Cupboards
[kʌbədz]
Examples
- Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Cupboards and bookcases lined the walls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was during this period that the young English lord found hidden in the back of one of the cupboards in the cabin a small metal box. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This was another of her ways of forming a mind--to cram all articles of difficulty into cupboards, lock them up, and say they had no existence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He opened chests and cupboards, such as did not baffle his small experience, and in these he found the contents much better preserved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Typist: Nora