ossuary

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

But 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

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

His guide, a young monk, led him down into the ossuary — “room after room of bones, of every monk who had served at St. Catherine’s.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2018

We went to the Cemetery, which has its ossuary, reliquary, or bone-house, an inseparable appendage to a Breton churchyard.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser

Lasting art can be mysterious and often misunderstood; this can also be said of ossuaries.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

His “Ruins of Rome” etchings depict landmarks like the Pantheon and the Castel Sant’Angelo, but its most famous images show rubble-strewn gardens and crumbling bridges, and tricorn-hatted gentlemen wandering through collapsed temples and overgrown ossuaries.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

During that search, the two ossuaries were discovered under a trapdoor in the floor of a nearby building.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2019

“These are closed by a trap door, and these ossuaries have been sealed for subsequent examination and possible retrieval of material stored there.”

From Fox News ● Jul. 13, 2019

What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead and slept with princes and counsellors might admit a wide solution.

From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum