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  • You remember that death-house, built of skulls, and the human sacrifices, and those savage Amazon women who were Gezo's bodyguard?

    Watershed 2010

  • America caught in crucifixion machine, only barbarians want them burned I say stop it before we fill our souls with death-house horror.

    Literary Skeleton Crew : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2008

  • Chain-smoking Marlboros and pacing in his 10-foot-square cell last week, Joseph M. Giarratano was too anxious to eat the death-house lunch.

    Pardon Me, Governor Wilder 2008

  • My own opposition to the death penalty makes me somewhat ambivalent toward all the contrivances and distancing musical diversions Mr. von Trier employs to get to his climactic death-house extravaganza.

    This Is Not a Think Piece About Lars von Trier 2000

  • My own opposition to the death penalty makes me somewhat ambivalent toward all the contrivances and distancing musical diversions Mr. von Trier employs to get to his climactic death-house extravaganza.

    This Is Not a Think Piece About Lars von Trier 2000

  • You remember that death-house, built of skulls, and the human sacrifices, and those savage Amazon women who were Gezo's bodyguard?

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • Take the captain of Gezo's Amazons, for example, who'd ogled me so outrageously during the death-house feast; or Sonsee-array the Apache (my fourth wife, in a manner of speaking); or Queen Ranavalona, who'd once confessed shyly that when I died she intended to have part of me pickled in a bottle, and worshipped; or Lady Caroline Lamb - the Dahomey slave, not the other one, who was before my time.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Take the captain of Gezo's Amazons, for example, who'd ogled me so outrageously during the death-house feast; or Sonsee-array the Apache (my fourth wife, in a manner of speaking); or Queen Ranavalona, who'd once confessed shyly that when I died she intended to have part of me pickled in a bottle, and worshipped; or Lady Caroline Lamb — the Dahomey slave, not the other one, who was before my time.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • The death-house was past the harbor, along the shore; a stone-walled hut, with a roof of driftwood held down with stones.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • We burned him at evening, on a platform near the death-house, whose stone is blackened with old fires.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

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