Cellars

Examples

• They descended into the passage, and thence into the cellars below. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The large bunch is the housekeeping, and the little bunch is the cellars, miss. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Osborne's butler came to buy some of the famous port wine to transfer to the cellars over the way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• When Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party on a platform of social reform he crystallized a deep unrest, brought it out of the cellars of resentment into the agora of political discussion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Stumpy and Rowdy, to lie in the cellars of those eminent bankers until the same period should arrive. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was a leak in one of our junction-boxes, and on account of the cellars extending under the street, the top soil had become insulated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Dirt and dust exposed to the sunlight lose their living bacteria, while in damp cellars and dark corners the bacteria thrive, increasing steadily in number. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The practice of preserving roots, vegetables, and plants by covering them with earth or by placing them in cellars, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• She did not even evade the haunted back kitchen nor the vault-like cellars. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As to strong beer, there's enough of it in the cellars already, to drown the Manor House. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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