God's acre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of God's acre
1610–20; translation of German Gottesacker
Example Sentences
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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
Feuerbach teaches that the memento mori of reason meets us everywhere in the spiritual God's acre of literature.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
He went up the road that led to another hillside, where, in the long, dreamy shadows, the dwellers in God's acre lay at peace.
From Flower of the Dusk by Reed, Myrtle
God's acre was silent, but for the rustling of the autumn leaves of the weeping willows.
From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm
The wind from the sea was blowing fresh and free over the village, and beyond it to the little churchyard, the God's acre of Northbourne.
From The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by Manwell, M. B.
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