charnel

How To Use charnel In A Sentence

• Whatever offered an idea, of what their jargon denominated _charnelle_, was treason and exile. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
• Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses. Chapter 4
• Between them both sides lost half a million men and how many still lie buried in that charnel soil may never be known.
• The symbolic suitability of dark and dismal weather, however, is not the main reason Mary Shelley selected this particular month for the nativity of Victor's charnel creature.
• Most knights' bones never got into charnels; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church.
• These charnel facilities consisted of a shallow limestone-lined pit, made from a single layer of horizontal slabs that were laid out on a prepared subsoil surface.
• Olokona, to tell me of his mother, who reverted in her old age to ancientness of religious concept and ancestor worship, and collected and surrounded herself with the charnel bones of those who had been her forerunners back in the darkness of time. SHIN-BONES
• His chamber is hung commonly with strange beasts skins, and is a kind of charnel-house of bones extraordinary; and his discourse upon them, if you will hear him, shall last longer. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
• It is argued, based on archaeological and ethnohistoric data, that the layout of the mound, burials, and charnel features is patterned after Native American notions of the cosmos.
• In truth, we found fevers, violent deaths, pestilential paradises where death and beauty kept charnel-house together. Chapter 15