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Example sentences for "cellars"

Lexicographically close words:
cellar; cellarage; cellarer; cellaress; cellaret; celle; celled; celles; cellier; celliers
  1. Descending, accordingly, into the Dumb Class in its Stockport Cellars and Poor-Law Bastilles, have we not to announce that they also are hitherto unexampled in the History of Adam's Posterity?

  2. The harvests produced corn in excessive abundance; the cellars were filled with wine when the vintage had been gathered in.

  3. It covers an area of about two acres, is five stories and an attic in height, and has two cellars underneath.

  4. His cellars were situated on the declivity of East Sixth Street, on the road to Observatory Hill.

  5. This modern Tavern was part of the offices of Craven House, and the adjoining stabling belonged to the mansion; the extensive cellars still remain, though blocked up.

  6. Far more celebrated was the Mourning Bush Tavern, in the cellars of which have been traced the massive foundations of Aldersgate, and the portion of the City Wall which adjoins them.

  7. Then he looked round at the restaurant with a refreshed air of interest, to see if there were any other traces of that singular artistic taste which puts the sugar in the salt-cellars and the salt in the sugar-basin.

  8. Yes; there were two salt-cellars quite full.

  9. This strip periodically disappeared when protracted seasons of heavy rain came, or when spring floods so rapidly swelled the river that the latter invaded the cellars of Libby.

  10. Beneath these floors were three cellars of the same dimensions as the rooms above them, and, like them, divided from each other by massive blank walls.

  11. Run, Molly, my love; get the salt-cellars for the Highlanders.

  12. It still remains a mystery to me how the moth finds its way into the cellars of our houses, or how it can exist in utter darkness and perpetuate its species from year to year in such a secret manner.

  13. This creature finds its way into dry cellars and lays its eggs in the corks of bottles which are unprotected by wax or leaden capsules.

  14. Moldy or musty eggs are caused by accidentally wet cases or damp cellars and ice houses.

  15. The cellars and galleries are very stately.

  16. These lights fell into disuse when gas became popular, and were stowed away in boxes and cellars and lumber-rooms; while others, still less fortunate, were actually thrown away or sold to the ragman for a few shillings.

  17. Later, they removed to the building on Aliso Street once occupied by the Medical College, where the cellars proved serviceable for a winery.

  18. So Geoffrey was left in his prison to whatever comfort meditation might bring him; and the monks of Oyster-le-Main took off their gowns, and made themselves ready for another visit to the wine-cellars of Wantley Manor.

  19. At intervals stood salt-cellars and pepper boxes, the latter resembling in shape the three little domes upon the present National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.

  20. This precaution was taken on account of the fiendish women belonging to the Commune, who were going about pouring petroleum into the cellars and then throwing down lighted matches.

  21. In the course of a few months about fifty agitators were expelled, bales of literature confiscated, organizations dissolved, meetings dismissed, gatherings prohibited, and the Socialist agitation pushed into cellars and back rooms.

  22. That is why the Socialists number among their adherents all classes and all conditions of men, from Anatole France, most fastidious of literary aristocrats, to gaunt and hungry proletarians who infest the cellars and garrets of ancient Paris.

  23. She rather liked the worst of them best: but she made him go down into the cellars and look at the furnaces; she exacted from him a rigid inquest of the plumbing.

  24. It was no uncommon thing for the cellars of all the houses to be filled with water, and even now, I believe, some portion of the neighbourhood is not unfrequently rendered damp and uncomfortable.

  25. In the cellars under the Forum, in Marble-street, there is a very deep well which is at all times full; this well drains the premises.

  26. He descended a short flight of steps that lay there, and which led down to the cellars of the old mansion.

  27. Now--quickly," whispered Quarles; and the man who had followed us to the cellars had struck with a stout piece of iron between the door and its framework.

  28. Every flag in the cellars has been taken up," I answered; "and all the ground underneath the house has been dug up.

  29. You said the cellars had been dug up, so they are of no interest, and I warrant the Bryants have already searched in every likely and unlikely place.

  30. The inner defence, running through the orchards, just covered the village, and was connected both with the outer line and with the cellars of the houses by numerous communication trenches.

  31. No attack had been expected in the wild weather, and the enemy were in their cellars and dugouts just sitting down to breakfast.

  32. D Company, wild with excitement, hunted them through the cellars and lanes and made a great slaughter.

  33. Your cellars are full of wine; we've lots of money, keys, ropes, and a horse.

  34. The cellars of the Dustbury prison, though by no means eligible residences, were not half so bad as the most comfortable of the lath and canvass dungeons to which we have alluded.

  35. The cellars at Pomfret Court were holy ground, entered taper in hand, a sanctuary, where none save the elect might wander.

  36. The main feature of the Pomfret cellars was a stone chamber in the form of a pentagon, from which branched five passages lined with bins.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cellars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.