Citations:lichyard

Noun: "(literary) a graveyard"

 * 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 9781101160770, 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 9780553897852, 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 9780765356376, page 157:
 * Stands of trees teeming with barking animals would be quiet as lichyards when he passed them again.