Sentences with phrase «burned over district»
The whole area was called the «burned over district» because of the relentlessness of the revival preaching that went on there.
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Now it so happened that this section of New York was part of the «burned - over» revival district.
The repression in Midnapore was particularly severe, and included «house - burnings, seizures of property, insults, rapes, beatings, torture and illegal detention, all heaped on the rebels by ordinary police, by Intelligence Branch police forces and by army units stationed in camps all over the district after September 1942.»
Was the strong showing by Lancaster school board candidates dedicated to preserving the name of the new mascot, the Legends, a bucket of cold water thrown on the flames that have burned in the district over the Redskins?
A region of upstate New York came to be known as the «burned - over district» because so many movements, cults, evangelists, and enthusiasts had worked the area or emerged from it.
The 51 «stars» are presented as black and white targets burned with holes representing the number of deaths in mass murders over the past 25 years for each individual state and the District of Columbia.