Word: graveyard
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...early Lowell was more flamboyant. His verse was intricately allegorical and grandly rhetorical, as in the killing of the great white whale, that symbol of suffering, in The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket...
Some of the noblest bones of France lie in the sod of Père-Lachaise, the most stately cemetery in Paris. It was there, and not in a humble graveyard, that French Communists last week buried Maurice Thorez, for three decades their leader...
...captives were dead. One Red prisoner admitted that he knew the actual location of their graves and offered himself as a guide. Followed by two battalions, Colonel Call flew in a helicopter to the spot indicated by the prisoner. Sure enough, there was a neat graveyard with a white gate. The helicopter sat down on a paddy near the graves. Suddenly shots rang out. Both pilots were slightly wounded, but Call and Chaplain Aubrey Smith made it back to the chopper, and the chaplain fired several shots at the enemy. "I was carried away," he explained...
...eyes without moving your head were turned to those green and white fireworks in the sky. Up and down, black and light, for about a half hour; clinging to the rail. Life and art are supposed to imitate one another; I remember reading a story that ended in a graveyard with the phrase, "This is really living...
...Recently, the Rev. J. L. Head of St. Clements at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, found a sheep's heart stuck with 13 thorns on the grave of a woman believed to have been a witch. On All Souls' Eve, gravestones were overturned and hexes traced on the graveyard of the parish church in Appleton, Berkshire...