The cellar was, of course, the place where wine and spirits were most likely to be found--let that be explored first.
But what intervened made its destruction probable, for this was a cellar full of brandy and rum casks.
Besides, the door of the cellar opens and shuts of itself every three or four minutes; which must certainly be the work of the devils seen every night wandering through the country in the shape of pyramidal flames.
You must boil the hen," said the dying man to the females, "and bring out of the cellar the bottle of wine which I have kept now for twenty years.
Her cook was an artist, and her wine-cellar excellent.
The ambassador, a fine connoisseur in wines, found mine excellent, and was delighted to hear that I had them from Count Algarotti, who was reputed as having the best cellar in Venice.
Be very careful not to put a lock to the door of the cellar to prevent its opening and shutting of itself; otherwise you would have an earthquake, which would destroy everything here.
To Angele no suggestion flashed that these flagons of muscadella had come from the cellar of the Seigneur of St. Ouen's, where they had been reserved for a certain royal visit.
The explanation was, that beneath the floor was a cellar in which a fire had been lit, and the coolie had piled on enough fuel to last through the night.
Aaron was pleased to discover that the natives thought nothing of digging a cellar and raising a barn in midwinter, and that workers could be easily hired.
Illustration] Alone for a few minutes, Aaron retired to the workshop in the cellar of the barn.
Realizing the danger of his mission, he may have thrown in the weapons between the cellar bars, ignoring my directions of previously ascertaining the presence of Jim at his post.
But repeated investigation of the cellar fails to disclose the weapons.
I hope you didn't throw the package through the cellar window when Jim wasn't at his post.
The other way leads from the outer wall by a very winding route to the cellar where the women are.
One way leads from the burned-out barracks to the cellar where the women lie hidden.
Patty slid from her seat, and, in her confusion, was aiming straight for the cellar door, when, alas!
Morning, master and mistress, A happy New Year, A pocket full of money, A cellar full of beer.
The ladder alluding to the store of apples, generally kept in a loft; and the can, doubtless, to the same going down into the cellar for the beer.
Tavia wants you to go down cellar to make sure," she called to the boys.
I have often been made aware of open cellar doors by a damp, musty smell that commonly proceeds from underground rooms, and have, I think, been saved from falling by this odd warning.
He was up late at night, wandering about the house from the cellar to the garret, so that, his light being seen flitting from window to window, the story got about that the old house was haunted.
The remains of his extensive wine cellar consisted of a multitude of empty bottles.
Then she was hunted into the cellar to find rats, and her life was one long punishment.
I can only remember a dark cellar where I seemed to belong, and children who drove and frightened me every time I went near the house.
Now he could see where he was going, and, darting out of the side door, he ran back to where he remembered the cellar steps into the porter's room to be.
Remember what I----" Peter Grimm put an end to the warning by reappearing from the cellar with a small demijohn in his hand.
I'll step down to the cellarand get a fresh bottle of it.
I went away in a dudgeon and marked off a cellar on my real estate, 30 feet by 18 feet, on the top of the bluff, near the edge of the western prairie.
He became reconciled to the crosses on the wall-paper, forgave me for not being a Scotchman, and I believe the run of my cellar would have made him a sincere convert to popery-- as long as the wine lasted.
The townspeople made a demonstration against the officer, and the colonel commanding the regiment stationed at Zabern locked a number of the civilians in the cellar of the barracks and kept them there all night.
Almost immediately machine guns began firing from the cellar windows and the first and second stories of the stables.
As they come up out of the cellar and go out from the hateful place, Ray breaks into bitter invective; but O'Meara lays a firm hand upon his arm.
And Lawyer O'Meara buttons his coat tightly about him and draws closer to the cellar wall, the better to protect himself from the drip, drip, of the rain.
Mr. O'Meara is saying, peering down from the edge of the cellar wall at the mound of earth and the protruding leg.
He had a duplicate key, and--I found that key in the old cellar beside the body of John Burrill.
I tell you what, Doctor, as you are already acquainted with the yellow-seal from my cellar and have passed a very sensible verdict upon it, how would it be for you to give it another trial here?
If I read further, I shall certainly come to a vaulted cellar that the devil once rode out of on a wine cask.
I do not know Mr. Piepenbrink, but I have the pleasure of knowing his wine; and so I repeat the assertion that Piepenbrink has better wine in his cellar than this here.
There were whole streets of nothing but such cellar rooms in which wretched people lived.
Oscar, go down cellar and get some coal," said Mrs. Preston one evening, when the fire was getting low.
On their return route, the boys were careful to avoid passing by the cellar from which Joseph had stolen the nuts.
On looking around, a moment after, he saw a man running up the cellar steps, and concluded that he, too, had better quicken his pace.
On their way, the boys came to a cellar which was occupied by a dealer in fruits and other refreshments.
The masculine element of the Room 18's Board of Monitors met that afternoon in the cellar of a recently burned tenement to discuss the situation.
I looks in the cellar und I had a 'fraid over it the whiles nothings stand in it on'y push-carts und boxes.
I seen him runnin' down Scannel Street, und I calls und says you likes you should see him in the school, on'y he runs by a cellar und don't says nothings.
From what I have observed during the day pretty nearly the entire lot, except the sentries, will be in that beer cellar across in an hour or so.
Just then the janitor came down, and Tish gave him a dollar for the use of the cellar and did not mention the furnace pipe.
The noise in the street was terrible by that time, but the cellar was quiet enough, save when now and then a fresh portion of the roof gave way.
However, as it was still very dark I evidently lost my sense of direction, and while peering into a cellar was suddenly shocked by feeling a revolver thrust against my back.
She went to the cellar wall and stood waiting, with a piece of charcoal in her hand.
For some time before that the cellar across had been filling up with the enemy, and the search for us had ceased.
I had an old army revolver that had belonged to my father, and of course Tish had her coal-cellar rifle, but Aggie had nothing more dangerous than a bayonet from the Mexican War.
I thought things had gone far enough, so I stepped into the cellar and spoke in ringing tones.
The runner was hidden in the cellar under the church, and he said the C.
Owing to that protection the grenades the enemy threw into the cellar did no harm whatever, save to waken Tish from a sound sleep.
I regret to say that he raised an immediate alarm, and that we were forced to retire behind our sarcophagus in the cellar for some time.
But whoever Grogan was he was still in some cellar probably, and by that time we were going very fast.
Streets were almost choked up with broken furniture, for the houses had been gutted from the cellar to the garret, the partitions torn down, and even the beds ripped and scattered to the winds, in the hope that gold might be found concealed.
