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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

Have I been labouring under a serious misapprehension?

No. Not very serious ones, anyway. Builder's lime is (or should be)
completely unhydrated. (And is bad news for the skin.)

It was always presumed that because of its caustic nature it would
destroy bodies, and several murderers have come to grief because it in
fact tends to preserve the body.

Executed murderers were (unless this is UL) buried in a bed of quicklime
until it was discovered that it didn't have the intended effect. It is
still widely believed to get rid of bodies...

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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