Charnel

(adj.) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; 'a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones'; 'ghastly shrieks'; 'the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs' .

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• They have dug a hole, and they have found things like flowerpots upside down, Mis'ess Yeobright; and inside these be real charnel bones. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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