burial-ground

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Examples of burial ground

  • Once a year the living held feasts in the burial ground, and invited the ghosts to share in the repast. 

  • The burial ground contains sixteen graves, which will give the annual percentage of mortality. 

  • The church is built on a lofty promontory, in the middle of a very large burial ground. 

  • They had no burial ground in the settlement, and he was laid to rest several miles from his home. 

  • To preserve the body from the wolves it was placed upon a scaffold, and then later carried to the borders of a lake, on the border of which was the burial ground of the family. 

  • A related factor in selecting a fresh site had to do with the burial ground in the old homestead.

  • They prevented any person who looked poor from entering the burial ground.

  • I understand that a parish may have its burial ground in another parish.

  • Another time we were discussing for ever so long whether a disused burial ground might be used as a tramway shelter.

  • The grievance on that ground would be intensified ten-fold if the thing applied to the parish churchyard or the burial ground.

  • People concerned in developing a burial ground should be prepared to safeguard the interests and the feelings of the relatives of those buried.

  • No graveyard or burial ground belonging to any other denomination is to be taken away.

  • They built a chapel and arranged their burial ground.

  • It is very objectionable that religious bodies should have a right in these schemes to claim a site for a burial ground.

  • A burial ground can be put on a hillside but not an aerodrome.

  • The burial ground is held both for the burgh ratepayers and the landward ratepayers.

  • The question is whether in any case the disused burial ground was regarded as a source of profit.

  • It has on its doorstep the mass animal burial ground, where 500,000 animals are buried.

  • What was a fashionable burial ground in 1837 and in subsequent years is no longer fashionable.

  • That concerns a privately owned cemetery which had not been used as a burial ground since 1854.

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