churchyard Quotes

“In the churchyard there was seen a great stone wherein was an anvil. In the anvil was a sword and about it was written in letters of gold, ‘Whoso pulleth this sword from this stone and anvil is right wise king born of all England.“‎

“A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard.”

“Virginia stepped forward, and laid on it a large cross made of white and pink almond-blossoms. As she did so, the moon came out from behind a cloud, and flooded with its silent silver the little churchyard, and from the distant copse a nightingale began to sing.”