God's acre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of God's acre
1610–20; translation of German Gottesacker
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This God's acre, where is traced indelibly in these rows of glorious stones the symbol of the spirit of this great country, and the record of the nation's sacrifice in the cause of freedom.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed through God's acre to the old yew-tree, beneath whose ample shade a grave was just beginning to show signs of the care that had been bestowed upon it.
From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Guy Newell Boothby
The manager asked me to consecrate this little plot of ground with a larger space added to it, so that they might have their own little God’s acre.
From Russian Life To-day by Right Rev. Herbert Bury
A mile farther, and just a few feet from the road, I passed a little "God's acre" that I knew so well.
From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger
For it stood on a knoll, whence the ground sloped down to the Tochty, and it lay with God's acre round it in the shining of the sun.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
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