Quotes About Graveyard

To the south, past the rocks, in the dunes, stood the carved posts of the graveyard. Bebba lay there, it was said, and other queens. Anglisc and British, including Cwenbarh. It was ill luck to linger by the dead, so they walked-they ran, they skipped, they laughed, their dresses kilted up like they were children, bags of bread and beer bouncing, noses streaming-north, to the island.

They were of overpowering fear, not the terror the sight of ghosts in a graveyard might arouse, but rather a fierce ancestral dread that could not be expressed in four or five words, something perhaps like encountering in the sacred grove of a Shinto shrine the white-clothed body of the god.

I loved a girl once,' said he. 'Vorshula was her name. She has been lying in the graveyard of Seidewinkel six months now...

Patrick Maguire, the old peasant, can neither be damned nor glorified:The graveyard in which he will lie will be just a deep-drilled potato-fieldWhere the seed gets no chance to come throughTo the fun of the sun.The tongue in his mouth is the root of a yew.

The gigantic being dropped deftly onto his sandaled toes in the graveyard, right next to the statue of Pipkin the church cat that had, for a brief and glorious six weeks, been the central feature of Pokemon interest in the little market town.

I'm throwing myself a birthday party next week," he said. "One of the many ways I'm whistling past the graveyard these days. I'll bet you're a grand whistler, aren't you? Please come." —