lime pit
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One of the best stories, “Good Monks,” makes use of a local landmark: an abandoned lime pit — desolate, lurid, ruined — known as the “Lost Planet.”
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2018
"I see the lime pit has been filled in."
From Time Magazine Archive
He says there’s many a young man that was hanged and now moldering in a lime pit that would be glad to rise up and dance the Irish dance.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Ebed-melech hastened to the king and spoke: "Know, if Jeremiah perishes in the lime pit, Jerusalem will surely be captured."
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Radin, Paul
Perhaps in a stone quarry; or lime pit.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas
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