Charnels

Word CHARNELS
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Definitions and meanings of "Charnels"

What do we mean by charnels?

A chapel attached to a mortuary.

A repository for dead bodies.

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The word "charnels" in example sentences

Up to the seventeenth century, it mattered little to most people where their bones ended up just as long as they remained in the vicinity of the church, so it was common to see human remains in the galleries of the charnels, or the church porch, even in small chapels specially designed for the purpose. ❋ John Connolly (2005)

Ch. P-guy, Morceaux choisis des -uvres Po'tiques (Librairie Paul Ollendorf): Pri're pour nous autres charnels. ❋ Felix, Klein (1915)

President Hitchcock tells us that, "when the last trumpet sounds, the whole surface of the earth will become instinct with life, from the charnels of battle fields alone more than a thousand millions of human beings starting forth and crowding upwards to the judgment seat." ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

In the alcoves of death, in the charnels of timid, ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Now and then some miserable forms in the Jewish gown might be seen cowering by the ruins of their house, like the souls that, according to Plato, watched in charnels over their own mouldering bodies. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

At length the flame quivers, -- the air grows cold as the wind in charnels. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies take with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's. ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)

[The preacher appears to have had the grave scene in "Hamlet" in his mind, as he gives the same illustration of Alexander as Hamlet does.] how there is no difference; that nobody could tell that of the great Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies take with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's. ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1664)

“until I have vindicated, even in your eyes, darkened as they are, that reputation, a brighter gem than the brightest in thy crown, and at which the world shall wonder, ages after all the race of Capet [the surname of the kings of France, beginning with Hugh Capet, 987] are mouldered into oblivion in the charnels of Saint Denis.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Young sings, "Now charnels rattle; scatter'd limbs, and all The various bones, obsequious to the call, Self moved, advance; the neck perhaps to meet The distant head; the distant head the feet. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

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