dead-house

And I guess you-all'd sooner give my chips back than go to the dead-house.

Chapter IV 2010

Approaching Notre Dame by the river-side, I passed on my way the terrible dead-house of Paris — the Morgue.

The Woman in White 2003

There was an air of bravado in all she did, at this time — as in the matter of her determination to go to the dead-house — and she hurt him, with reckless cruelty, whenever

Maurice Guest 2003

There were at the date of their arrival thirty-nine sick men in the hospital, and six lay unburied in the dead-house.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

Still more quaint and quiet is Willow Square, behind this curious house, where, beneath drooping willow-boughs, one finds one's self beside the door of the old German chapel, with the little dead-house, the boys 'school and the great and comparatively modern Moravian church near by.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

He looked over the list of failures, in the "Independent," with something of the interest which a patient in a hospital would feel when overhearing the report from the dead-house.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

The dead-house, fortunately empty, was consumed, the headboards and crosses were burned, the trees were scorched and blackened, the graves were seared: all the life which the years had drawn from the entombed ashes was laid again in ashes.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

We both laughed, though the Doctor was on his way to the dead-house and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

The rest of his salary was spent among the boxes of books which line the parapet of the Paris quays, -- a sort of literary Morgue or dead-house, where the still-born and deceased children of the press are exhibited, to challenge the pity of passers-by, and so escape the corner grocer and the neighboring trunk-maker.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

The Prefect of Police would set a hundred intelligences at work to find him; the Seine might be dragged, _les misérables_ turned over at the dead-house; a minute description of him would be in every detective's pocket; and he -- in M. Dorine's family tomb!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various