What is "deadhouse"

Usage examples of "deadhouse".

Quick Ben had insisted that the sapper could come through via Deadhouse, though the mage was typically evasive about specifics.

Kalam had begun to view the Deadhouse option as more of a potential escape route if things went wrong than anything else, and even then as a last recourse.

Sergeant Strings of the 4th squad in the 9th Company of the 8th Legion, swear by the ghosts of the Deadhouse and every other nasty nightmare that haunts me that the creature before me is a natural, unaltered Red-backed Bastard scorpion.

The Deadhouse also provided us with an unassailable base of operations.

He was snoring in a back room, and, like a man in the deadhouse of a bush shanty, not likely to wake before sunrise.

The three fresh BMSs, holding to the fantasy that if they left the Rose Room before the Fat Man, their grade would plunge down toward that deadhouse, middle C, stayed.

Chelsea Piers, passing close to the Empire State Building and the Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building, coming in for an easy landing along the East River, in sight of the old deadhouse at the tip of Roosevelt Island.

New York asylums, penitentiaries, and plagues,The Deadhouse conjures up a horrid past to solve a baffling modern murder.

Die in 1997,Cold Hit in 1999, andThe Deadhouse in 2001 also achieved international-bestseller status.

This was early days yet, but as soon as I heard the first rumor of it, I was off to the deadhouses to see for myself.

As is the fashion in some parts of the city, most of these buildings had shops in their lower levels, though they had not been built for the shops but as guildhalls, basilicas, arenas, conservatories, treasuries, oratories, artellos, asylums, manufacturies, conventicles, hospices, lazarets, mills, refectories, deadhouses, abattoirs, and playhouses.