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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.
