Citations:lichyard

English citations of lichyard

Noun: "(literary) a graveyard"

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• 1893 — Anne Reeve Aldrich, "A Ballad of Slumber", in Nadine and Other Poems, page 20:

  The last sleep that my love slept

  Shall last till Judgment Day,

  In corner of the lichyard close,

  'Neath drooping boughs of May.

• 1903 — N. S. Shaler, The Passing of the Queen, Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1903), page 70:

  For what the dear Lord gives. Send, England's

  Queen,

  That sorry dame who for these weary years

  Hath starved our Hatfield what thou hast of woes,

  And frolic with us to the lichyard gate

  And merrier beyond.

• 1988 — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair, DAW Books (2005), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Past the city walls Simon could make out the dim, snow-smoothed outlines of the lich-yard — the old pagan cemetery, a place of ill repute.

• 1999 — George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam Spectra (2000), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Mikken lay buried in the lichyard, and the new smith was capable of little more than nails and horseshoes.

• 2008 — Jay Lake, Escapement, Tor Books (2009), →ISBN, page 157:

  Stands of trees teeming with barking animals would be quiet as lichyards when he passed them again.