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  • The woman stopped by the cellar-hole of the Coleridge homestead, paused a moment, fumbling with her guidebook.

    Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON Chris Perridas 2008

  • The woman stopped by the cellar-hole of the Coleridge homestead, paused a moment, fumbling with her guidebook.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008

  • When the last beam had fallen in with a crash to the blackened cellar-hole

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • He closed shop and planted himself out on a bridge, oblivious to wind and rain, haranguing the crowds of spectators, terrifying the stupid with his exaggerations and inventions, and announcing hair-raising news which he asserted he had just received from the Governor by telegraph, and according to which, in two hours, there would not be a cellar-hole left of the place.

    The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • Cato's half-obliterated cellar-hole still remains, though known to few, being concealed from the traveller by a fringe of pines.

    Walden~ Chapter 14 (historical) 1854

  • Cato's half-obliterated cellar-hole still remains, though known to few, being concealed from the traveller by a fringe of pines.

    Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839

  • Cato’s half-obliterated cellar-hole still remains, though known to few, being concealed from the traveller by a fringe of pines.

    Walden 2004

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