"Deadhouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... large enough to allow of a body being pushed through it, for no malefactor's corpse must be carried through the prison entrance, lest it should defile the "Gate of Righteousness." There is also a hovel called a deadhouse, into which these bodies are conveyed till a grave has been dug in some "accursed place," by members of ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop) |
