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Last month on Vast Public Indifference, Caitlin GD Hopkins shared her photographs of the rabbits of the Lexington, Massachusetts, burying-ground.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Last month on Vast Public Indifference, Caitlin GD Hopkins shared her photographs of the rabbits of the Lexington, Massachusetts, burying-ground.
Rabbit Rabbit 2008
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“If that child was to die,” this was his reflection as he turned his back and went his way, — “and it would almost serve the fellow right for making such a fool of himself, — I suppose we should have him sticking up a wreath and a waiter in that fantastic burying-ground.”
Somebody's Luggage 2007
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This noble burying-ground has some prettily diversified hill and dale scenery, and is six miles round.
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It was unpleasant, but not nearly so revolting to me as the vultures in the Parsee burying-ground.
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At Matching, amidst the ruins of the old Priory, there is a parish burying-ground, and there, in accordance with her own wish, almost within sight of her own bedroom-window, she was buried.
The Duke's Children 2004
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One division of the burying-ground consists of a particular compost, which in nine days consumes the dead bodies to the bones: in all probability, it is no other than common earth mixed with quick-lime.
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Between the cathedral and this building, about one hundred paces on one side, is the famous burying-ground, called Campo Santo, from its being covered with earth brought from Jerusalem.
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She had been punished for her sin by the death of him she loved, and she had settled in her mind to go into the convent at Soubiaca, where she should be able to wear out her life in prayer for those of her blood who still lived, as well as for the souls of those who lay in the little burying-ground on the banks of the far Warrego.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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Wide and neat paths were made in the burying-ground on its eastern and southern sides.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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