"Have you seen to putting the best platters and ewers in the ambry?". From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
There is an ambry in the south wall near the east end, and the doorway is semicircular and of Norman character. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
So I opened the ambry, and within it was even more gloriously wrought than without; and there was nought therein, save. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
In the south wall there is a beautiful piscina, and in the north wall an ambry with a small stone penthouse; an octagonal baptismal font of remarkable design stands against the east wall of the aisle. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Coming to a fine carved ambry, he hesitated, then stood still. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
There is a double Early English piscina in the south wall, and an ambry in the north. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
After Communion and the blessing, we stripped the altar, deconsecrated it, emptied the ambry. From Wordnik.com. [Stand Firm] Reference
It is so difficult to uncloister you, that I regret not seeing you when you are out of your own ambry. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Betty Lamb found the ambry niche in the wall of the ruin at the side of the place where the altar had been. From Wordnik.com. [A Dozen Ways Of Love] Reference
He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
She knew him as certainly as if she had seen him standing before her again, the little lad of past years, or the infant cradled in the ambry of the ruined chancel. From Wordnik.com. [A Dozen Ways Of Love] Reference
The building is cruciform, of flint, dressed with Totternhoe and Caen stone, and has a square ambry, a very old piscina, and a double sedilia; the latter is E.E. Richard. From Wordnik.com. [Hertfordshire] Reference
The only furniture, excepting a washing-tub and a wooden press, called in Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
The only furniture, excepting a washing-tub, and a wooden press, called in Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
But before I went, I looked around, and espied an ambry fashioned in the wall of the bed-lane, and the door was half open; and the said ambry was wrought of the daintiest, all of gold and pearl and gems; and I said to myself: Herein is some treasure, and this is a tide of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
He had refused definitely to enter the atelier of the gentleman who pleased his clients by ingeniously simulating the grain of walnut; and though he had seen the old oaken ambry kicked out contemptuously into the farmyard, serving perhaps the necessities of hens or pigs, he would not apprentice himself to the masters of veneer. From Wordnik.com. [The Hill of Dreams] Reference
Fetch it from the ambry in the bower. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays] Reference
For ere it reached the ambry I came on it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays] Reference
A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
The vessels which the Sacred Species was kept were called indiscriminately capsa, pyxis, cuppa, turris, columba, and ciborium, and were themselves preserved either in a chamber in the sacristy (secretarium), in a niche in the wall or pillar (ambry), under an altar, or in other places designated hy the words diaconium, pastophorium, vestiarium, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
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