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Synonyms for cemetery

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Synonyms for cemetery

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Jansenius took this as an insult to his daughter's memory, and, as the tomb was much smaller than many which had been erected in the cemetery by families to whom the Janseniuses claimed superiority, cited it as an example of the widower's meanness.
Then he added: "Our peaceful cemetery is there, some hundred feet below the surface of the waves."
It was icy underground in the cemetery at Montparnasse among all those white tombstones.
"Will it be intrusive if I ask you to accompany me to the cemetery? I should like to bid him farewell, as it were."
yes, yes, you do not forget her!" This was an allusion to the cemetery where she had been expressly forbidden to go
When Madame Aubain was able to visit the cemetery she felt very much relieved and consoled.
He says he picked his own leg up and took it away and buried it in the cemetery. He swore he had a stone put up over it with the inscription: 'Here lies the leg of Collegiate Secretary Lebedeff,' and on the other side, 'Rest, beloved ashes, till the morn of joy,' and that he has a service read over it every year (which is simply sacrilege), and goes to Moscow once a year on purpose.
When I showed him the ridiculousness of all this, he said, 'Well, if you were one of Napoleon's pages in 1812, you might let me bury my leg in the Moscow cemetery.'
Katerina Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to run into the cemetery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite sober.
Raskolnikov came in almost at the moment of their return from the cemetery. Katerina Ivanovna was greatly delighted to see him, in the first place, because he was the one "educated visitor, and, as everyone knew, was in two years to take a professorship in the university," and secondly because he immediately and respectfully apologised for having been unable to be at the funeral.
A second town hall program featuring Lincoln on Monday will take place at Luper Cemetery, where many pioneer family members relating to the Lost Wagon Train of 1853 rest.
By the late eighteenth century, the cemetery for the city, St.
Last month, the Hebrew Cemetery was vandalized, and 19 headstones were toppled.
JASON: We have the ashes of people interred in the cemetery who wished to be laid to rest with their pets but human cemeteries would not allow pets ashes to be interred with them.
Who do the tyre tracks belong to is a mystery given that the cemetery is currently in use, could it be the company tasked with keeping the cemetery clean or City of Windhoek officials who occasionally inspect the cemetery or even grave diggers and undertakers or possibly some deranged person?, Because surely you will not be of a sound mind if you can drive over the grave of someone.