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
The other found a narrow bed Within God's acre, peaceful, lone; The throng cared not that he was dead, A man uncultured and unknown.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean
The Sun-land behind the hillocks of the God's acre, behind the pest-cloud of Death, is covered by a complete, an impenetrable darkness of twelve inches, or of as many holy nights.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
The old doctor used to say it was God’s acre for the living; the old doctor would have his joke.
From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
Feuerbach teaches that the memento mori of reason meets us everywhere in the spiritual God's acre of literature.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
