God's acre
Example Sentences
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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
And indeed everything seems to centre around God's acre, and the spire of the meeting-house points in the same direction as the stories themselves.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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
The manager asked me to consecrate this little plot of ground with a larger space added to it, so that they might have their own little God’s acre.
From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert
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)
