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  • “Confound it! there are wine-vaults under the chapel!” answers downright Charles.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Sherrick: that Mr. Sherrick whose wine-vaults undermine Lady

    The Newcomes 2006

  • He took a great deal of trouble, he assured them, to import an article which could not be surpassed, if it could be equalled, in London, always visiting Epernay himself once a year for the purpose of going through the wine-vaults.

    Ayala's Angel 2004

  • Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my credentials as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time I have been a stone-mason, and also a great digger of ditches, canals and wells, wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • He took a great deal of trouble, he assured them, to import an article which could not be surpassed, if it could be equalled, in London, always visiting Epernay himself once a year for the purpose of going through the wine-vaults.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • At this many patriots rushed back into the burning town, burst open the shops and wine-vaults, and parted their booty among them.

    The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa Paul Barron Watson

  • Gilles, one of the numerous beautiful buildings in Caen now in partial ruin and occupied as warehouses, wine-vaults or workshops.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923

  • Gilles, one of the numerous beautiful buildings in Caen now in partial ruin and occupied as warehouses, wine-vaults or workshops.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 Gordon Home 1923

  • The war had now offered a new pretext for him to visit Don Marcelo's wine-vaults.

    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

  • Luis and I have some wine-vaults, than which there are no better in Spain, if we except those of Xeres.

    Part III.—Letters of My Brother 1917

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