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#* {{quote-book|en|author=[Martin Farquhar Tupper]|authorlink=Martin Farquhar Tupper|title=Paterfamilias’s Diary of Everybody’s Tour: Belgium and the Rhine, Munich, Switzerland, Milan, Geneva and Paris|location=London|publisher=Thomas Hatchard,{{nb...|187, Piccadilly.}}|year=1856|page=288|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JeELAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA288|oclc=458415851|passage=[I]t [{{w|Père Lachaise Cemetery}}, Paris] is an overcrowded, shabby, dusty, and ill-kept cemetery: Kensall Green, though incipient, is far more picturesque; and several American '''necropoleis''' beat it hollow.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Mrs. [J. B.] Webb|chapter=I|title=Alypius of Tagaste: A Tale of the Early Church|location=London|publisher={{w|Religious Tract Society}};{{nb...|[...] 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly. Sold by the booksellers.}}|year=[1875?]|page=9|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pM0BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA9|oclc=60884003|passage=The great main street, which ran from the eastern extremity of the city [of Alexandria, Egypt] to the '''Necropolis''' at the western end, a distance of thirty stadia, was thronged already with eager citizens, mostly arrayed in holiday costume, and with an expression of expectation on their animated countenances.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|authoreditor=David Baptie, compiler and editor|entry=READ, WILLIAM DAVID|title=Musical Scotland Past and Present: Being a Dictionary of Scottish Musicians from about 1400 till the Present Time:{{nb...|To which is Added a Bibliography of Musical Publications Connected with Scotland from 1611}}|location=Paisley, Renfrewshire|publisher=J. and R. Parlane;{{nb...|Edinburgh and Glasgow: John Menzies and Co. London: Houlston and Sons}}|year=1894|oclc=1064784645|newversion=reprinted as|location2=Hildesheim, Lower Saxony; New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Georg Olms|year2=1972|page2=154|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeeuAfSxlp0C&pg=PA154|isbn2=978-3-487-04292-3|passage=READ, WILLIAM DAVID, [...] Sol-fa teacher, lecturer, and vocal composer. [...] He is interred in the Glasgow '''Necropolis''', where a handsome monument has been erected to his memory by his friends and pupils.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=C[harles] R[yle] Fay|authorlink=Charles Ryle Fay|chapter=Glasgow|title=Adam Smith and the Scotland of His Day|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=[[w:Cambridge University Press|University Press]]|year=1956|page=58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgE6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA58|oclc=1196843|passage=Even at {{w|Adam Smith}}'s death Glasgow was a city of less than 50,000, less, that is, than the Kirkcaldy of 1951. [...] The pattern of the old city was simple; let us follow it out. [...] Across the ravine is the '''necropolis''', a mountain of gravestones, with a monument of [[w:John Knox|[John] Knox]] in the centre.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Kevin Cook|chapter=Garden Suburb|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gTGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT28|title=[[w:Murder of Kitty Genovese|Kitty Genovese]]: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America|location=New York, N.Y.; London|publisher={{w|W. W. Norton & Company}}|year=2014|isbn=978-0-393-24291-1|passage=Queens's Calvary Cemetery was even bigger and busier than Green-Wood. Soon after the Catholic '''necropolis''' opened its gates in 1848, one account tallied "fifty burials a day, half of them poor Irish under seven years of age."}}