How To Use Charnel In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Between them both sides lost half a million men and how many still lie buried in that charnel soil may never be known.
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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.
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Most knights' bones never got into charnels; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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In truth, we found fevers, violent deaths, pestilential paradises where death and beauty kept charnel-house together.
Chapter 15
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Most knights' bones never got into charnels; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church.
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Out of the gloom emerge the later paintings, charnel house visions of desolation.
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Wherever we went, we found traces of her passage: cemeteries and charnel-houses to bear witness that she was the great victress.
The Frontier
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Constantinople, jusqu '` a traiter l'Occident comne etranger; s'il ne pretend pas que 1'empire appartienne ` a l'Orient, parce que l'Orient voit naitre le Soleil, et que c'est en Orient que Dieu brilla dans une enveloppe charnelle,: [2709] 1
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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Elizabethan monuments were not only funeral buildings like tombs, churches or charnel-houses.
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Emperor, was allowed to enter a kind of charnel-house, and to see what had been the lovely gaily-painted vellums lying squalidly piled in heaps.
The Great Book-Collectors
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Undoubtedly the charnel features had many other meanings to the people who used them, ones that leave no archaeologically identifiable traces.
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From behind the clan house came the cloying reek of the associated charnel house.
Fire The Sky
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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.
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The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
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Each year we build a new addition to the charnel house of contemporary life.
John Feffer: Pinker: Pollyanna of Peace?
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The poshest hotels and some of the most prominent watering holes for tourists and the rich became charnel houses in massacres that threatened to undermine India's astonishing economic growth.
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First, the cave is frequented by wild beasts, who make it a kind of charnel-house.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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The place became a charnel house, and in the middle of the night the survivors fled forth, taking nothing with them except arms and ammunition and a heavy store of tinned foods.
Page 5
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The land for the cemetery was originally leased from St Paul's Cathedral, which had used it as a dumping ground for bones being cleared from the charnel house and tiny burial ground around the church.
Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status
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It was the mysterious, evil forest, a charnel house of silence, wherein naught moved save strange tiny birds -- the strangeness of them making the mystery more profound, for they flitted on noiseless wings, emitting neither song nor chirp, and they were mottled with morbid colours, having all the seeming of orchids, flying blossoms of sickness and decay.
Chapter 25
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It was grey with pain, already almost a death mask and beginning to melt invisibly into the charnel of the killing field.
WALL GAMES
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A charnel stench filled the air and made them recoil in disgust.
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Some say it was merely a charnel pit - a functional repository of massed human bone.
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The charnel was pulled down after the Reformation.
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After the English Reformation, many holy buildings such as tombs, charnel-houses, cloisters and churches were deconsecrated, emptied of their contents, sold away or destroyed.
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a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
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Orient que Dieu brilla dans une enveloppe charnelle, [704] ne voudrait il pas, dans l'ordre religieux, l'union independante, qui, depuis
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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A foul odor of decaying flesh permeated the air of this subterranean charnel chamber.
