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  • He pressed the call-button, and, when his room-steward answered, turned Michael over to him to be taken down below and tied up in the crowded cubby-hole.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • In the first year of my marriage I discovered a dusty cubby-hole off Belfast's High Street – Atlantic Records.

    Fats Waller by Michael Longley 2011

  • Though the cook had a cubby-hole of a state-room opening off from the cabin, in the cabin itself he had never dared to linger or to be seen, and he flitted to and fro, once or twice a day, a timid spectre.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • Shop No. 19 is a dark, dingy cubby-hole near Gaushala market on Mata Road in the heart of Gurgaon, the capital's gleaming satellite city that is home to the plush offices of Indian and foreign multinational corporations and luxury gated communities that house the executives working in them.

    India's Labor Pains Go From Bad To Worse 2011

  • She grabbed the Magic 8 Ball off the bottom cubby-hole.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • In his cubby-hole at the rear sat the Globe's city editor, the only other human thing in sight.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • She grabbed the Magic 8 Ball off the bottom cubby-hole.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • In the city editor's cubby-hole, Bill Rankin was talking exultantly to his chief.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • We thought it was pretty lousy that rides we’ve been going on for years and taking the bag on, or stowing it in a cubby-hole on the platform, now suddenly charged a buck each.

    Six Flags Requires You To Check All Bags Before Each Rollercoaster For $1 Per Ride - The Consumerist 2008

  • She grabbed the Magic 8 Ball off the bottom cubby-hole.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

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