Lexicographical Neighbors of Likewake
Literary usage of Likewake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"If:—ii chist, his winding sheet, nails to it and making of it, with to his likewake
and to the officers for conveying the -51. 16s. ..."
2. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"Worm. Appendix has preserved two morsels which may be genuine. One would have
liked to have the likewake story and the verses there, for § 5 of this Book. ..."
3. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"Worm. Appendix has preserved two morsels which may be genuine. One would have
liked to have the likewake story and the verses there, for § 5 of this Book. ..."
4. The Decisions of the Court of Session: From Its First Institution to the by Scotland Court of Session, William Maxwell Morison (1811)
"... to the charge expended on the likewake and burial, as bread, wine, dead-linens,
coffin, grave-making, the bell-man, the poor, tiff. Yet in the title, ..."
5. Excursions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: Including Notices of the Public by Bremner, Robert (1840)
"likewake, watching a dead body. Lith, a joint of the members of the body. Loof,
palm of the hand. Loup, leap. Maer, more. Moist, most. Man, must. ..."
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