A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

First the bottomless pit and then a charnel house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island] Reference

A combination of charnel-house and menagerie smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

The country seemed to be one endless charnel-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris War Days Diary of an American] Reference

But safe to make success a charnel house recital is!.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

Lo! the depths of the stone-covered charnel are stirred!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

Alas! how soon it was to be turned into a charnel house!.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference

It was France that was making all Europe a charnel-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Or the livid lamps of madness in the charnel-house of doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

And why does this charnel-house smell infect their nostrils?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted Chamber A Novel] Reference

More like a charnel truant stray'd from regions of the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title] Reference

He cannot be accused of over-fondness for charnel-houses or ghosts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

On leaving this charnel-house of mortality, we drove to the Abattoir de.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

Day by day the stench, like that of a charnel house, became more unbearable to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick in the Everglades] Reference

Go hence -- go hence! thou shalt not unfold the awful mysteries of this charnel-house!.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

By Monday the city reeked with the smell of a charnel house and pestilence was in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

Simon realized that if he drew his scimitar, the room would be a charnel house in moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Then a tomb-maker whose talk is of the charnel-house, and who taunts her with her mortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

Piled in all directions they lay, the whole vast floor was indeed a stupendous charnel house.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

Universe is not dead and demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres; but godlike, and my Father's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference

And in the distance I must be able to see the charnel-house, with its death-head cut in the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference

And all this, and much more, in that fearful charnel city, with death and suffering on every side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

Some of them indeed do not keep up the eternal fire, and have turned their temples into charnel-houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

In this helpless condition he lies, looking like some mass of putrefaction that has just been removed from a charnel-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference

Though only a charnel house it is laid out with great care, in street, square, and alley, just like the abodes of men above.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Night fell on a field piled thick with bodies of the attacking force; in front of the broken salient was a perfect charnel-house!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Paris; but their bones have since been transferred to the subterranean catacombs, which form the general charnel-house of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

For four hours the slaughter continued, and when "Cease fire" was ordered, the road for nine miles was literally a vast charnel-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

Abruptly, he was seeing again the exploding ships of Throm, and the charnel smell of Kordule on victorious Meloa was thick in his nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victory] Reference

Indeed, Hope spread her wings and left this castle long since, and it has been little better than a charnel-house until your appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference