With Mr. Brown confined, to the lodge, and Mistress Jeanie in close attendance upon him there, the kirkyard was a lonely place for a sociable little dog; and ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
"kirkyard," and met the sexton, a man of venerable years, who took quite ❋ Unknown (1879)
The church is of basic design – the tiny, harled building has no belfry – and is surrounded by an old kirkyard. ❋ Unknown (2011)
How lang Steenie lay there, he could not tell; but when he came to himsell, he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight, Sir ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some of my ancestors are buried in the kirkyard of Cawdor Kirk, shown in a picture that does not come from A Charmed Life. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He also states in his book that Merlin spent his latter years with his wife, Gwendoline, in a comfortable house in what is now Ardery Street in Partick, and that he was murdered in 618AD on his way to Dunipace in Stirlingshire and is buried in Drumelzier kirkyard in the Borders. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Over the low-arched gateway which led into the yard there was a carved stone, exhibiting some attempt at armorial bearings; and above the inner entrance hung, and had hung, for many years, the mouldering hatchment, which announced that umquhile Laurence Dumbie of Dumbiedikes had been gathered to his fathers in Newbattle kirkyard. ❋ Unknown (2007)
After traversing nearly the whole of that extensive district, from the Nick of Benncorie to the Fell of Barullion, he found him at last working on the Cameronian monuments, in the old kirkyard of ❋ Unknown (2004)
But his character, as well as the state of the country, will be best understood by giving the reader an account of the instructions which he issued to his daughter, a girl about eighteen, whom he was initiating in those cares which had been faithfully discharged by his wife, until about six months before our story commences, when the honest woman had been carried to the kirkyard. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They sat at a table at the very back of the cafe, the window next to them giving a view of the kirkyard, where a few winos were starting the day with a shared can of extra-strong lager. ❋ Rankin, Ian (2004)
Her father invariably spent that day alone in the library; and walked, at dusk, as far as Gimmerton kirkyard, where he would frequently prolong his stay beyond midnight. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It was dug on a green slope in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor; and peat mould almost buries it. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It seemed so dismal to go upstairs, with the wild snow blowing outside, and my thoughts continually reverting to the kirkyard and the new-made grave! ❋ Unknown (2002)
It will stand out-all the other stones in that kirkyard are crumbling away with age. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
And in my mind was the sight of a granite gravestone in a Scottish kirkyard, on a hill high above the moors and sea. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
I did neither, though, and merely turned onto my back, where I lay with my eyes shut, grimly counting sheep-who disobliged me by being Scottish sheep, cantering merrily through a kirkyard, leaping the gravestones with gay abandon. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
There were some outside the house which abutted the kirkyard wall. ❋ Rankin, Ian (1994)
In it were Cafferty's men, the two from the kirkyard plus weasel-face. ❋ Rankin, Ian (1994)
They walked round to the kirkyard gate and took the red gravel path around the perimeter of the church itself. ❋ Rankin, Ian (1994)
