burial-ground

However that may be, I have no doubt that the preceding visits to the burial-ground, and our long talk of the day before, with the unusual stir and bustle, had so alarmed the rats that, impelled, by their suspicious instincts, they fled a danger, the nature of which they could not anticipate, but which they felt to be none the less real and impending.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

It was originally a burial-ground in connection with the Madeleine church, but was afterward set apart to commemorate the sad fate of the elder Bourbons.

Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009

He took his way towards the solitary burial-ground, which lay about half a mile from the inn.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

The other mourners followed, but remained grouped together at the door of the vault, watching with anxiety the motions of Colonel Ashton and the stranger, who now appeared to be in close conference beneath the shade of a yew-tree, in the most remote part of the burial-ground.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

So they made for the burial-ground, thinking to lie the night there and, going round about the tombs, as Fate and Fortune would have it, saw the building wherein

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It was necessary he should see Mortsheugh, the sexton of the old burial-ground at Armitage, to arrange matters for the funeral of Alice; and, as the man dwelt near the place of her late residence, the Master, after a slight refreshment, walked towards the place where the body of

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

I replied to the Benedictine, that, as the rubbish amongst which he proposed to search was no part of the ordinary burial-ground, and as I was on the best terms with the sexton, I had little doubt that I could procure him the means of executing his pious purpose.

The Monastery 2008

Now this was an old wife, renowned for piety, who had a hovel of reeds in the burial-ground.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Of all kinds of country that could, by possibility, lie outside the gates of Rome, this is the aptest and fittest burial-ground for the Dead City.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Home Secretary (if there be such an officer) cannot too soon shut up the burial-ground of the old parish church.

Reprinted Pieces 2007