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Examples
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Mizelle pressed on, though, and went through a door into what he called the den.
Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001
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Mr. Mahon had come into the house and was now in the little study, which he called his den.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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But I stay on wid Miss Sallie, as I called her den.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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They dug down six feet, and did not get halfway to the 'lodge,' as they called the den.
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890
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They were in the area that on a commercial vessel would have been designated a commons but that Flinx domestically called his den.
Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988
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They were in the area that on a commercial vessel would have been designated a commons but that Flinx domestically called his den.
Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988
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A place is marked out at one side or end of the ground called the den.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie Hubbell Bancroft
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A second door in the rear hall leads into a smaller chamber, filled with hunting implements, etc., which FLAMM calls his den.
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904
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He had been driven to this somewhat frowsty practice by the fact that he could not possibly sit in any room that had ever been called a den.
If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson Barry Pain 1896
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It was some time in the small hours that he entered his house burglariously by forcing open the window of a room that had once been called a den.
If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson Barry Pain 1896
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