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Synonyms for charnel house


Grammar : Noun



Définition of charnel house

  • noun tomb building
Example sentences :
  • The city will be a charnel house when these bodies start to decompose.
  • Extract from : « The End of Time » by Wallace West
  • The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house.
  • Extract from : « The Opal Serpent » by Fergus Hume
  • Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
  • Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai
  • It is like a blast from a charnel house; but then, what power, what lucidity!
  • Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker
  • It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones.
  • Extract from : « The Fair Maid of Perth » by Sir Walter Scott
  • A curious early fifteenth-century story is associated with this charnel house.
  • Extract from : « Paris and its Story » by Thomas Okey
  • From this charnel house let me to-night draw forth one of these.
  • Extract from : « White Slavery in the Barbary States » by Charles Sumner
  • It thrusts the girls into a charnel house of sin, sickness, and death.
  • Extract from : « The Making of Mary » by Jean Forsyth
  • The bright world had become a place of skulls, a charnel house, a prison whose iron walls were closing in on him eternally.
  • Extract from : « The Terms of Surrender » by Louis Tracy
  • The smell of the charnel house was driven away and the whole city was filled with the fumes of carbolic acid and lime in solution.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror » by Various

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