lich-gate
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It is merely a farm labourer, "said Cleek, glancing through the open side of the lich-gate and down the road.
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- A churchyard gate with a porch or shed forming a chapel either combined with it or contiguous to it, in which in England and on the continent it was formerly customary, and is still usual in some places, for a bier to stand during the reading of the introductory part of the service, before it is borne inside; a corpsegate. It is very commonly nothing more than a simple shed under which is the gate. Also spelled, archaically, lychgate. Yet to the lychgate, where his chariot stood, Strode from the porch. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field.
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It is merely a farm labourer, "said Cleek, glancing through the open side of the lich-gate and down the road.
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces -
So then, if no other case intervenes, and you really _can_ grant me this great favour, will you be in the neighbourhood of the lich-gate of Lyntonhurst Old Church at nine o'clock in the morning of Thursday, you will win the everlasting gratitude of, Your sincere friend -- AILSA LORNE. "
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces -
By five, he had found a pool cupped in the beech woods with mallows and marsh marigolds and a screen of green things all round it and a tent of blue sky over the sun-touched tree tops; and had stripped and splashed into it and set all the birds to flight with the harsher song of human things; by seven he was back at the Three Desires; by eight he had shaved and changed and breakfasted and was out again in the fields and the leafy lanes, and by nine he was at the lich-gate of the church.
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces -
"And no mortal man can if you cannot -- I've faith enough in you for that," she began, then stopped short and sucked in her breath, and crept back to the extreme end of the lich-gate and stood shaking and very pale.
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces -
However, he kept his curiosity in check and his tongue behind his teeth until they were on the other side of the lich-gate and in the road leading to the Three Desires.
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
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