burialground

The procession made its way to the last Egyptian burialground in Avaris, where the ancestors who had lived there before the invasion were buried.

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

The first sound that came after the heavenly peace rustled faintly like a passing breath of air over the grass of the burialground.

The Woman in White 1860

I turned aside, and there below me in the glen was the lone some grey church, the Porch where I had waited for the coming of the woman in white, the hills encircling the quiet burialground, the brook bubbling cold over its stony bed.

The Woman in White 1860

She joined her companion again, and they left the burialground.

The Woman in White 1860

I was passing one day in the market, when I found that a robber had broken into the shop of a shroff, a changer of monies, and thence taken a casket, wherewith he had made off to the burialground.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

&c.: when they reached the burialground, they killed it, and threw its flesh to the vultures and the dogs.

Travels in Arabia 2003

[p. 419] plague had reached its height at Yembo, the Arab inhabitants led in procession through the town a she-camel, thickly covered with all sorts of ornaments, feathers, bells, &c. &c.: when they reached the burialground, they killed it, and threw its flesh to the vultures and the dogs.

Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800