ossuary

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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

The layering suggests geological strata, or the arrangement of skulls in a medieval ossuary.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

He was buried in a specially designed crypt in the cathedral which he commissioned that will be the resting place of all future archbishops after the remains of their predecessors are transferred to an ossuary.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022

It was proposed to deposit in this ossuary not only the bones from the Innocents, but from all the other cemeteries, charniers, and sepulchral chapels of Paris.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William