It has never been the custom in Manchester to cultivate God's acre.

There was the little God's acre along the road which we passed every day.

What spot so peculiarly suited for " God's acre" as that surrounding God's temple?

When our dear ones sleep in " God's acre" surrounded by others it is sad.

The country now's a grave, a sort of God's acre where only dead things are buried.

This ' God's acre' the architect and the governors have dedicated to Beauty, Art, and Nature.

Early morning at the Gottesacker, or God's acre, whence little Jimmy had started on his comfortable journey.

Feuerbach teaches that the memento mori of reason meets us everywhere in the spiritual God's acre of literature.

Beyond the mountains, somewhere in " God's acre," was the little sunken grave still enfolding a handful of sacred dust.

Four years had passed since the father had been carried to the God's acre and they had had to leave the parsonage.

Below lay the quiet village, at our feet " God's acre," with the train of mourners winding among the white stones.

A few steps brought us to the still God's acre, where the snow lay deep and cold upon high-mounded graves of many generations.

Do you not see, Mr. Denney, how far more refined it were to say ' God's acre,' or 'the marbled city of the dead'?

He went up the road that led to another hillside, where, in the long, dreamy shadows, the dwellers in God's acre lay at peace.

A mile farther, and just a few feet from the road, I passed a little " God's acre" that I knew so well.

He lies buried in the ground he donated as " God's acre," with only this inscription at his head: "John Swisshelm, aged 86."