"Graveyard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... regard to the ha'nt. Old Nancy created considerable diversion with her account of the spirited roast chicken. It had changed materially since I heard it last. She was emphatic in her statement that "Marse Rad didn't have nuffen to do wif him. He was a sho' nuff ha'nt an' his gahments smelt o' de graveyard." ...
— The Four Pools Mystery • Jean Webster
... in light and air that perhaps came to you from the Gold Coast. And you saw men and camels like flies, and Cairo like a grey blur, and the Mokattam hills almost as a higher ridge of the sands. The mosque of Mohammed Ali was like a cup turned over. Far below slept the dead in that graveyard of the Sphinx, with its pale stones, its sand, its palm, its "Sycamores of the South," once worshipped and regarded as Hathor's living body. And beyond them on one side were the sleeping waters, with ...
— The Spell of Egypt • Robert Hichens
... it ain't for amusements as 'Arrygate lays itself hout; So, dear boy, it's for doses and douches; and there it scores freely, no doubt, Wy, there's thirty-two Springs in the Bog Field—a place like a graveyard gone wrong— Besides Starbeck, the Tewit, and others, all narsty, and most on ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 15, 1892 • Various
... written on the sky—all the old life of Ellisville had taken up its journey into a farther land, into another day. The cowman, the railroad man, and the gambling man had gone, leaving behind them the wide and well-perforated Cottage, the graveyard with its double street, the cattle chutes with ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough
... "Does he wish to die before his time of the fever, that he lets this graveyard mist and stench creep in upon him ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
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