corner-cupboard

On the other side of the doorway is the pine corner-cupboard I bodged out of skip-wood containing spare blankets and Bushmills for cold nights.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

On the other side of the doorway is the pine corner-cupboard I bodged out of skip-wood containing spare blankets and Bushmills for cold nights.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

He opened his eyes, and upon my telling him where I was going he said it was a shame that such a youngster as I should go up there all alone; and when he had fastened up his stock and waist-belt he set off along with me, taking a drop from the sperrit-tub in a little flat bottle that stood in the corner-cupboard.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

Here is the cottage interior, the usual first flat, with the cloak upon the nail, the rosaries of onions, the gun and powder-horn and corner-cupboard; here is the inn (this drama must be nautical, I foresee Captain Luff and Bold Bob Bowsprit) with the red curtain, pipes, spittoons, and eight-day clock; and there again is that impressive dungeon with the chains, which was so dull to colour.

Memories and Portraits 2005

It was low ceilinged its walls hung with honey-coloured paper, and furnished with cosy armchairs, a lovely old corner-cupboard, a satinwood rent table under one window and small lamp-tables here and there.

A Kiss For Julie Neels, Betty 1996

A few antique chairs and tables, a mahogany highboy in excellent condition and an antique corner-cupboard of wild-cherry wood occupied prominent places among the collection.

Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

A corner-cupboard, knowingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

He hugged the despised china dog fondly to him, and carried it indoors to put in a place of honour in Granny Pyetangle's oak corner-cupboard -- where it looked out proudly from behind the glass doors, in company with the best tea-cups, a shepherdess tending a woolly lamb, two greyhounds on stony-white cushions, and Grandfather Pyetangle's horn snuff-box.

Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

Benson had a sort of corner-cupboard in the fourth, that might, perhaps, have accommodated a mouse with a small family; and to Ashburner and Le Roi were assigned two small chambers in the fifth.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

He crossed the room and opened a corner-cupboard, stepping inside.

Null-ABC H. Beam Piper 1934