lumber-room

• “Not until after a long search did we find the oar in a disused attic lumber-room of odds and ends.”

  Chapter 19

• “That which my son himself indicated -- that of the cupboard of the lumber-room.”

  Fictionaut: Sole Music

• “There was one singular exception, however, for he had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or anyone else to enter.”

  Fictionaut: Sole Music

• “The lumber-room of Steinberg's mind was filled with the objects of the 20th century.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Steinberg's Witty Lines

• “The young girl ran lightly off to the lumber-room and reappeared with a bundle of small wood, which she gallantly threw on the fire to revive it.”

  The Purse

• “Muslin curtains, fairly white, carefully screened this lumber-room — a _capharnaum_, as the”

  The Purse

• “Miss Wozenham out of her small income and her losses doing so much for her poor old father, and keeping a brother that had had the misfortune to soften his brain against the hard mathematics as neat as a new pin in the three back represented to lodgers as a lumber-room and consuming a whole shoulder of mutton whenever provided!”

  Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

• “Deserving scholars still occasionally suffer for being too closely linked to de Manian theory — particularly if they are young and untenured, and have the temerity to demonstrate interest in something that is supposed to have been consigned to the lumber-room of the past.”

  Introduction

• “Felice Charmond was a practised hand at make-ups, as well she might be; and she had done her utmost in padding and painting Fitzpiers with the old materials of her art in the recesses of the lumber-room.”

  The Woodlanders

• “Within was a lumber-room, containing abandoned furniture of all descriptions, built up in piles which obscured the light of the windows, and formed between them nooks and lairs in which a person would not be discerned even should an eye gaze in at the door.”

  The Woodlanders

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