"Lych gate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us for a day; no, sir, not for an hour. We're imperfect enough, all of us, we needn't be so bitter; and life is uncertain enough at its safest, we needn't waste its opportunities. Look at me! Here sit I, after a dozen battles and some of the worst climates in the world, and by yonder lych gate lies your mother, who didn't move five miles, I suppose, from your aunt's apron-strings,—dead in her teens; my golden-haired daughter, whom I ...
— Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories • Juliana Horatio Ewing |
