dog-hole

Do but see the sky-line — why, this is really a little bit — an exquisite little bit — Who the devil can it be? and how can he have stumbled upon the dog-hole in the Old Town, and the snarling

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Here every one wants to let his own especial dog-hole to us, so it is very hard to get settled.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Foma felt sorry to see his jolly and brisk schoolmate so worn out, and living in this dog-hole, which seemed to be swollen from burns.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

The hurling satire of the opening paragraph -- the torch of learning having so illuminated every cranny and dog-hole in the universe that the creation of the world had now become no more mysterious than the making of a dumpling, though concerning this last there were still some to whom the question as to how the apples were got in presented an insoluble problem -- this seized me with an amazement of pleasure.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

-- Many things low and vulgar are marked with the prefix "dog"; as _dog-rose_, _dog-trick_, _dog-hole_, as also

Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 Various

-- It occurs to me that you have made a slight mistake, -- this is London, not a dog-hole in the desert. '

The Beetle Richard Marsh

Flynn lives in a lonely house about half a mile out of Ballinknock, and the 'bag-man' got home to it and through the wee dog-hole into the yard with just six inches to spare.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 Various

You ain't going to keep me in this damned dog-hole, on board your rubbishy tartane.

The Rover 1923

And there's a dog-hole down on the Gold Coast where I intended to land this cargo, but now that Scab Johnny's gone to work and sent me a bay scow instead of a sea-goin 'steamer, I'm in the nine-hole instead o' dog-hole.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

So with what speed I might I got me down into the hold and to my dog-hole.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915