When I was a boy I heard strange tales of the Lych Way--and of funerals being seen passing over it of moonlight nights.
The Lych Way may be traced from Conies Down Tor to Whitabarrow; thence it strikes for Hill Bridge, and so across the spur of Black Down to Lydford church.
The Lych Way is still much used for bringing in turf, and for the driving out and back of cattle.
It has been thought to be distinguished on Mis Tor, and striking for Cox Tor, but I mistrust this portion, and am inclined to think that the old Lych Way is its continuation from Lidaford Tor, where it disappears.
Then I knew that by going due north we must strike the Lych Way, the track by which corpses were formerly carried from the centre and east side of the moor for interment at Lydford.
Ask anybody you please; every one knows that Samsón Sílych is the richest sort of merchant.
But here's the little business I want to put up to you now: did Samsón Sílych promise you much for fixing up this scheme?
But in addition to all that, as Samsón Sílych has mortgaged his house and shops to me, I can frighten him with the mortgage.
You see Samsón Sílych has come, and seems to be tipsy.
Samsón Sílych is a very rich merchant, and has hatched up this whole business now just to kill time, so to speak.
I see I'll have to ask Samsón Sílych for a couple of fivers for you.
Samsón Sílych and I came to town, and we brought along the list as was proper.
You see I told him that Samsón Sílych is rolling in money.
Knowing as I do the disposition of Samsón Sílych to be what it is, that may very easily happen.
But how do you know how much money Samsón Sílych has; you haven't counted it, have you?
You know yourself what a fellow Samsón Sílych is; you see he'll pull my cap over my ears before you know it.
What is this story we hear of you--that no girl may even go to church without paying 'Tom Tufton's toll' at the lych gate?
There are also some well-preserved monuments and brasses in the nave and chancel, and in the churchyard, entered by an ancient lych gate, with a tiled roof, are some interesting old tombs.
The Kyrkegrim sits on the Lych Gate and overlooks them.
Lyúba, Lisa, Mitrofán Ermílych and the young Priest are all stirred by the music.
To Styópa] You wish to maintain the present system, while Mitrofán Ermílych wants to establish a new one.
As the King jumped down from his horse before the lych gate, and held out his strong hand to help the brides from off their milk-white mares, the whole place became alive with excitement and rapture.
They came to the lych gate, and the crowd jostled itself in its admiration.
The newly banded guard of Royal bowmen, gay in their scarlet and white livery, were formed up in two straight lines from the church door to the lych gate.
The little old gingerbread woman of the lych gate has disappeared; I half suspect her of crawling temporarily into one of the graves to keep warm.
Mary turned towards the square, on either side of which stood the old timbered houses by the lych gate, and asked a man she knew, if the horsemen who were to tilt in the field were to pass that way.
There is time yet ere sunset; let me, I pray you, go down to thelych gate with the wheaten cake for Goody Salter.
The rumble of a cart in the distance sounded like the mutter and mumble of a discontented spirit; and as Lucy passed through the square formed by the old timbered houses by the lych gate, no one was about.
The term lych gate is the old name given to a churchyard gate with a porch or covering, under which a bier may be rested while the introductory portion of the Burial Service is being read.
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