lady's slipper and cowslip.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
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There was a very favourable response to the laying of the kerbs in the village, the enhancement of the graveyard, the opening of the Carn walk and wall building on the approach roads.
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He was found sitting upright against a wall in the abbey graveyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The graveyard was buried by undergrowth for two centuries - added to by locals using the site as an unofficial dump, and few islanders knew the role the cemetery played in Barbadian history.
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He rests in the graveyard of Wesleys Chapel on City Road in London, which he had formally opened in 1778.
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Since we seemed destined to end up in prison, a rehab clinic, or a local graveyard, I felt the need to continue striking blows at anything in the name of Crip.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption
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There's a fine distinction between a burial ground and a graveyard, the former needing a few years to grow into the other.
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Loaded, I made for St Mary's Church in the corner, with a graveyard, an Anglo-Saxon shaft, and bright with snowdrops and aconites.
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The skeletons of grand buildings haunt the graveyard that once was a bustling neighbourhood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Miss Hagar's pocket-hankercher and he guv me a bag made outen de skin ob a rattlesnake, an 'he put in it a rabbit's foot an' er sarpint's toof, an 'er squorerpin's tail wid a leetle dust outen de graveyard an' he sewed up de bag.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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The graveyard looks well after last Sunday's tidy-up - the final one for this year.
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A woman carrying her infant on her back waters flowers in a graveyard in Puebla, Mexico.
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The argument of Consumed is a barrage of small facts tenuously connected by undermotivated pet theories exhumed from the graveyard of 20th century social theory — Freud, Marcuse, Adorno,
In Search of Higher Pleasures
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Then he goes to the overgrown graveyard, begun in 1322 or thereabouts, of an English coastal town to search for her headstone!
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The original house was built on an ancient graveyard and its last owner is rumoured to have fled in terror at the ghostly goings on.
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This had once been the greatest port in the world(Sentencedict), now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.
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The money was raised last November, when all the members of the club took part in a sponsored graveyard tidy at St Michael's and All Angel's Church, Haworth.
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A blind discus thrower has to train in a graveyard, with his son clapping to tell him in which direction to throw.
Times, Sunday Times
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The American political graveyard is full of people whose careers came to an abrupt end after somebody said “Define ‘unbeatable.’”
Marist: Chuckie Schumer (D, NY) dropped seven points since September. | RedState
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This is a beautiful chance to vote for those who will be providing the microwaves in Kirk, chalking revolutionary slogans beside the graveyard, fighting against fee rises, not to mention a host of other beneficial activities.
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They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
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She cycled on, through the winding streets of the village to the graveyard beside the old stone church.
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The marble tombs had been smashed open and the bones and skulls lay scattered carelessly around the overgrown graveyard.
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The graveyard has historical value - not only does it tell you about who the people were who lived here but also their occupation, occupations that are long since gone such as quarrymen and shoemakers.
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The interior minister certainly wasn't thinking of creating a data graveyard.
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People imagined that the ghosts or spirits of the dead were to be encountered in the fields, the boreens and graveyards, once darkness falls.
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There is then an abrupt cut to a graveyard where two brothers meet, after a long separation, for the burial of their father.
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I love old graveyards, especially when the stones are weathered and covered in lichen or ivy.
PhotoHunter: In Memory « Mudpuddle
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We do get a little footage of him picking flowers outside his tract house, and meandering through a graveyard.
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There were no windows inside the carriage, so Primrose's leader had to sit in silence as the carriage rattled towards Graveyard.
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Workshops will be held to explore how graveyards can be turned into wildlife havens.
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He was buried beside my mother in the graveyard beside the church in the little town near our ranch.
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What pain one feels being forcedto the graveyardbefore death - I am suffering in that way.
Intercast Marriage Causing Challenges
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Railways, psychical research, and the combing of graveyards were other enthusiasms.
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The film starts in a graveyard, an apposite image for the decaying society which is the theme of the film.
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Behind the church, right at the back of the graveyard (a graveyard I used to have to walk past in the dark with a sadistic little sister who thought it funny to say boo) is a tiny ruin.
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This alien graveyard is captured in his film, Manufactured Landscapes (2006).
Spread ArtCulture: Interview with Edward Burtynsky: Photographing a Planet on the Edge
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The White House is both a hothouse and a graveyard for professional loyalty.
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This graveyard is an ancient site dating back to the eighth century at least as depicted by the burial of an unknown bishop buried in the eighth century.
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For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water.
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My mother rests beside my father in the family graveyard.
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I found a site next to an existing graveyard where we made a wildlife park and they were happy about this.
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Muslim martyrs of the Kashmiri separatist movement fill a graveyard in Srinagar, summer capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Some would rather hobble around than be carried to the graveyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when all was over, when we were trooping in decent silence from the graveyard gate and down the path to the settlement, a sudden inbreak of a different spirit startled and perhaps dismayed us.
In the South Seas
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Hollywood is the graveyard for all the uprooted cultural artifacts of a superannuated tradition.
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To go back further will require a few excursions as she delves into parish records, consults family histories and roots around in graveyards deciphering inscriptions on headstones for further clues.
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Behind the hall was a deserted graveyard overgrown with weeds.
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The town council closed part of the graveyard at the end of November when council workers found that a number of headstones and other monuments were unsafe.
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I've missed that slow plod along the Brendon Road to the new graveyard so much it's rather silly.
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The Scottish Tories have been very diligent sextons in the graveyard of their political hopes.
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The original house was built on an ancient graveyard and its last owner is rumoured to have fled in terror at the ghostly goings on.
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The rough coastline is the graveyard to numerous ships but also home to massive seal colonies and the awkwardly lovely Strandwolf
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There are several well dressed blocks of lime stone scattered about the graveyard, one of them being part of the cap of the ogee-headed window divided by a mullion.
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Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, today said his fighters will turn southern Lebanon into what he called a graveyard for Israeli troops.
CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2006
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Driving along a road as smooth as a ball-room floor, shaded by large trees, made picturesque by native houses built on pins in marshy land on either side, which tended to dampen our surprise at the great number of graveyards and the generous way in which they were filled, we drove to the town.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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Objections include the claim that a house so close to the graveyard would intrude on burials and the privacy of people visiting graves.
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So long as you don't have to look at the graveyard pallor of the rest of my body this is great.
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It cannot exorcise their horrific memories, but at least they can again view the place as a venue where Azzurri football can be celebrated, instead of regarding it only as their graveyard.
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He's in a Gotham City (the very name allusive of the word gothic, if not outright derived from it) graveyard, in fact, at the grave of Batman, the mainstream superhero of the DC universe most easily associated with horror--from the very concept of his character and its association with vampires (an association made literal in comics from Red Rain to Nosferatu), it's hardly an accident that he's the superhero who appeared in Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson's macabre early issues of Swamp Thing.
Archive 2009-08-02
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Among the items the young people will observe when they go along to the convent hall will be a haunted graveyard, wax museum, a freaky wedding and Frankenstein's lab.
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BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena's remains will be exhumed on Wednesday from a Bucharest graveyard in order to check their identity, their son-in-law Mircea Opran said.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The church and graveyard are now no more than ruins.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new graveyard garden will have extra shrubs planted with existing trees left undisturbed.
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The harbour bay added to this gloomy atmosphere, as it had become a naval graveyard.
A Channel of Peace
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This church was located at the back of the old graveyard and had direct access to the priests house.
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Nearby there is an old graveyard and it would appear that a church may have existed.
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There was even a suggestion that posh Ilkley's rats were actually water voles, more suited to the sylvan pages of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows than the haunted graveyards of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
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Leaving the church I crossed the graveyard to the large dilapidated house which sprawled beyond an uncut hedge.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The discovery of a sixth-century graveyard also led to a complaint of sacrilege from ultra-Orthodox Jews.
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The inscription on the oldest tombstone in the graveyard reads: Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Bryn, departed 1730.
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Live without meaning is not life, it is death. It is like being in the graveyard except that you still have a breath. RVM
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Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family's wishes.
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Can you imagine walking through a graveyard in the middle of the night and hearing the distant tinkle of a little bell?
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The financial crisis has been a graveyard for much conventional economic wisdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The English department is a living graveyard of all the dead and discredited ideologies that have been cast off by other departments.
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And nothing is scary here - not the glitter ghosts, not the fake cemetery spooks that make Ed Wood's graveyard look downright realistic, and definitely not the dopey looking undead who stumble drunkenly around.
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Yet with scant attention given to most of its members, it has also become something of a graveyard for small stocks.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this can be a graveyard for visitors with lofty ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides visiting a graveyard at night the art students went to chapels, a monastery and other buildings at the historic townsite.
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Hughes uses a lot of graveyard imagery, repeatedly emphasising the darkness of his subject matter.
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Spend a couple of hours in the Auld Kirk graveyard deciphering each gravestone, building up a picture of local people's lives.
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Screeching to a halt the two of them tromped into the graveyard.
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Sheltered in their beehive huts, ringed around a tiny church and graveyard, they survived for centuries in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable.
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There was a flood, and it did exhume a graveyard where Confederate and Union soldiers were intermixed.
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As the graveyard slot suggests, this is strictly one for their diehard fans.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I followed two of the wing-headed creatures of this alien land off the elevator, I had a sudden, stabbingly sharp mental image of the winged skull on the tombstone in King's Chapel graveyard.
Beacon Street Mourning
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Sage, most of it is, and cheatgrass, but they have a few cottonwoods in a dry creekbed, and a graveyard of abandoned tires Herb is trying to clear, and whole bevies of quail that sometimes sprint across the driveway in the early morning.
Memory Wall
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When the original dog died, he says, graveyard watchman James Brown and restaurateur John Traill simply procured another, perkier one, which might explain why Bobby reputedly lived for an impressive 16 years.
Historian Won't Let Scotland's Most Famous Dog Lie
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As she points out, the study of graveyards is all too often relegated to school projects and they are seen by historians unversed in the use of material culture as being of a lower order than documentary sources.
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He agreed with the coroner that on the balance of probability it was likely someone else had been in the graveyard when the stone fell on Adam.
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Identifying California with the future, their novels predict their own outdatedness; they become boats against the current, condemned to search for living tradition in the vaults and graveyards of the British past.
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I still adhere to what I said," answered Sibyl Dacy; "and besides, there is another use of a grave which I have often observed in old English graveyards, where the moss grows green, and embosses the letters of the gravestones; and also graves are very good for flower-beds.
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
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Not alone in the great junctures of the tragedy -- the encounters with the ghost, the parting with Ophelia, the climax of the play-scene, the slaughter of poor old Polonius in delirious mistake for the king, and the avouchment to Laertes in the graveyard -- was he brilliant and impetuous; but in almost everything that quality of temperament showed itself, and here, of course, it was in excess.
Shadows of the Stage
