And I guess you-all'd sooner give my chips back than go to the dead-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Approaching Notre Dame by the river-side, I passed on my way the terrible dead-house of Paris — the Morgue. ❋ Unknown (2003)
There was an air of bravado in all she did, at this time — as in the matter of her determination to go to the dead-house — and she hurt him, with reckless cruelty, whenever ❋ Unknown (2003)
There were at the date of their arrival thirty-nine sick men in the hospital, and six lay unburied in the dead-house. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
Still more quaint and quiet is Willow Square, behind this curious house, where, beneath drooping willow-boughs, one finds one's self beside the door of the old German chapel, with the little dead-house, the boys 'school and the great and comparatively modern Moravian church near by. ❋ Various (N/A)
He looked over the list of failures, in the "Independent," with something of the interest which a patient in a hospital would feel when overhearing the report from the dead-house. ❋ Various (N/A)
The dead-house, fortunately empty, was consumed, the headboards and crosses were burned, the trees were scorched and blackened, the graves were seared: all the life which the years had drawn from the entombed ashes was laid again in ashes. ❋ Various (N/A)
We both laughed, though the Doctor was on his way to the dead-house and ❋ Various (N/A)
The figures lay in glass cases, and Dicky remarked, with unusual seriousness, that it was like a dead-house. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
"Did you know this man?" questioned one of the officers, addressing the child, and motioning the driver to be quiet, for he had other work to do, and was in haste to get the body of Chester into the dead-house. ❋ Ann S. Stephens (N/A)
The rest of his salary was spent among the boxes of books which line the parapet of the Paris quays, -- a sort of literary Morgue or dead-house, where the still-born and deceased children of the press are exhibited, to challenge the pity of passers-by, and so escape the corner grocer and the neighboring trunk-maker. ❋ Various (N/A)
Well was it for me, as it proved, that my necessities drove me to the dead-house to forget hunger, and obtain eleemosynary warmth. ❋ Various (N/A)
Moreover, bodies are not brought there to be buried at once, but are placed within twelve hours after death in the dead-house, where they are allowed to remain forty-eight hours before burial. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Prefect of Police would set a hundred intelligences at work to find him; the Seine might be dragged, _les misérables_ turned over at the dead-house; a minute description of him would be in every detective's pocket; and he -- in M. Dorine's family tomb! ❋ Various (N/A)
Bodies the police needed to photograph had to be stood up or propped upright against the dead-house wall because the camera could not be pointed down or at an angle. ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)
After the victim was identified, the clothing was usually tossed out the dead-house door into an alleyway. ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)
Aft, and on either side, was a small state-room; the one room temporarily a jail and the other a dead-house, and a yet smaller compartment leaving a space between, expanding forward into a goodly oblong of length coinciding with the ship's beam. ❋ Unknown (1924)
This revolution was effected by a simple extension of the Hippocratic method from the bed to the dead-house, and by correlating the signs and symptoms of a disease with its anatomical appearances. ❋ Unknown (1921)
When an operation was to be performed, things were managed in the most cheerfully casual way: the patient was laid on a stretcher and carried across the open yard, often in the depth of winter, and as he was always covered up with a rug, the others usually thought he was being taken off to the dead-house. ❋ Johan Bojer (1915)
I love taking pictures of dead [houses], what's [left behind] definitely tells [a story]! ❋ GoldilocksCG (2019)
