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Examples
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Pent in their vast and festering charnel-house, all organization and cohesion lost, they could do naught but die.
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Farther around, always treading the bones and images of humans and gods that constituted the floor of this ancient charnel-house of sacrifice, he came upon the device by which the Red One was made to send his call singing thunderingly across the jungle-belts and grass-lands to the far beach of Ringmanu.
THE RED ONE 2010
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This is the only Juliet I've seen I could easily imagine transposed into the charnel-house world of Jacobean tragedy.
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I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.
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In truth, we found fevers, violent deaths, pestilential paradises where death and beauty kept charnel-house together.
Chapter 15 2010
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“I shall escape from it as soon as I decently can,” he declared, “with the same pleasure that one would fly from a charnel-house.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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“I shall escape from it as soon as I decently can,” he declared, “with the same pleasure that one would fly from a charnel-house.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Could Dante have walked beside me across that dreadful place, which had been transformed by human agency from a peaceful countryside to a garbage heap, a cesspool, and a charnel-house combined, he would never have written his 'Inferno,' because the hell of his imagination would have seemed colourless and tame.
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It's not long, though before a shredding wind is tearing the top-dressing from the scene to reveal the charnel-house beneath.
Jasmin Vardimon Company: 7734 – review Luke Jennings 2010
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Her boudoir is studded round with skulls like a charnel-house; and bold and dirty creatures from St. Giles come into her very dressing - room, with their rickety brats in their arms, to put their large misshapen heads under her inspection, as the future mighty geniuses of the land.
Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies 2008
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