linen-closet

He's resigned to be leaving a home where the inside of the linen-closet doors are marked with his graduated height and that of his mother, his siblings and his children.

Century-Old Throwback on Staten Island Melanie Lefkowitz 2011

Ultimate capitulation on the part of the offender, had been followed by solitude in the linen-closet, bread and water and a lecture to all, of vindictive length, in which Miss Griffin had used expressions: Firstly, “I believe you all of you knew of it;” Secondly, “Every one of you is as wicked as another;” Thirdly, “A pack of little wretches.”

The Haunted House 2007

Ultimate capitulation on the part of the offender, had been followed by solitude in the linen-closet, bread and water and a lecture to all, of vindictive length, in which Miss Griffin had used expressions: Firstly, “I believe you all of you knew of it;” Secondly, “Every one of you is as wicked as another;” Thirdly, “A pack of little wretches.”

The Haunted House 2007

Florac owned that Fortune had been very unkind to him at Baden; and, indeed, she had not only emptied his purse, but his portmanteaus, jewel-box, and linen-closet — the contents of all of which had ranged themselves on the red and black against

The Newcomes 2006

Ultimate capitulation on the part of the offender, had been followed by solitude in the linen-closet, bread and water and a lecture to all, of vindictive length, in which Miss Griffin had used expressions: Firstly, “I believe you all of you knew of it;” Secondly, “Every one of you is as wicked as another;” Thirdly, “A pack of little wretches.”

The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

After all that had passed in the linen-closet, what escape would there be for him?

John Caldigate 2004

After that scene in the linen-closet, he could not leave his country without a word either to Julia or to aunt Polly.

John Caldigate 2004

He never said that he would marry her; but when he left the linen-closet the two ladies understood that the thing was arranged.

John Caldigate 2004

Bolton shrug his shoulders uneasily when he heard all the details of the engagement in the linen-closet.

John Caldigate 2004

Had he been more communicative, he might have perhaps saved himself from that scene in the linen-closet.

John Caldigate 2004