God's acre

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This God's acre, where is traced indelibly in these rows of glorious stones the symbol of the spirit of this great country, and the record of the nation's sacrifice in the cause of freedom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only here and there in the unfenced churchyard rose a low mound to indicate where, as it were, a chance seed had been dropped into "God's acre."

From Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker)

For it stood on a knoll, whence the ground sloped down to the Tochty, and it lay with God's acre round it in the shining of the sun.

From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Maclaren, Ian

He went up the road that led to another hillside, where, in the long, dreamy shadows, the dwellers in God's acre lay at peace.

From Flower of the Dusk by Reed, Myrtle

So in God’s acre here they meet    As they have met above, Tasting beneath their Saviour’s feet    The treasures of His love.

From Old Times at Otterbourne by Yonge, Charlotte Mary