sub-cellar

Down in the dark sub-cellar he soothed his ruffled feelings with

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

Beneath the cave was a carefully concealed seven-foot sub-cellar which they had also excavated.

The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben

Ah Moy's chief interest in the establishment lay in its cavernous sub-cellar, where he conducted gaming tables and a smoking-'parlor 'with flattering success.

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

They were the people he wanted, the people given up by expert religionists, and he haid, "They are the people to be saved; we are going to lift society up from the very bottom; we are going to begin in the sub-cellar"; well, he and his followers went into the lowest slums of London.

The Modern Troubadour 1925

It was a brief trip to the Red Spark, on foot through the sub-cellar arcade to where, under Park Circle 29, we went up in a vertical lift to the roof.

Wandl the Invader Ray Cummings 1922

A drop of a thousand feet; we shot downward past all the deserted levels, past the ground-level, the undersurface transportation lanes, the sub-river tubes, the sub-cellar, down to the very bottom of the city.

Wandl the Invader Ray Cummings 1922

He turned around, running now toward the castle, trying to make the sub-cellar in which he had been fastened for the night; and when he finally found himself under those dusty cobwebs, he felt as though he were in the most luxurious salon, and he devoutly blessed the good workmanship of the castle builders.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

This would be a sub-cellar, she reasoned, and drew back, but the clattering feet of the rat behind her scared away all judgment and she plunged downward; the door closed heavily behind her.

In the Border Country Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

As the door of this sub-cellar was broken, like all the others in the building, a pile of boxes and furniture was heaped in the entrance way.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

Which was not surprising, since it had been lowered through a trap into a sub-cellar of the house on the Road of the Good Children, and the trapdoor covered with rubbish.

Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917