burial-grounds

Some of them are close to the worst burial-grounds in London.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

In the form of a large bird uttering a harsh cry, it is believed to haunt forests and burial-grounds and to afflict children.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The new wall comprises an area almost double the space occupied by habitations, leaving between it and the latter, large open squares, which are either used as burial-grounds, encamping-places for caravans, for the exercising of troops, or are abandoned as waste ground.

Travels in Arabia 2003

On the other hand, in fixing on a spot for encampment, it is due to the soldier to avoid all boggy places, and all places where the air is stagnant from inclosure by woods, or near burial-grounds, or where the soil is unfavorable to drainage.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

For the poor there were public burial-grounds, called _puticuli, a puteis_, from the trenches ready dug to receive bodies.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

If such traffic be base, what shall we say of some priests of Nicaragua, who renovate their burial-grounds by exhuming the bones of the dead, with the earth that surrounds them, and selling the mass to the manufacturers of nitre?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

We no longer inter our dead in churchyards or burial-grounds within the limits of cities.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

Its language is 'sorrow,' and it is often seen in burial-grounds and in mourning-pictures.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

We had three miles to bicycle out, and part of the way over a fearful stone road through nauseous burial-grounds, but once there, a round or two in cool, fresh air, amongst the hills and pines, overlooking both sea and river, amply repaid one for the toilsome journey.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

While penning these pages, my mind has often wandered over ancient burial-grounds where pastor and people sleep side by side.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various