Great Expectations vocabulary

Bertram had just been speaking to her, as they sat on the dry sand, of the buried chieftain whose bones still lay hid under that grass-grown barrow, and of the slaughtered wives whose bodies slept beside him, massacred in cold blood to accompany their dead lord to the world of shadows.

Grant Allen. The British Barbarians.

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He has been excavating a barrow at Long Down, and has got a prehistoric skull which fills him with great joy.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

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I walked. The cornfields, bathed in the morning sunshine, were bright green. It was a flat, cheerful country, and in the distance there were the distinct outlines of the station, of ancient barrows, and far-away homesteads. . . . How nice it was out there in the open!

Anton Chekhov. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories