The carrion ghosts of Bierce, animated by malignant foreign spirits, surpass the charnel shudders produced by the Gothic.
The young girl is found to be dead and the father says: "With my own hands I bore her to the tomb; and I laughed, with a long and bitter laugh, as I found no traces of the first in the charnel where I laid the second Morella.
To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume.
A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
The murky air of the charnel house was heavy with the scent of tube-roses, violets and pale white roses.
No matter; after enduring the dread companionship of the dead in the charnel house, I can bear that chained creature also.
A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.
I smelled the charnel house upon that rusted frame; corruption was in the cage which inclosed me and in the air that I breathed.
I seemed to breathe the atmosphere of a charnel house.
Sub-Footnote iv: In the 1793 edition this line reads "Asleep on Minden's charnel plain afar.
The 'errata', list inserted in some copies of that edition gives "Bunker's charnel hill.
And yet, believing this with absolute conviction, they somehow lacked the nerve to rush the frail wraith of a man with the white skin and escape from the charnel house by the whale-boats.
Lights, patience and hard work brought about some semblance of system and at last word was given that the last body had been removed from the charnel house.
Then came the press of people, who, frantic with anxiety, had beaten back the police guard to look for loved ones in the charnel house.
In the "Evening Walk" he had originally written "And bids her soldier come her wars to share Asleep on Minden's charnel hill afar.
She is going down into the tomb in Belgium--if she can get through--to take her boy out of the charnel house, where he is buried under six other coffins.
It is like living in a charnelhouse where devils are at play flinging dead men's flesh at living men, with fiendish mockery.
It is a charnel house, with dead lying everywhere.
Whether it was destined also to become a charnel house, a shambles, depended on the early coming of those other, unseen men toiling up that black ravine.
In every charnelbreast Dead conscience rises slow: They, dumb before that awful guest, Turn, one by one, and go.
What man would for his lost loves grope Amid the charnel dust!
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.
So it was that Vesta found herself the sole living person in the palace that had become a charnel house.
Item, whoso breaketh a spear from the charnel upwards shall be allowed for two.
First, whoso breaketh a spear between the saddle and the charnel of the helm shall be allowed for one.
The terrible discovery unnerved Francesco so completely that for a time he stood as if turned to stone, looking about him like a traveller who has stumbled blindly into a charnel house.
The stench from the place was as the breath of a charnel house, and the duke and his men turned back with grim faces from the brutal silence of that ghastly town.
If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.
The odor of a charnel house immediately assailed the forester's nostrils.
The thought then occurred to me: 'Last night the abominable food that I carried to my family from Gregory's human charnel house kept them from dying in the agonies of starvation.
From time to time, however, the bones were collected and placed in this crypt of Charnel Chapel.
Next to the library stood the College of the Minor Canons: then came Charnel Chapel, beneath which was a crypt filled with human bones taken from the churchyard.
There are yet standing some portions of the original house, so that the stones of Charnel Chapel may still be seen.
Her bones will soon bleach on the rude charnel pile, and her skull may perhaps one day, by the hands of some unscrupulous traveller, be conveyed to Doctor S.
I walked on to the campo santo, for the purpose of carrying away two skulls which I had selected and laid aside on the charnel pile at the time of the funeral.
Engraving 49: Charnel House and Convent] Death was all around us.
In the Evening Walk he had originally written And bids her soldier come her wars to share Asleep on Minden's charnel hill afar.
An erratum at the end directs us to correct the second verse, thus: Asleep on Bunker's charnel hill afar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charnel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
