If it goes on much longer, Kosovo threatens to become a depopulated charnel-house.

ECONOMIST: Victim of Serbia--or NATO?

The Soviet Union after Stalin was, of course, still a decidedly unfree place, but it never again became the charnel house that old Iosif Vissarionivich had constructed.

FORBES: Fred Hiatt's Casual Disrespect for the Victims of Stalinism

To that deep charnel house, where so many human remains and so many crimes have rotted in company, many great ones in this world, many innocent people, have contributed their bones.

NPR: Acting the Swan to Overcome the Duck

Could Dante have walked beside me across that dreadful place, which had been transformed by human agency from a peaceful countryside to a garbage heap, a cesspool, and a charnel-house combined, he would never have written his 'Inferno, ' because the hell of his imagination would have seemed colourless and tame.

WSJ: Reflections on Champagne