coal-cellar

A scullery in the old world was, in the case of such houses as ours, a damp, unsavory, mainly subterranean region behind the dark living-room kitchen, that was rendered more than typically dirty in our case by the fact that into it the coal-cellar, a yawning pit of black uncleanness, opened, and diffused small crunchable particles about the uneven brick floor.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Long nodded impassively and the conversation turned to the collection of furniture the cellar contained, some of which was going to have to come out through the coal-cellar doors.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Long nodded impassively and the conversation turned to the collection of furniture the cellar contained, some of which was going to have to come out through the coal-cellar doors.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

The coal-cellar flew open before the foot of Mordacks; but no

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Mr. Slope had, moreover, observed that the locks of the outhouses were very imperfect: he might specify the coal-cellar and the woodhouse.

Barchester Towers 2004

Thus, as a case of the first class, he said that both Christ and Buddha were called by the divine voice coming out of the sky, as if you would expect the divine voice to come out of the coal-cellar.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

The coal-cellar, which also contained the electric meter, had been left locked and the meter turned off before the family left — they apparently had a few grains of sense — which accounts for the chill darkness of the house when I entered it.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

He thought he had better go down into the coal-cellar again and slip out of the hole.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

So Fatty cautiously made his way downstairs and crept through the kitchen to the door that led down into the coal-cellar.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

"No, " said Fatty, not dreaming that Mr. Goon was well and truly locked into the coal-cellar of Milton House.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963