death-house

You remember that death-house, built of skulls, and the human sacrifices, and those savage Amazon women who were Gezo's bodyguard?

Watershed 2010

America caught in crucifixion machine, only barbarians want them burned I say stop it before we fill our souls with death-house horror.

Literary Skeleton Crew : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2008

Chain-smoking Marlboros and pacing in his 10-foot-square cell last week, Joseph M. Giarratano was too anxious to eat the death-house lunch.

Pardon Me, Governor Wilder 2008

My own opposition to the death penalty makes me somewhat ambivalent toward all the contrivances and distancing musical diversions Mr. von Trier employs to get to his climactic death-house extravaganza.

This Is Not a Think Piece About Lars von Trier 2000

My own opposition to the death penalty makes me somewhat ambivalent toward all the contrivances and distancing musical diversions Mr. von Trier employs to get to his climactic death-house extravaganza.

This Is Not a Think Piece About Lars von Trier 2000

You remember that death-house, built of skulls, and the human sacrifices, and those savage Amazon women who were Gezo's bodyguard?

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

Take the captain of Gezo's Amazons, for example, who'd ogled me so outrageously during the death-house feast; or Sonsee-array the Apache (my fourth wife, in a manner of speaking); or Queen Ranavalona, who'd once confessed shyly that when I died she intended to have part of me pickled in a bottle, and worshipped; or Lady Caroline Lamb - the Dahomey slave, not the other one, who was before my time.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Take the captain of Gezo's Amazons, for example, who'd ogled me so outrageously during the death-house feast; or Sonsee-array the Apache (my fourth wife, in a manner of speaking); or Queen Ranavalona, who'd once confessed shyly that when I died she intended to have part of me pickled in a bottle, and worshipped; or Lady Caroline Lamb — the Dahomey slave, not the other one, who was before my time.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

The death-house was past the harbor, along the shore; a stone-walled hut, with a roof of driftwood held down with stones.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

We burned him at evening, on a platform near the death-house, whose stone is blackened with old fires.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978