The undertaker, true to his craft, had made the best display he could of his goods, and there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered our spirits at once.
The royal nest reminded Fausto of a macabre mixture of a mortuary and a laboratory.
Already, Mary Swinburne, who had been a guest at the hotel, was lying dead in the mortuary at this very moment and no one knew why.
She had made the grim discovery of a waiting room being used as a mortuary.
Franz and the count descended these, and found themselves in a mortuary chamber.