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charnel house

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charnel house
A building or chamber for the deposit of the bones of the dead.


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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.
For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English.
 
 
 
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