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Meanings of charnel in anglès

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A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.

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Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.

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Examples for "charnel house"
1
Meridor was a part of the system that ran that charnel house.
Long time coming: a novel
2
What they watch is a farce played out in a charnel house.
The new yorker
3
Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
The Day of Wrath
4
It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
5
A mound on the right near the charnel house still looked quite fresh.
The hangman's daughter
Usage of charnel in anglès
1
Caverns used by the natives as charnel-houses in the Isle of Pines.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 ...
2
Meridor was a part of the system that ran that charnel house.
Long time coming: a novel
3
The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst.
The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
4
What they watch is a farce played out in a charnel house.
The new yorker
5
Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
The Day of Wrath
6
The sullen guardians of these twelve charnel-houses knew nothing of individual prisoners.
I Will Repay
7
His ghost stalked through the Empire, converting it into one vast charnel-house.
Rabbi and Priest: A Story
8
It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
9
The militia were pinned by gunshot, and the charnel golem reached them.
Iron Council
10
Cherry, Water, and the neighboring streets, are little better than charnel houses.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
11
The flowers that adorn his poetry bloom over charnel-houses and the grave!
Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Instituti...
12
And then, as a wind from a charnel, was heard its voice.
Zanoni
13
Who exhumed you, patron saint of archaism, from the charnel-house of centuries?
Beulah
14
Does not a ghastly air, a charnel breath, hover about us both?
Eugene Aram — Volume 03
15
A mound on the right near the charnel house still looked quite fresh.
The hangman's daughter
16
The Lord's charnel house smithy was nothing more than reasonable caution these days.
Forge of Darkness
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Charnel across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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