A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.
Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.
1 Caverns used by the natives as charnel - houses in the Isle of Pines.
2 Meridor was a part of the system that ran that charnel house.
3 The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst.
4 What they watch is a farce played out in a charnel house.
5 Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
6 The sullen guardians of these twelve charnel - houses knew nothing of individual prisoners.
7 His ghost stalked through the Empire, converting it into one vast charnel - house .
8 It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones.
9 The militia were pinned by gunshot, and the charnel golem reached them.
10 Cherry, Water, and the neighboring streets, are little better than charnel houses.
11 The flowers that adorn his poetry bloom over charnel - houses and the grave!
12 And then, as a wind from a charnel , was heard its voice.
13 Who exhumed you, patron saint of archaism, from the charnel - house of centuries?
14 Does not a ghastly air, a charnel breath, hover about us both?
15 A mound on the right near the charnel house still looked quite fresh.
16 The Lord's charnel house smithy was nothing more than reasonable caution these days.
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