Sentence examples for cross burned from inspiring English sources

The mere suggestion is disturbing to me, a Jew from North Carolina who, as a boy, had a cross burned on his lawn.

It will be a sad day when the truck comes to take the small herds to their deaths, especially sad because each animal will await death tormented by a three-inch cross burned into her right cheek, as decreed by the mighty Department of Agriculture, to pre-vent her being bought by another milk producer.

Wickwire had brought all sorts of people to Hopkins since he arrived in 1953 from Hugh Hefner to Cesar Chavez to the gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, which got a Ku Klux Klan cross burned on campus.

--Cokie Roberts had a cross burned on her yard!

I remembering hearing that the first Ethiopian family there had a cross burned in their lawn a couple years earlier.

There have been many times when painters touching up the house have wondered why there was this strange black cross burned into our doorways.

There have been cross burnings in recent months, including two crosses burned on the lawn of a white teenage girl because she invited black friends to her home.

Mr. Mann, who had crosses burned on his lawn, soon moved to Texas.

Twice Wolfman Jack had crosses burned outside his home by members of the Ku Klux Klan angered by the interracial activity, Mr. Laursen said.

typical liberal Democrats". He recalled that his grandfather, who lived in Louisiana, had crosses burned on his lawn because he supported integration.

Mrs. Eaton, a former teacher who by her count had helped register 4,000 people to vote, had seen crosses burned in her yard during her years as an activist.