charnel

• Also he became aware of a curious charnel-house kind of stench that now and then issued from the cavern. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
• When this was fairly ablaze, he ignited the biggest and thickest branch he had with him, and was soon in possession of a brilliantly burning flambeau, holding which in one hand, and his bow and arrow in the other, he at once boldly plunged into the interior of the cavern, glancing keenly about him as he held his torch aloft The first thing that Phil noticed was that the fetid, charnel-house odour which had before assailed his nostrils was now, for some reason, not nearly so strong as when he had previously stood in the entrance of the cavern; indeed it was scarcely perceptible. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
• Every building has a character of its own, a personality apart from other houses in the street, and nearly all are gay with paint and gilding, and instinct with a natural feeling for artistic decoration that was only appreciated at its true worth after the Huguenot iconoclasts had wrecked it Amid all this life and colour death and the taint of death are ever present, for every church is little better than a charnel-house, and in the crowded city nearly eighty cemeteries are packed with dead. —  The Story of Rouen
• Lyon Berners went out to meet him CHAPTER XXVIII A GHASTLY PROCESSION If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.--SHAKESPEARE Well?" —  Cruel As The Grave
• This first impression ever remained in my mind: I regarded it as a charnel-house It was quite late when we entered the town, which was very large compared to ours. —  Debts of Honor

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