cubby-holes

What with my wife, and babies, and lodgers, and the various cubby-holes into which I had fitted them, my mind's eye had become narrow-angled, and I could not quite take in all of my own room at once.

MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS 2010

Holmes ran an analytic eye over the signs of her passage through her parents 'home: The drawer in the small inlaid table near the front door was ajar; the various decorative jars and boxes inhabiting the shelves in the morning room had all been disturbed, as well as the cubby-holes and drawers of her mother's writing desk in the front window.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Holmes ran an analytic eye over the signs of her passage through her parents 'home: The drawer in the small inlaid table near the front door was ajar; the various decorative jars and boxes inhabiting the shelves in the morning room had all been disturbed, as well as the cubby-holes and drawers of her mother's writing desk in the front window.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Dal worked through the maze of cubby-holes in the computer room with growing hopelessness.

Star Surgeon Alan Edward Nourse 1960

I'm just dying to see all the little cubby-holes and closets.

The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

These cists or cubby-holes range in size from a foot to 5 feet in diameter, and are nearly always on a level of the floor, although in some instances they extend below it.

Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 Cosmos Mindeleff

Such cubby-holes were not for him, he disdainfully reflected.

Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

The largest are 25 and even 30 feet in diameter, and from this size range down to 5 or 6 feet and thence down to little cubby-holes or storage cists.

Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 Cosmos Mindeleff

Not little cubby-holes under the roof but in generous, well-lighted, nicely-floored affairs that less reverent generations have turned into smoking dens, studios and ballrooms.

Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

It has four little secret cubby-holes, opened by hidden springs, that Mother says were probably used by the Roman Catholics to hide pages of their mass-books during the days of persecution.

The Inn at the Red Oak Latta Griswold