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Charnel

noun
1.
A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.  Synonym: charnel house.
adjective
1.
Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.  Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral.  "Ghastly shrieks" , "The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"



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"Charnel" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought to live; in black draped they their corpses; even in their talk do I still feel the evil flavour of charnel-houses. ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche

... a way out of this accursed charnel-house before long, I think that we shall add to its company," ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard

... Sigmund Oroshaz, whose sad and pensive face of a soldier who has seen too much slaughter and too many charnel houses, was marked by a large scar, raised his head and said in a ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant

... that even a pa'son might backslide to such things in these gory times—I won't say on a Zunday, but on a week-night like this—when we think what a blasphemious rascal he is, and that there's not a more charnel-minded villain towards ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy

... let his imagination dwell on these details of the charnel-house. In a letter to Dallas, August 12, 1811, he writes, "I am already too familiar with the dead. It is strange that I look on the skulls which stand beside me (I have always had four in my study) without emotion, but I cannot strip the features of those I have known of their fleshy ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron


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