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charnel house

noun as in tomb building

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If I think about it for a moment, there are obviously lots of policy implications of Gosnell's baby charnel house.

The factory had indeed become a charnel-house, it being useless for the chiefs to admonish their men to keep under cover.

Its door an entrance to a living charnel-house, its iron-barred windows but the outlook of hell!

I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.

The spectacle now under their eyes was itself sufficiently disagreeable, seeming a very charnel-house.

The bright world had become a place of skulls, a charnel house, a prison whose iron walls were closing in on him eternally.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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