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 law allowed to every corporation its religiosus locus, its God's acre, property seldom confiscated even in the worst hours of the great persecutions.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

And a calm lay over the whole in the pale midday autumn light as though it were God's acre.

From The Son of His Mother by Viebig, Clara

There was the little God's acre along the road which we passed every day.

From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)

Yet its very name is poetical, Savernake, i.e., savernesacre—like the God's acre of Longfellow.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir