99 examples of morgue in sentences
(1) Mortal, immortality, mortify, postmortem, mortgage, morgue; (2) mortmain, moribund, À la mort.
For myself, however, I was mentally discussing certain topics which had formed matter for conversation between us at an earlier period of the evening; I mean the affair of the Rue Morgue, and the mystery attending the murder of Marie Rogêt.
Whereas to-night, while still that poor mutilated body lay nameless in the Morgue... Mademoiselle Athenais Reneaux lived up in most gratifying fashion to the tone of her note.
Another, Madame Ledaust, a working housekeeper, living at 76, Passage du Caire, was shot down before the Archbishop's palace, and died at the Morgue.
Personally I should rather go to a morgue for a picnic than to Louvain as it looks to-day.
"Later: Have been twice to the Casualty List Office, or Information Bureau, where the names of the verwundet und gefallen are posted column after column, company after company, regiment after regiment of fine black typenothing more or less than a printer's morgue, crowding into one dark hallway the cemetery of a nation.
The tales of ratiocinationwhat are now generally termed detective storiesinclude The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) and its sequel, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842-1843), The Gold-Bug (1843), The Oblong Box (1844), "Thou Art the Man" (1844), and The Purloined Letter (1844).
Conan Doyle's detective stories would probably never have been written had not Poe first composed "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; and the stories of horror and fear so common to-day are possible because Poe wrote "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," and other stories of the same kind.
One of the most famous is "The Murders of the Rue Morgue."
In the "Murders in the Rue Morgue" the author necessarily began at the end, imagined the solution of the mystery, and gradually worked back to the beginning, bringing in his detective after everything had been carefully constructed for him, though to the ordinary reader of the story it seems as if the detective came to a real mystery.
My fate would have found me sooner or later, and this soft couch is better than a hospital bed or the slabs of La Morgue: this draught is more soothing than the cold waters of the Thames or the Seine.
The sole occasion upon which he laid aside his morgue, and then to all appearance involuntarily, was while driving through the streets of the capital in the carriage of the King.
Both were young, handsome, and giddy; greedy of admiration, and regardless of the comments of those about them; and never perhaps did any Princess of Spain more thoroughly divest herself of the morgue peculiar to her nation than the wife of Louis XIII, whose Court set at defiance all etiquette which interfered with the amusement of the hour.
The lady in the morgue.
Rocket to the morgue.
SEE RICKENBACKER, EDWARD V. WHITE, WILLIAM A. P. Rocket to the morgue, by H. H. Holmes, pseud.
The lady in the morgue.
Rocket to the morgue.
SEE RICKENBACKER, EDWARD V. WHITE, WILLIAM A. P. Rocket to the morgue, by H. H. Holmes, pseud.
Hundreds of human skeletons were strewed around; as far as the eye could penetrate these mournful relics presented themselves; they were very perfect, and had evidently not been disturbed since death; some had more the appearance of the shrivelled-up remains which we find in the Morgue on the road to the Grand St. Bernard, and lay about us in all the varied positions induced by their miserable fate.
Tom went to the morgue, and applied to the police, and, in fact, used every means at his command to learn something.
In this neighbourhood there are also the famous Hotel Dieu and Notre Dame, to both of which places we paid a visit, looking en passant at the Morgue.
Madame sits in the morgue wagon!"
The morgue wagon pursued its way down the Rue de Rivoli, while we risked colds, croup, and everything else in an endeavour to find a "grand bain," splashing through puddles but marching steadily on, Jimmie in a somewhat strained silence limping uncomplainingly at our side.
Literary history is the great "Morgue" where every one seeks his dead, those whom he loves or to whom he is related.