Does he call our scullery-maids and stable-boys "representative American middle class?". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
The scullery was a mine of all the minerals of living. From Wordnik.com. [Cider With Rosie]
In the scullery is a mechanism used to operate the portcullis. From Wordnik.com. [Quazen] Reference
They're below the club...the scullery is their natural habitat. From Wordnik.com. [From Twitter 05-03-2010] Reference
In the scullery was a sweeping-brush, and the sight of it tempted her to sweep up the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Dick and Brownie] Reference
He stepped into the big, dark scullery, meaning to creep across to the back door, open it and escape through the grounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of Spiggy Holes]
A kitchen, very probably the mysterious region of watery activities commonly known as a scullery, quite certainly a butler's pantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference
According to his directions I took the tray down to a kind of scullery on the floor below. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
He went into the scullery at the back of the house. From Wordnik.com. ['Fall of Giants'] Reference
I began to wish I had been brought up as a scullery maid. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference
In fact, I must be free at any time to inspect the scullery. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
A door led into a small inner room over the kitchen scullery. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
But that would be after the chores in the scullery were over. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Even if it means running away to London and becoming a scullery maid. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
Antony, remembering the box of wood in the scullery, bethought himself of. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
It led into a tiny scullery or kitchen, provided solely with a small range. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"I agreed to be your bridesmaid, notyour scullery maid!" she said with fury. From Wordnik.com. [Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids] Reference
His preparations made, he returned momentarily to the scullery to fill the teapot. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Then in he rushes into the scullery, washes his hands, runs back again in a jiffy. From Wordnik.com. [J. Cole] Reference
But there must be scullery-maid's work in literature -- in journalism, isn't there?. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
He would have listened behind a kitchen door to a pair of chattering scullery-maids. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
He watched Antony disappear into the scullery, to reappear with a bundle of sticks and a log. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
There were two on each side and one at the end opposite the entrance, which was a kitchen and scullery. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
You thought, you aristocrats, that you could have the fine houses and we could do all the scullery work. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
The warrant officers are allowed a living-room, kitchen, and scullery, with three bedrooms and a bathroom. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Sometimes the parents threw dinner parties on Saturday nights, and Tessa worked as a sort of scullery maid. From Wordnik.com. [’] Reference
I took the returned wanderer up in both hands, and carried him into the hotel scullery, and got milk for him. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Th e scullery had a copper with a fire grate underneath, but it was used only on bath night, which was Saturday. From Wordnik.com. ['Fall of Giants'] Reference
The Duke of Montrose, as master of the horse to the King, performed the office of serjeant of the silver scullery. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
At her words a sound came from the scullery, and the cook bounded into the doorway and stood looking with a dark eye. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
The married soldiers have a living-room, scullery, and one, two, or three bedrooms according to the size of their families. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Awaiting no reply, he went into the little scullery, where the fire by which he had cooked his midday meal was still alight. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The actual area for bathing is something like the sink in an English scullery, but level with the floor and on an enlarged scale. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Then followed a nondescript female who charred about the house and did scullery-work, and sometimes, in a borrowed dress, served at table. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"It is time," she says at last, washing her small hands under the scullery tap, and then reaching for a hat hanging on the kitchen dresser. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
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