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Definition of Kirkyards
1. kirkyard [n] - See also: kirkyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirkyards
Literary usage of Kirkyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Upper Annandale: Its History and Traditions by Agnes Marchbank (1901)
"OLD kirkyards IN UPPER ANNANDALE. THE old churches in Upper Annandale were never
very finely built. At a late period some of them were thatched with heather ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1905)
"... some seventeenth ami eighteenth century tombstones in ¡Scottish kirkyards,
... more interesting examples in the kirkyards for the whole country between ..."
3. Sketch of the History of the High Constables of Edinburgh: With Notes on the by James David Marwick (1865)
"... the times reached, that in the same year we find an a<ft of parliament
passed (1592, c. 12) for the punishment of slaughter within kirks and kirkyards, ..."
4. Maine Pioneer Settlements by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1909)
"So far as the outward aspect is to be entertained, kirkyards are like old wine,
to be mellowed by long years, and to be endeared by intimate acquaintance. ..."
5. The Sokoki Trail by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1907)
"So far as the outward aspect is to be entertained, kirkyards are like old wine,
to be mellowed by long years, and to be endeared by intimate acquaintance. ..."
6. The Vernacular Inscriptions of the Ancient Kingdom of Alban by Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1896)
"It may be asked, why moei of these stones are found in kirkyards or in the ruins
of old kirks, if they are not sepulchral. ..."
7. Publications by Dorset Record Society, Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission, Ohio Historical Society (1896)
"... would have carried the dead bodies privately in the night time to the kirkyards
to bury them. Hereby the Glenmoriston people, having suffered much both ..."
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