Morgue definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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He opened the great door through which so few living men and women ever pass Gerald Burton and Nancy Dampier walked out into the sunlight, and the last thing they saw of the Morgue was the smiling face of the concierge--it was not often that he received ten francs for doing his simple duty Au plaisir de vous revoir, monsieur, madame: au plaisir de vous revoir!"

—The End of Her Honeymoon

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It dawned on Tess that the real purpose of the Morgue was providing people with a series of semidark caves in which to grope each other. — Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
They had shucked their eighties costumes from the Morgue, and their eighties ennui along with it. — Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
She circled the Morgue, a forlorn place in daylight, all its doors locked and bolted, even the back entrance off the loading dock. — Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
In a 1951 afterword to 1942's Rocket to the Morgue, a mystery set among science-fiction writers and fans, Boucher noted that, a devotee of science fiction for twelve years then, he had written the novel in part as homage: In one way it was very badly timed: the readers of hardcover books had at that time never heard of science fiction, and the whole subject seemed a little unbelievable to them. — F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
And the wonderful logos for the contents page, the Blotter, and the Morgue are by the incredibly talented Thomas Floyd. — AdventureTales#1