charnels

Up to the seventeenth century, it mattered little to most people where their bones ended up just as long as they remained in the vicinity of the church, so it was common to see human remains in the galleries of the charnels, or the church porch, even in small chapels specially designed for the purpose.

The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

Ch. P-guy, Morceaux choisis des -uvres Po'tiques (Librairie Paul Ollendorf): Pri're pour nous autres charnels.

The Diary of a French Army Chaplain Felix, Klein 1915

President Hitchcock tells us that, "when the last trumpet sounds, the whole surface of the earth will become instinct with life, from the charnels of battle fields alone more than a thousand millions of human beings starting forth and crowding upwards to the judgment seat."

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

In the alcoves of death, in the charnels of timid,

The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

In the alcoves of death, in the charnels of timid,

The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Now and then some miserable forms in the Jewish gown might be seen cowering by the ruins of their house, like the souls that, according to Plato, watched in charnels over their own mouldering bodies.

Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book V. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Now and then some miserable forms in the Jewish gown might be seen cowering by the ruins of their house, like the souls that, according to Plato, watched in charnels over their own mouldering bodies.

Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

At length the flame quivers, -- the air grows cold as the wind in charnels.

Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies take with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies take with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 27: March 1663-64 Samuel Pepys 1668