lime-pit

The eldest believed he would be quite safe if he crept into a lime-pit, but she saw him from the first window, made him come out, and had his head cut off.

Household Tales 2003

He maintained I would have protested, and refused to be searched -- he was quite right, of course, but most of the other pious hypocrites disagreed with him, and the general feeling was that I was a fraud and a dangerous maniac who would be well served if I finished up in the prison lime-pit.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

He maintained I would have protested, and refused to be searched -- he was quite right, of course, but most of the other pious hypocrites disagreed with him, and the general feeling was that I was a fraud and a dangerous maniac who would be well served if I finished up in the prison lime-pit.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

In two days we completed a lime-pit of proper dimensions.

The Island Home Richard Archer

Morton, Browne, and myself to set about digging a "lime-pit" in the gully beside Castle-hill, while he took Eiulo and Johnny with him in the boat, to go in search of a quantity of the sponge-shaped coral, which, he said, was the best adapted to his purpose.

The Island Home Richard Archer

A finer sort of parchment than the former, but prepared in the same manner, except that it is not passed through the lime-pit.

A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Anonymous

Cornwall ... one Good Friday, he tumbled into a lime-pit.

Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912

Eight hundred and ninety lay buried out on the dreary tongue of land between the lime-pit and the fog-bound, ice-encumbered sea.

The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 William Charles Henry Wood 1905

Miss Betsy Barker's Alderney; therefore great was the sympathy and regret when, in an unguarded moment, the poor cow tumbled into a lime-pit.

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

The old Betsy was agone, and the house was nigh failed to pieces, and I've a-heard since that she was found drowned in a lime-pit some years back.

The Drummer's Coat 1896