| 单词 | charnel |
| 例句 | Set in Auschwitz-Birkenau, it manages to look at the camp's unimaginable charnel house horrors directly while still keeping them at the periphery of the frame. Cannes 2015: Jacques Audiard's 'Dheepan' a surprise Palme d'Or winner 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Picasso himself said that the work was affected by revelations of the real-life charnel houses of the holocaust. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z Oversensitive pagan intellectuals, for example, were really appalled by the early Christians' enthusiasm for bones and called their churches "charnel houses". The bare bones of belief 2010-07-29T18:00:00Z They turned a movie house, which people attend believing that all the mayhem will be on the screen, into a charnel house. Bane for Real: How the Aurora Killings Shattered Movie Fantasy 2012-07-22T19:49:58Z At Arnold H. Lieberman a large Tibetan coffer is painted with a hair-raising charnel ground scene. Art in Review: THE SPRING SHOW 2011-04-28T20:56:41Z As he did most famously in “The Passion of the Christ,” he once again plunges a man of peace into a charnel house of cruelty, testing the fortitude of protagonist and audience alike. Review: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Has Guts and Glory. But Where’s the Gun? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Its portrait of life as a charnel house may be half the story but in this case, it’s the only half. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “This place is like death,” observes a visitor to this floating charnel house, where rotting houses are slowly sinking into a “thick, viscous mud that sucked anything of weight into itself, like quicksand.” The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Trying to appeal to art house and charnel house in one compact package runs the risk of pleasing neither. Movie Review: ‘Blue Ruin’ Stars Macon Blair as a Man With a Vendetta 2014-04-24T22:43:10Z There’s a reason Buddhist monks meditate on charnel grounds, and why Cicero said the contemplation of death was the beginning of philosophy. What the Living Can Learn by Looking Death Straight in the Eye 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Connecting the Alps and the Adriatic, this hiking trail showcases the heritage of the Isonzo Front, including fortifications, military cemeteries and charnel houses, alongside the region’s stunning natural scenery. Once war-torn, Slovenia has become a green retreat 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In place of the giants of rug and ice in Game of Thrones, Westworld presents a make-believe charnel for the 1% and derives frisson by not being inconceivable. The Good, the Meh and the Ugly: are Westworld's villains firing blanks? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z More joyful than punitive, they are not meant to symbolize corporeal decomposition; rather, they are protective deities for yogis who confront their fear of death by meditating in charnel grounds and other scary sites. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z This is the future of capitalism and its hollow promise of prosperity on planet Earth, a charnel house of our own making. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z How and which stories about Black life rise to prominence in mainstream culture is a discussion that's been running for decades, but this charnel house of a year gave it new life. "Education" culminates Amazon's "Small Axe" film series, finding beauty in the necessary struggle 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Television is a veritable charnel house containing the bones of characters who died unnecessary or stupid deaths. Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Similar in its brutal spirit to Ian McKellen’s Brownshirt stage and film version of Richard III, the movie renounces the precision of most Shakespeare adaptations for charnel imagery and the occasional shaky-cam flourish. Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus: The Paths of Gory 2011-12-04T18:37:40Z An urban flâneur like the central character in Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd,” he immerses himself in Poe’s “The Premature Burial,” only to find himself placed in a coffin, “the world growing charnel, grim.” His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Even by the grisly standards of Elizabethan revenge tragedies, Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” is an outlandish charnel house. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z In the charnel dome is a decommissioned Teddy watching everything with blank eyes. Westworld recap: episode two – do androids dream of electric slaughter? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z That human shank was part of a colorful parade of body parts on display at this year’s Sundance, which included a veritable charnel house of severed limbs, decapitated heads and disemboweled guts. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z And from its pilot’s-eye view it presents a somewhat different World War I from the muddy, poison-gassed charnel house described in so many of the books published to commemorate the war’s 100th anniversary. Samuel Hynes Discusses His Book ‘The Unsubstantial Air’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Nixon and Kissinger expanded the war in Southeast Asia, leaving Laos a cratered wreck, Cambodia a charnel house, Americans at each other’s throats and Vietnam with an armistice that yielded neither peace nor honor. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The consignment of Vietnamese civilian war wounded to provincial hospitals that were little better than charnel houses has been a national scandal for the United States. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The land for the cemetery was originally leased from St Paul's Cathedral, which had used it as a dumping ground for bones being cleared from the charnel house and tiny burial ground around the church. Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status 2011-02-22T00:04:01Z Now it's become a charnel house after Hamas gunmen burst out of the Gaza Strip on Saturday and laid waste to the village. Insight: How an Israeli kibbutz 'paradise' turned into hell in Hamas attack 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Mrs King told journalists: "Care homes became charnel houses because there was no testing, there was insufficient PPE, but, most disastrously, it's because they discharged people from hospitals without testing them." Matt Hancock says UK's pandemic strategy was completely wrong 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Technological "advances" had made it possible for governments to turn World War I into a merciless charnel house on a vast scale. "Soldiers Don't Go Mad": A stunning account of poetry, paradox and the horrors of war 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z "Care homes became charnel houses because there was no testing, there was insufficient PPE, but, most disastrously, it's because they discharged people from hospitals without testing them." Matt Hancock criticises UK's 'body bag' approach to Covid 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z He described Buchenwald - one of the largest camps inside Germany - as a "charnel house of indescribable horrors". Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z “The Buchenwald concentration camp was a charnel house of indescribable horrors,” Ferencz wrote. Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazi war crimes, dies 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z The exigencies of mass death have left little other choice since Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake transformed the area into a charnel house of mangled bodies and crushed masonry. Turkey resorts to mass burials after massive earthquake 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Ukrainians who survive the charnel house are withered, their morale sapped by the constant explosions. Endless shelling and dead soldiers: A vicious artillery war spreads in Ukraine 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Scaled up to a necropolis, it could make the right impression, a modernist Hooverville of death in the shadow of our great national charnel house of inaction. Perspective | We need a national memorial to gun violence. Now. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Putin has turned Ukraine into a charnel house and his own Russia into a pariah state. Opinion | Biden’s Putin ad lib wasn’t a gaffe. He was right. 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Above their heads: a charnel house of endangered trees. Wildfires Are Putting Giant Sequoias at Existential Risk 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z He had an experience with seeing the most civilized places on earth, places like Italy and Germany, descend into becoming charnel houses. Author Rick Perlstein on the challenge ahead: "Biden knows that he is managing a dying regime" 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z I followed her out of the charnel house into a cold, heavy rain, spitting bile onto the pavement. Opinion | The Man I Saw Them Kill 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Trying to reach gold buried off the road, he had hit a cemetery for prisoners with his bulldozer and got stuck in the charnel for five days. Along Russia’s ‘Road of Bones,’ Relics of Suffering and Despair 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z For a while the laboratory smelled faintly of a mixture of charnel house and sewer. Opinion | The Zombie Ants 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z As Times critic Kenneth Turan put in his original review, the film is “both audacious and astonishing, a vision of a charnel house apocalypse that comes close to defying description.” The legacy of 'Natural Born Killers': Oliver Stone and Juliette Lewis on ultra-violence and media hysteria 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z One day it was a chicly decorated young professionals pad, abstract art on the wall and with a view of Bondi beach – but overnight it transformed into a charnel house. Bedbugs are tiny torturers that ruin lives – no wonder Bret Stephens was upset | Brigid Delaney 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In one charnel house, they cut a hole in the second floor and then led scores of blindfolded civilians upstairs, made them kneel by the edge and decapitated them with swords. A forgotten World War II horror in the Philippines is revealed in 'Rampage' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z President Woodrow Wilson — could conceive of no alternative but to try harder, even as the seat of Western civilization became a charnel house. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Syria remains a charnel house and the Islamic State a serious threat. Opinion | It’s time to focus — finally — on running the country 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z But the props master at the Globe most likely employed the simplest option: bribing someone for access to the charnel house of a nearby church, where skeletal remains were stored. Alas, poor Yorick! The shocking life of theatre's greatest skull 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He might have been happy to know that his name is now affixed to Death Valley’s Ice Age lake, which covered the charnel house in waters six hundred feet deep. Death Valley Is Alive 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The treaty would insure that Europe, a charnel house for the first half of the twentieth century, would in the second half become a place of guaranteed peace. The Failure of the Euro 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Even in the charnel house of the Syrian civil war, chemical attacks represent a special brand of horror for civilian victims. Assad's Regime Is Still Using Chemical Weapons in Syria 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z From such a sturdy, grounded character as Ms. Merkel the decision was puzzling—uncharacteristically romantic about people, how they live their lives, and history itself, which is more charnel house than settlement house. How Global Elites Forsake Their Countrymen 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z U.S. military interventions made the Middle East the transnational charnel house it is today. Bernie Sanders is not dead yet: Here’s how he recovers from Hillary’s charmed October 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z “Time collapses when I am standing alone in a charnel house,” he tells me. Fancy going to the empire of death on your next holiday? | Lindsey Fitzharris 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z In a literal flash the Earth would become a planetary charnel house, and the shattered biosphere would require millions of years to piece itself back together. Fact or Fiction?: The Explosive Death of Eta Carinae Will Cause a Mass Extinction 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In the course of his week at a Polish charnel house he encounters clownish American hippies, one angry German and even develops a crush on a nun. Our Favorite Books of 2014: Newsweek Staff Picks But that was Denver’s highlight of the game as Gillette Stadium once again proved to be a charnel house for those entering its gates. Tom Brady and New England Patriots Cruise Past Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z TD Garden, the building where Rivers initially struggled but then firmly cemented his status as one of the N.B.A.’s most respected coaches, is not some kind of charnel house in his memory. Now With Clippers, Rivers Returns to Boston as an Enemy, Though Not a Hated One 2013-12-12T02:15:09Z But, exquisite as is their scenery, the Sesses form a charnel house. 100 Years Ago: Tsetse Fly Breeds Ruin 2013-08-04T14:15:02.033Z I wanted to live without the paper-world, to shun its distortions, escape its death head, the charnel house of yesterday. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Then came the press of people, who, frantic with anxiety, had beaten back the police guard to look for loved ones in the charnel house. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The old nurse, after some time, had ventured from her hiding-place, and for four days had been living on the deck of the charnel ship when we boarded her. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z We are shut up as in a tomb, girt round With charnel scenes on every wall; Wherever echoes of town-traffic sound, Or human footsteps fall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 2012-03-09T03:00:20.130Z A charnel house, with various figures of Death, three in the back-ground dancing. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z I certainly believed it proceeded from the charnel house below. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Lights, patience and hard work brought about some semblance of system and at last word was given that the last body had been removed from the charnel house. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Never saw a charnel house myself," said the old lady, "even with the lid on. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z From his start here he's never let go—and there's the stench about him of a political charnel house. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Imprimis.—Sold the silver plate which was on the desk in the charnel, weighing five ounces, for twenty-five shillings. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z In some places, bodies have been placed in a lighted room, near the charnel house, there to remain, till the signs of corruption could no longer be mistaken. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I'd have called it a kind of a megrim myself, and, as I say, I certainly perceived a sort of charnel-'ouse smell in the room I'm in. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z "No," Vivian admitted, "But it's like uncovering a charnel house!" she shuddered. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Her weary head fell forward upon her friend’s shoulder, and she sobbed: “Oh, Constance, dear, the world to me is one black charnel house.” An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z The great charnel heap had 15,000 fresh corpses flung upon it without the French lines having yielded. Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War 2011-10-27T02:00:27.020Z Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, first sanctioned the use of churches, for charnel houses, in 758—though Augustine had previously forbidden the practice. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z There certainly was a peculiar odour in the James the Second room, and the adjective "charnel-'ouse" had not been misapplied. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Kelley then unlocked the door of the charnel, and brought out a pickaxe and mattock. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The insulted sovereign thus freed the people, for a time, from the artful stratagems and devices arising from the charnel house of oppression. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z When all the troops had passed, the country was filled with charnel houses, and there are charnel houses and charnel houses. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z The nauseating odour was everywhere perceptible; and this was not to be wondered at, for twenty yards from one of the fetish trees was a charnel place where thousands had perished. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z I looked over his shoulder, and had a glimpse of black feathers on the floor, and a waft of a decidedly "charnel-'ouse" nature. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z By the Doctor's directions, he, with some reluctance, assisted Kelley to raise the corpse, and convey it to the charnel. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The camp soon became a charnel house, for Congress failed to supply the necessary food and clothing, and sickness inevitably resulted. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z He must enter the charnel cave, and remove the body to some other hiding-place. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z How wonderfully, in these touches, do we feel love prevailing over horror and purging the apparition of all its charnel ghastliness. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But it was the bloodthirsty Mladic, soon headed to The Hague himself to stand trial, who oversaw the charnel house. The Making of a Monster 2011-05-29T14:00:00Z Humphrey Chetham, somewhat surprised by the question, replied, “At the north-west, near the charnel,” adding, “I shall pass within a short distance of the spot, and will point it out to you.” Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z I seemed to breathe the atmosphere of a charnel house. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z There's something looking down at us over the top of the charnel house. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Who does not recollect," said the Temps, "even though he had seen it but one moment, the square, no, the charnel of the Tour St. Jacques? History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Truly, the body is full of impurity and its end is the charnel house, for it is impermanent and destined to be dissolved into its elements. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z The world is one vast charnel house, its material being worked over and over again in endless cycle. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z I smelled the charnel house upon that rusted frame; corruption was in the cage which inclosed me and in the air that I breathed. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z That would be too much like writing Hamlet in a charnel house. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Days later, the provincial council headquarters here was a charnel house of smeared blood and burned flesh. Through Political Prism, Iraqis Grieve 2011-04-06T01:28:14Z Its end is death and its goal the charnel house. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z That cause know I. But its revelation, now rendered imperative, will be like unto tearing up with irreverent hands the mysterious secrets of the charnel house beneath our feet. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z There is not much of interest left in the church, but in one corner is a small, dark, stone-roofed charnel house, still heaped high with the whitened skulls of the monks who were entombed there. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z At its bottom a charnel heap, poisoning the air. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z From this charnel house let me to-night draw forth one of these. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z Saint Pierre, a smoky pestilential charnel, was only alive now through the lamentations of those who had come down from the hills for their dead. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z After the years he had spent in the charnel cell, no wonder every fibre in his body was trembling and throbbing to meet the force and passion of the sea-storm. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Now it is something much worse — a charnel house with tens of thousands of corpses in a capital city laid waste. 2010-01-23T21:57:00Z And thus he lay, for half an hour, insensible to the battle, which was now drawing nigh to the ditch, and now leaving it to its charnel solitude. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico On the other hand, in ignominious confusion, far down in this dark, dreary charnel house is tumbled all that now remains of the tyrants, the persecutors, the selfish men, under whom mankind have groaned. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z Hope was soon aloft, and down again; the ladder was shifted, the dead sentinels fastened to the ropes, and hoisted slowly out of their charnel house. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The charnel's dusky hue Is lovelier to thy view Than the clear cerulean blue Of the noon. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Now was the summons come she must obey, For Beauty pleaded from the charnel house, For violet nights and violent carouse To free her from the cerements of decay. Sonnets from the Patagonian When Faith's low doorway leads into the church, Light from austere saints mellows dusty gloom, Sad music echoes in the stony heavens, And this bleak pavement masks a charnel hell. A Man in the Open It may also be called the world's great charnel house, where are gathered coffins, dead men's bones, and all the uncleanness of the years that have fled. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z I vowed upon thy rosary brown, this string of antique beads, By charnel lichens overgrown, and dank among the weeds, This rosary brown which is thine own,—lost soul of buried nun! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II And the last scene is played in death’s red charnel house. Satan Absolved Her bones will soon bleach on the rude charnel pile, and her skull may perhaps one day, by the hands of some unscrupulous traveller, be conveyed to Doctor S. G. Morton of Philadelphia. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. Great piles of shot lay rusting, as not worth removal; among them conical shot, so recently, had this fatal charnel house been regarded as a fit location for British artillerymen. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Better meet death a hundred times in the ordinary way at the hand of enemies in the open, than remain here, shut up in a charnel house, with this awful black fiend. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Under the merciless glare of light, the valley was as he had first seen it—a nauseous charnel place of bogs and brambles and mudflats littered with yellowed bones. Pet Farm The odor of a charnel house immediately assailed the forester's nostrils. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium I walked on to the campo santo, for the purpose of carrying away two skulls which I had selected and laid aside on the charnel pile at the time of the funeral. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. In the Evening Walk he had originally written And bids her soldier come her wars to share Asleep on Minden’s charnel hill afar. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Another breeze brings faint odors of the charnel house from Bradley's. Old Plymouth Trails As he sat and talked to me, he smelt of the charnel house, methought. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) What a smell comes from that charnel room! The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium A child might have read their dismal story, and yet it was not until I touched that actual piece of mankind that the full horror of the charnel ocean burst upon my spirit. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI An erratum at the end directs us to correct the second verse, thus: Asleep on Bunker’s charnel hill afar. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The wind grew stronger, and the air was filled with the lethal, charnel odour of plague-stricken towns and uncovered cemeteries. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 And men said: The old America is dead; America is money mad; America is a charnel house of greed. In the Heart of a Fool The thought then occurred to me: 'Last night the abominable food that I carried to my family from Gregory's human charnel house kept them from dying in the agonies of starvation. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium Of course, these charnel prophets are not the only phantasms that "possess" furniture. Byways of Ghost-Land As charnel scarn parades in light— Unfathomed crafts rayed in wowed attire. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell Yes, I visited your charnel houses and your cemeteries. Carmen Ariza It glideth to the headstone bare, And signs it with a paraph wild, And hangs a wreath of bones to glare Upon the charnel death-defiled. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems "The city will be a charnel house when these bodies start to decompose." The End of Time When Morgan got back to their lodgings he had the sensation of entering the atmosphere of a charnel house. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Teem in the wind-strewn crest of thorns A phantom that a charnel urn Spewed from its lap and canceréd fold,— Trophies of grim Destiny's crypt! Betelguese A Trip Through Hell The second church stood near, deserted, gloomy, no longer a temple of God, but a charnel house of fear and black superstition. Carmen Ariza Behold within corruption's charnel vaults It sleeps this day. Legends of the Saxon Saints Tohomish himself would not have dared to repeat those names in the charnel hut, lest those whom he invoked should spring upon him and tear him to pieces. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. Simon realized that if he drew his scimitar, the room would be a charnel house in moments. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Embattled: built with battlements. minor canons: clergy of the cathedral who intone the services and look after the music. charnel: containing the bones of the dead. The History of London Though only a charnel house it is laid out with great care, in street, square, and alley, just like the abodes of men above. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The wrecks of faction, the remnants of the monarchy, and the corpses lying headless in the shadow of the guillotine, gave all semblance to the conception—France was a charnel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Every moment now the body of some poor victim is taken from the débris, and the town, or rather the remnants of it, is one vast charnel house. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin I do not know the play, or even what the title is, But safe to make success a charnel house recital is! McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. From the charnel house of the Viennese system a poison-laden atmosphere steals over us. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) He concludes a letter of appeal: Better be Where the unconquered Spartans still are free, In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage With endless contumely they brought him to the public charnel, where the body of Sabinus had been thrown among those of the vilest malefactors. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality There was a faint odor of decomposition and another day will cause the vicinity of the viaduct to suggest a charnel house to the olfactory senses. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The picture of man sacrificing himself in the cause of religion is easily matched by a Vesalius haunting the charnel houses of Europe, and risking the most loathsome diseases in the interests of scientific research. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative No scavenger shark, no carrion crab, ever chambered more grisly secrets in his digestive processes than this big charnel bird. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house. The Opal Serpent The nations fall, the faiths decay, The great philosophies go by— And life lies bare, some bitter day, A charnel that affronts the sky. Mr. Faust Who has made known to thee this secret passage into endless vaults covered with eternal darkness? to this black charnel house, where moulder the bones of earlier and countless victims? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Over everything lay the green wash of incandite, and the wind carried the smell of a charnel house. Victory It was the air of a charnel house. The Northern Iron This revelation of a woman's nature was sickening him; he wanted to make sure that the library door was shut close upon the malodorous charnel house of the passions. Flamsted quarries Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house. The Day of Wrath Let me know, therefore, fully the intent Of this thy dismal preparation— This talk fit for a charnel. Rookwood Mamma's voice is growing weaker and weaker; it is dying away now close by the wall of the charnel house. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy No one, whom I saw, exhibited any emotion at the strewn spectacles on every side, and the stories I had read of the stony-heartedness during the plague, were more than rivalled by these charnel realities. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War And all this, and much more, in that fearful charnel city, with death and suffering on every side. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands In these secret charnel houses were buried the bodies of the oppressed, while in the haughty tombs around and above them lay the bones of their oppressors. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Many are the rare specimens which I have picked from these charnel remnants of my spider net. My Studio Neighbors The place became a charnel house, and in the middle of the night the survivors fled forth, taking nothing with them except arms and ammunition and a heavy store of tinned foods. The Scarlet Plague Piled in all directions they lay, the whole vast floor was indeed a stupendous charnel house. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Some of these had been used as charnel houses, and had been filled with dead bodies. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem A Brahmin traversing this goodly market would regard it as a vast charnel, a loathsome receptacle of dead flesh on its way to putrescence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Webster's images have the smell of the charnel house about them. Brief History of English and American Literature So it was that Vesta found herself the sole living person in the palace that had become a charnel house. The Scarlet Plague By Monday the city reeked with the smell of a charnel house and pestilence was in the air. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Cherry, Water, and the neighboring streets, are little better than charnel houses. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City It thrusts the girls into a charnel house of sin, sickness, and death. The Making of Mary Our heart a charnel house has grown For our vast dead! The Red Conspiracy Now charnels rattle; scatter'd limbs, and all The various bones, obsequious to the call, Self moved, advance; the neck perhaps to meet The distant head; the distant head the feet. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The world is a charnel house of dead religions. Damn! A Book of Calumny Phantom, that by my bed dost beckoning glide, 8 Spectre of Death, to the damp charnel hie! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan Now charnels rattle; scatter'd limbs, and all The various bones, obsequious to the call, Self-mov'd, advance; the neck perhaps to meet The distant head; the distant legs the feet. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 The air Is changed to vapours such as the dead breathe In charnel pits! Early Reviews of English Poets At one moment the chamber appeared as red as blood, and in a twinkling it was dark as the charnel house. Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers The summit stopped being a battle field to become a charnel house. Fighting France The young man cools himself with a thought of the winding-sheet and the charnel, as the heated dancer cools himself on the balcony with the night-air. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The courts, the passages, and even the apartments were filled with heaps of dead bodies; they were so many charnel houses of infection. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 A charnel filled with festering corpses, snakes, and worms points the preacher's moral. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse He was another of those who suffered so uselessly, a mere half animal who had to do the rough work of the world, and then was dropped into the great charnel house of unmeaning death. Great Possessions However, in the shadow of this human charnel house, at the edge of this bloody sewer, some little French soldiers come and go, eat and sleep for months at a time. Fighting France My God! the place was a charnel house! a spot accursed! Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune Indians always removed their dead, yet seemingly this place was a perfect charnel house, heaped with slain. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War Out of that grim den of death, out of that floating lazar house, there came a few blooming maidens and stalwart youths, like fair flowers springing from the rankness of a charnel. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Thou, blindly gross, didst toy with clay, And in the ghastly gleam Of charnel gloom didst kiss decay; And many full moons waned away, And left thee in thy dream. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale On the evening after a frightful battle, they were all three in the charnel house where the dead bodies are brought. Fighting France So seizing old Moodie by the arm, he being beside her, she rushed out of this charnel house, and impatiently called to the others to join her in the church. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters The perfume of them sickened Anna, as the odor of a charnel house might have done. 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life Alas! how soon it was to be turned into a charnel house! From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa The places once occupied by glittering chandeliers were now shrouded with immense spider webs, in which a whole colony of spiders lived subsisting on the noisome vapors of this gloomy charnel like abode. The Home in the Valley Each of the two slopes, descending one to the Save and the town of Shabatz and the other to the Drina, is now nothing but a charnel house. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 It made this grewsome charnel vault a part of Heaven—the graves there of those murdered knaves made rests of roses for our heads; it made him spring the bolt and lock us in. Debris Selections from Poems These things her father, master of an ancient place, Pondered, and read of men in antique times Who wakened in the charnel from a trance. Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country He alone of the defenders had come alive out of that terrible charnel house, the Alamo. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad Those gloomy stairs, so dark, and damp, and cold, With odors as from bones and relics carnal, Deprived of rite, and consecrated mould, The chapel vault, or charnel. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood "It was a body taken from the charnel, and placed there by the demon," replied the monk. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest First the bottomless pit and then a charnel house. The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island When there is a lull in the pandemonium we have a glimpse, not of eternity, but precisely of 1890:— 'And he saw red roses drop apart, Each to disclose a charnel heart…. Aspects of Literature And again, with the very yielding of his spirit: My life was a black charnel. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series What care I, then, though my last sleep Be in the desert or the deep, No lamp nor taper, day and night, To give my charnel chargeable light? The Age of Shakespeare There is an unusual profusion in his vocabulary of such words as ghosts, shades, charnel, tomb, torture, agony, etc., and supernatural similes occur readily to his mind. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance And now I do remember, The old Egyptians at their banquets placed A charnel sight of dead men's skulls before them, With images of cold mortality, To temper their fierce joys when they grew rampant. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 Claudius knew what those knobs and the instructions portended in this adjunct to the charnel house. The Son of Clemenceau The fearful mysteries of the charnel house were unfolded in his labors—the loathsome banquet of the beetle and the worm.—I turn with shuddering even from the recollection of his works. Tales of a Traveller Heaven send that the Prince himself may one day look upon the vile secrets of this charnel house! In the Days of Chivalry Wert thou a churchyard ornament, to braid The charnel of putridity, and part The spot where what was mortal had been laid, With all thy native coldness in his heart? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829 Hush the thing up!" the knowing cynic cries, "Arm not our chuckling enemies at gaze With charnel dust to foul our brightest bays! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 22, 1890 The excavators in 1845 had a gruesome experience, for they discovered a charnel pit containing thirteen cart loads of bones of the fallen warriors at the battle of Lewes. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End Now we are but braggarts warm— But by our honest cause, we swear, ere they our land retake, Each town shall he a charnel tomb—each field a gory lake! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 476, February 12, 1831 Charlotte Bronté cannot tell why she is so unhappy, why she feels like a prisoner in the world,—why earth, our beautiful earth, is like a charnel house to her. A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858 To think of him sitting quietly in that charnel house, prospering in soul, growing sleek in thought, becoming stored with high ideas. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator Whether it was destined also to become a charnel house, a shambles, depended on the early coming of those other, unseen men toiling up that black ravine. Love under Fire It is like living in a charnel house where devils are at play flinging dead men's flesh at living men, with fiendish mockery. The Soul of the War I collected bones from charnel houses, and the dissecting room and the slaughter house furnished many of my materials. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Webster's images have the smell of the charnel house about them: She would not after the report keep fresh As long as flowers on graves. From Chaucer to Tennyson The charnel house is opened wide, And thither's borne with brief adieu, And slumbering eyes laid beside Eighteen hundred fifty-two. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland It is a charnel house, with dead lying everywhere. Love under Fire And now I do remember, The old Egyptians at their banquets placed A charnel sight of dead men's skulls before them, With images of cold mortality, To temper their fierce joys when they grew rampant. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays The lazar houses and the charnels have been ransacked for forms of grisly decay. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts But the spirit of the great Hohenzollern smelt from the first of the charnel. The Crimes of England For I thought that God would hear his prayer, And set the vessel free,— For a dreadful thing it was to lie Upon that charnel sea. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 The smoke grew thicker and thicker as they advanced; but regardless of this, they hurried to the secret door leading to the charnel. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Also, under the cloister of the church, by eighteen degrees at the right side, is the charnel of the Innocents, where their bones lie. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Perceval had made set the bodies of the dead knights in a charnel beside an old chapel in the forest, and the body of his uncle that had slain himself so evilly. The High History of the Holy Graal And at the last no solemn stole Shall on thy breast be laid; No mumbling priest shall speed thy soul, No charnel vault thee shade. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies A child might have read their dismal story, and yet it was not until I touched that actual piece of mankind that the full horror of the charnel ocean burst upon my spirit. Merry Men On reaching the charnel, they crossed it, and tried the door of the vault formerly occupied by the sexton. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Even a minute seems a year, Peopled with ghosts, that press and peer Into my face so charnel white, Lit by the devilish, dancing light. Rhymes of a Rolling Stone For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English. The Jungle A charnel wind moaned out a moaning—No; From the devouring heart of earth it blew. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 In every charnel breast Dead conscience rises slow: They, dumb before that awful guest, Turn, one by one, and go. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 This done, she hurried to the charnel, and softly opened the door of the crypt. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire For God's sake get me out of this charnel house! The Golden Calf His bones were black with many a crack, All black and bare, I ween; Jet-black and bare, save where with rust, Of mouldy damps and charnel crust, They were patched with purple and green. There & Back The heads are skull-like, and the stony feet Seem for the charnel house but only meet. Poems An erratum at the end directs us to correct the second verse, thus:— "Asleep on Bunker's charnel hill afar." Among My Books Second Series They found the verger in the charnel, and before quitting it, the doctor drew a small flask of canary from his pocket, and applied it to his lips. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire The charnel houses of iniquity must ever be the workshops of the Salvationist. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord "That cup we pledged, the charnel's choicest wine, "Hath bound thee—ay—body and soul all mine; "Bound thee by chains that, whether blest or curst "No matter now, not hell itself shall burst! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The little peaceful church became all at once a place of terror, a grisly charnel house of vanished hopes and lives. The Shadow of the East In the "Evening Walk" he had originally written "And bids her soldier come her wars to share Asleep on Minden's charnel hill afar." Among My Books Second Series It was evidently half a charnel, half a receptacle for the sexton's tools. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire He hath given us the beauty and fertility of the earth, and we have made the scene of his bounty a charnel house and a battlefield. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day And when he bent, the earthy lips A kiss of horror gave; 'Twas like the smell from charnel vaults, Or from the mouldering grave! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Nay, he boasted of his clemency, in "that she had not been strangled, and her body cast into the charnel of malefactors." The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola He had labored too long in the charnel house. The Web of Life A nearer approach showed him that it was the pest-cart, filled with its charnel load. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day She swore and the wide charnel echoed "Never, never!" The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes It has softened certain loathsome details of the charnel facts portrayed, and in other pictures the torment and anguish of the lost souls are no longer so painful as the old painters ascertained them. Roman Holidays, and Others The charnel scent Would make the strongest nerves relent. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes As they opened the door and crossed the charnel, such an extraordinary combination of sounds burst upon their ears that they again paused, and looked anxiously at each other. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Ay, ay, Don Duke, poke in the old charnel houses by yourself, none of your defunct for me! didn't care if they were all hung in a string. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Jenny could never come to him in any fearful images of corruption, nor could he picture her in any mouldering shape of catacomb or charnel. The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] The Pelopidae, for instance—in their case it was not a single skeleton, but a whole charnel house. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Bobby's fingers still responded to the charnel feeling of cold, inactive flesh suddenly become alive and potent beneath his touch. The Abandoned Room But at last this was accomplished, and they entered the vault beyond the charnel, where they found Chowles and Judith Malmayns. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Shakespeare knew that in the course of time graves were often opened and the bones thrown into the charnel house. Halleck's New English Literature In every charnel breast Dead conscience rises slow. A Hidden Life and Other Poems This bowl, a tiny crater among the weeds, showed like some paltry valley of Ezekiel, a charnel place of Herod's innocents, the battlefield of some babes' crusade. Dragon's blood We decay Like corpses in a charnel, &c. Adonais I fortunately observed where Judith had placed it," replied Nizza, "and when she departed to the crypt near the charnel, with Amabel, I possessed myself of it. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire The emergency, however, left him no resource, and he followed his guide to a charnel house, which the latter had selected as his domicile. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales And at the last no solemn stole Shall on thy breast be laid; No mumbling priest shall speed thy soul, No charnel vault thee shade. Salute to Adventurers Here, however, in the charnel house is commemorated but the event of their deepest shame and degradation, their total vanquishment under the dominion of death, the triumph of corruption. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 "The past has its charm, of course, but it is the charm of the charnel house—it is the dead past, and what was good for one age is bad for another." Ideala But no answer was returned, and she soon became convinced that Judith had fastened the door of the charnel, which, it will be remembered, lay between the vault and the body of Saint Faith's. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire One day the dreary old King of Death Inclined for some sport with the carnal, So he tied a pack of darts on his back, And quietly stole from his charnel. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe They see the glittering stars of night shine calmly down on the slaughter house, the charnel of "Paris incendie." The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance But the drama has been led through devious paths into the charnel house, and in "Salome" we must needs listen to the echoes of its dazed and drunken footfalls. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time To the garrisons of these stations, regular charnel- houses, our officers and men come out to die, or else to catch the germ of some incurable illness. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Leonard would have followed them; but as Etherege and the others declined entering the charnel, and remained at the door, he could not do so. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire The pillars of the hall were made of thighbones, and those of the parlour of shinbones, while the floors were formed of layer upon layer of all manner of charnel. The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Then darkness settled again and I was left alone with Murder;—all the innocence of my youth gone, and my soul a very charnel house. Dark Hollow WE decay Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Percy Bysshe Shelley But I know the Neapolitans well; they are timorous and superstitious; they would as soon hug a pestilence as explore a charnel house. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten By this time they had reached the door of the charnel It was closed; but Rochester knocked against it, and Chowles presently appeared. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Below this was a charnel vault where some of the apothecaries had been ground down and stuffed into earthenware pots with Album graecum, dung, and many a stale ointment. The Visions of the Sleeping Bard He who fights and defends himself needs a pure heart: so does he who wanders among charnel houses, gives drink to parched lips, washes fevered faces and bathes wounds. The New Book of Martyrs He went blithe and light-hearted, though he thought me insane; he returned with the air of a serving-man who, expecting to find a well-equipped pantry, had wandered into a charnel house. Simon the Jester In my then state of mind, an emperor's palace were less fair to me than this brave charnel house—this stone-mouthed witness of my struggle back to life and all life's misery. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Armies of slaves toiled ant-wise at his feet, World-circling traffic roared through mart and street, His priests were gods, his spice-balmed kings enshrined, Set death at naught in rock-ribbed charnels deep. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations The mind shrinks in dismay at the appalling revelations, and shudders at the possibly of the "human form divine" becoming such a peripatetic charnel house. The Royal Road to Health At this moment, my study, a very modest extension of my open air establishments, has become something of a charnel house. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The Baumes-Chaudes caves are the most complete charnel houses of Neolithic times yet discovered. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Again that strange undesired laugh broke from my lips involuntarily, and the echoes of the charnel house responded to it with unearthly and ghastly distinctness. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten At length the flame quivers,—the air grows cold as the wind in charnels. Zanoni It was at this party at the Browns—to which I duly went, although in sore disgrace—that my charnel poets played me a mean trick. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments In the underground charnel house, so rich in Fly grubs, I find no corpses of adult flies. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot Let me know fully therefore the effect Of this thy dismal preparation, This talk fit for a charnel. The Duchess of Malfi Thy life has left thee, to live in the heart of a daughter of the charnel and the worm. Zanoni The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely daubed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 They are not, it is true, so numerous as in the charnel house below, but still pretty frequent. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Some of the beasts we slew, and the blood of them was green as ooze, and their stench like a charnel house. The Path of the King Bishop Carpenter made a library in the charnel house chantry, and endowed it with L 10 for a librarian. Old English Libraries And then, as a wind from a charnel, was heard its voice. Zanoni My fancy grew charnel, I talked "of worms, of tombs, and epitaphs." The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 The Volucella's offspring, themselves maggots, notwithstanding their snowy apparel, find in this charnel house victuals to their liking, incessantly renewed. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Yet stay—it is horrible to be alone!—the air is like a charnel—and the scorpions—ha! and the pale larvae; oh! stay, stay!' Last Days of Pompeii The charnel house was near the north porch of the Cathedral, and stood on or near the site of the present Precentor's house. Old English Libraries If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. Macbeth From that memorable night, I dismissed forever my charnel apprehensions, and with them vanished the cataleptic disorder, of which, perhaps, they had been less the consequence than the cause. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Now in this charnel house, as I said, there are never any dead bumblebee flies, never a fly of any sort. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The voice of Nature was no more heeded in that charnel city than it is in the tomb itself! Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes O it were pleasant with you To fly from this tussle of foes, The shambles, the charnel, the wrinkle! Poems — Volume 2 At this moment the world with its sweetness seems to me a sort of charnel house. A Voyage to Arcturus It was a charnel yard on the hill-side, near to one of the town's six gates. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine.” Jane Eyre I have stolen at midnight bell, Like you, to the secret cell, Shuddering at its charnel breath — Left lockfast the spectre, Death. An Anthology of Australian Verse The gloom which surrounded that horrible charnel pit, which seemed to go down to the very bowels of the earth, conveyed from far down the sights and sounds of the nethermost hell. Lair of the White Worm And yet, believing this with absolute conviction, they somehow lacked the nerve to rush the frail wraith of a man with the white skin and escape from the charnel house by the whale-boats. Adventure For Asmund looked ghastly and seemed to be covered as with the corruption of the charnel. The Danish History, Books I-IX She was fruit of the charnel house, a heap of matter and blood, a shovelful of corrupted flesh thrown down on the pillow. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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