| 单词 | charnel house |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "No," Vivian admitted, "But it's like uncovering a charnel house!" she shuddered. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 That would be too much like writing Hamlet in a charnel house. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 And the last scene is played in death’s red charnel house. Satan Absolved 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 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 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 Another breeze brings faint odors of the charnel house from Bradley's. Old Plymouth Trails 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 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) 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 Yes, I visited your charnel houses and your cemeteries. Carmen Ariza "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 Simon realized that if he drew his scimitar, the room would be a charnel house in moments. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel 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 second church stood near, deserted, gloomy, no longer a temple of God, but a charnel house of fear and black superstition. Carmen Ariza 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) 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 The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house. The Opal Serpent 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 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 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 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 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 Webster's images have the smell of the charnel house about them. Brief History of English and American Literature 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 So it was that Vesta found herself the sole living person in the palace that had become a charnel house. The Scarlet Plague 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 The world is a charnel house of dead religions. Damn! A Book of Calumny 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 On the evening after a frightful battle, they were all three in the charnel house where the dead bodies are brought. Fighting France 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 First the bottomless pit and then a charnel house. The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island 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 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 For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English. The Jungle For God's sake get me out of this charnel house! The Golden Calf The heads are skull-like, and the stony feet Seem for the charnel house but only meet. Poems The charnel houses of iniquity must ever be the workshops of the Salvationist. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord 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 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 He had labored too long in the charnel house. The Web of Life 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 The Pelopidae, for instance—in their case it was not a single skeleton, but a whole charnel house. Phantom Fortune, a Novel 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 It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Baumes-Chaudes caves are the most complete charnel houses of Neolithic times yet discovered. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot 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 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 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 Bishop Carpenter made a library in the charnel house chantry, and endowed it with L 10 for a librarian. 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 At this moment the world with its sweetness seems to me a sort of charnel house. A Voyage to Arcturus 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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