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- noun Alternative form of
charnel house .
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Examples
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Farewell, my dearest one -- I must go now to visit the Catacombs, a huge charnelhouse which is said to contain the remains of nearly three million persons, consisting of a labyrinth of galleries lined with bones and rows of skulls through which visitors are escorted on the first and third Saturday of each month at 2 P. M.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937
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Farewell, my dearest one -- I must go now to visit the Catacombs, a huge charnelhouse which is said to contain the remains of nearly three million persons, consisting of a labyrinth of galleries lined with bones and rows of skulls through which visitors are escorted on the first and third Saturday of each month at 2 P. M.
Perfect Behavior 1922
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In these revolutions on the horror of whiteness and the White Whale as the Symbol of that horror, the horror of the world 'formed in fright' in its 'invisible spheres', Melville offers us a coherent, if nihilistic, way of accounting for the 'charnelhouse' of the world, just as Starbuck's naïve goodness is also on offer.
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In these revolutions on the horror of whiteness and the White Whale as the Symbol of that horror, the horror of the world 'formed in fright' in its 'invisible spheres', Melville offers us a coherent, if nihilistic, way of accounting for the 'charnelhouse' of the world, just as Starbuck's naïve goodness is also on offer.
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In these revolutions on the horror of whiteness and the White Whale as the Symbol of that horror, the horror of the world 'formed in fright' in its 'invisible spheres', Melville offers us a coherent, if nihilistic, way of accounting for the 'charnelhouse' of the world, just as Starbuck's naïve goodness is also on offer.
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In these revolutions on the horror of whiteness and the White Whale as the Symbol of that horror, the horror of the world 'formed in fright' in its 'invisible spheres', Melville offers us a coherent, if nihilistic, way of accounting for the 'charnelhouse' of the world, just as Starbuck's naïve goodness is also on offer.
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Are they better off masticating the dew-flecked herbage below them, unaware of the charnelhouse that awaits?
Spencer Green: Hannah Montana: The Movie (3rd draft, by Tom Stoppard) 2009
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To do otherwise is to offer meaningless cocktail banter to make people feel smart and good about themselves but to essentially encourage their descent into the cerebral charnelhouse.
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A hideous charnelhouse scent reeked up in the night air.
The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977
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It was the call of cults who turned the land into a charnelhouse; immemorial madmen who reached for the hearts of children; a meddling fool who chose the Moon-Bog as our new frontier; and a Slumbering King who took us to the Mountains of Madness and fhtagn.
Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011
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