grave-mounds

A half-moon rose late, to shine about the grove of tombs, the poplars and the cypresses like guardian spears, the ancient grave-mounds with their steles of lions and boars and chariot-fights, the poles of their moldering trophies leaning earthward.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

When he came to the churchyard, he tied his horse to the stile, and went through the grave-mounds to the tent wherein was the sword.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

On the summit of the hill in front of him was the chapel, its sagging roof silhouetted against the blue of the morning sky, the tombstones, irregular and rude, rising from the billowy sea of grave-mounds that lay around their base.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Western Europe, the shell-mounds, or kitchen-middens, upon the shores of the Baltic, the Swiss lake habitations, and the barrows, or grave-mounds, found in all parts of Europe, are supposed to be relics of a prehistoric

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

Upon learning that I had no means of curing him or of alleviating the pain, Shanks bellowed into my ear, loud enough to bring the dead out of the grave-mounds on the surrounding hill-sides, "Puh p'a teh, pub p'a teh"; then, raising his carrying-pole to the correct angle on the hump on his back, went merrily forward, warbling some squealing

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

She was happier than she had ever been -- happier even than when she had first worshiped the ancestral tablets with her lord and master, happier even than at the feast of the dead, when they laid their food offerings on the shaven grave-mounds.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Chinese cemeteries belong to the family or clan of the deceased, and are generally beautiful and peaceful places planted with trees and surrounded by artistic walls enclosing the grave-mounds and monumental tablets.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

"A mountain; a high jut of land, with two tops, side by side -- like two grave-mounds?"

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

Trewithen Cove had sheltered many a storm-driven ship within their memories, and there were grave-mounds in the churchyard on the cliff still unclaimed and unknown that had been built up by their hands.

The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

Creeks and rills of running water spring from the melting of the snows far up the mountain, run among the grave-mounds, and are then trained into the town.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895