ice-house

When the highhole perforated the ice-house and let out the sawdust, you called him a lunatic ....

The Other Animals 2010

Under unusual circumstances it still does the usual thing, wherefore the highhole perforating the ice-house is guilty of lunacy — of unreason, in short.

The Other Animals 2010

Like frozen daggers on an ice-house rooftop, his thoughts pierced into what was left of his soul.

Never Sated Michael J. Solender 2010

“It is the practice with some indolent cooks, to set the freezer, containing the cream, in a tub with ice and salt, and put it in the ice-house; it will certainly freeze there, but not until the watery particles have subsided, and by the separation destroyed the cream,” wrote Mary Randolph in The Virginia Housewife.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

He was nine years old when he got his first job, attending the ice-house of a farm-goods store on the corner where he lived.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

A large storage ice-house has been erected on the bank near the railroad by the Philadelphia Milk Supply Company, and at the proper season large quantities of ice are harvested and stored or shipped at this point, which combines the advantages of a high altitude, pure lake water, principally derived from springs in the neighborhood, and convenient transportation.

Living in Dryden: The Dryden Lake area in the 19th century 2004

We had a private chapel and an Angelus bell, a ha-ha and an ice-house and a croquet lawn and weeping lime trees that blew down in gales.

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

I am going to say to you that a human being can live without complaint in an ice-house built for seals at a temperature of fifty-five degrees below zero, and you are going to doubt my word.

Epistemic Paradoxes Sorensen, Roy 2006

She neither shrieked nor fainted; but no poor January fieldfare was ever colder, no ice-house more dank with perspiration, than she was then.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

A large storage ice-house has been erected on the bank near the railroad by the Philadelphia Milk Supply Company, and at the proper season large quantities of ice are harvested and stored or shipped at this point, which combines the advantages of a high altitude, pure lake water, principally derived from springs in the neighborhood, and convenient transportation.

Living in Dryden: March 2004 Archives 2004