"Graveyard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of all men that luck of two widely different kinds resides in the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit. There is bad luck in it for the rabbit itself, seeing that the circumstance of its having a left hind foot, to begin with, renders life for that rabbit more perilous even than is the life of a commonplace rabbit. But there ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... attested by the town clerk. Includes also graveyard inscriptions and extracts from Hartford, ...
— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.
... elder, "we brought back but our bare lives. We were wrecked on the Gascons' Graveyard, where our sole company for three months was the bleached bones of ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
... the Graveyard Rag had been summoned in haste. He was in charge of the Clinic—taking out the Grammar ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade
... the old huntsman, the two Martineaus, and Manette's husband. We went down by the road I had so joyously ascended the day I first returned to her. We crossed the valley of the Indre to the little cemetery of Sache—a poor village graveyard, placed behind the church on the slope of the hill, where with true humility she had asked to be buried beneath a simple cross of black wood, "like a poor country-woman," she said. When I saw, from ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac
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