There was rarely anything left, and sometimes the cupboard was bare before the end of the winter; whatever was eatable had been eaten by the tune spring came on, and most often father and son knew what it was like to go hungry.
At last the visitor was allowed to see what the cupboard contained--a carefully combed and smoothed dark brown fox skin.
This cupboard is kept carefully locked, and Arni carries the key on a string which hangs around his neck.
The pipes had better be kept in a cupboard for a week or two, till in other and easier respects Ernest should have proved his steadfastness.
Not that there was any cupboard love in his little sweet--she was a bundle of affection.
Then, with the rather bitter cynicism of the old, he wondered for a second whether it was not cupboard love which made Irene put up with him.
The top of the chest being in two pieces the cupboard just fits on the hind portion while the front half lifts off, and so I am enabled to stow a lot of extra pewter in the chest.
I hunted about and advertised for an oak cupboard with glass doors but could find nothing suitable so I bought the chest shown.
Pursuing my investigation I turned out an oblong basket-work pattern dish with quaint fret edge and with every evidence of old age, which had been in my cupboard for nearly ten years, and then realised that it also was early Bow.
That some time ago I saw Mr. Clode replace a packet in the cupboard in the rector's library.
On the table by his side stood a single candle, and by its light Clode saw that the little cupboard among the books was open.
What if so intimate a friend of the rector's as this Smith seemed to be should tell him of his curate's visit to the cupboard and the excuse which on the spur of the moment he had invented?
He has made a mess among the papers, I fear, and damaged the cupboarddoor in forcing it, but that is the extent of the mischief.
By the way," the curate added, "I have a key to this cupboard at my lodgings.
He only discovered my presence in the room when the cupboard door was open, and his agitation on observing me struck me as strange.
The curate muttered something which was inaudible, and, raising his hand to the book-case, locked the cupboard door and put the key in his pocket.
Assuring himself by a steady look that the windows were shuttered, he rose and, quietly crossing the room, as a man might who wished to examine a book, he stood before the little cupboard among the shelves.
He took something--a key Jack judged by what followed--from his pocket, and with it he swiftly threw open a cupboard among the books.
It has many drawers as well as a cupboard underneath, and, for its size, may be said to represent the maximum of usefulness.
Failing a hanging cupboard in the wall, a simple plain cupboard should be built and painted white.
Another variety of corner cupboard made to stand on the floor has a glazed upper storey.
The more pretentious pieces, when not in actual use, adorned the court cupboard and sideboard cheek by jowl with the family silver or pewter.
Such a cupboard at least strikes no false note, and is greatly to be preferred to a modern wardrobe or one of another period.
William and Mary period bureau of simple outline surmounted by a panelled cupboard with bookshelves.
When I die, an exact description of its topography shall be left in a cupboard with a key, inscribed on which these words, "C.
At a moment when the office was empty of patrons Mr. Drowan stepped into the cupboard for a moment, as though searching for something.
He stepped into a cupboard close to the counter, prepared for the coming of Tripps.
A spring gave, the picture came slowly away from the frame, and disclosed a small cupboard behind.
In this cupboard were a few books, an old silver-handled pistol, and a packet.
This durable wall-covering was broken by an immense wall-bed, the doors of which were now closed, and a cupboard through the glass doors of which all sorts of china and silverware might be seen.
You had thrown the toys into the cupboard too hastily, or you had not fastened the door, and the lamb's legs stuck out.
Until Monday," Bessie said; and her eyes roved unconsciously to the cupboard under the bookcase where the toys lived, but it was fast shut and locked, and gave no sign of its hid treasures.
Her mind was filled with blithe anticipations founded on that dear little naughty boy and his incongruous cupboard of playthings in her uncle's study.
Master Justus was already at the cupboard dragging out the toys, and her uncle stood and looked down at her with a pleased, benevolent face.
Nothing rich, nothing rare or ancient--only the tail and woolly hind-quarters of a toy lamb extruded from the imperfectly closed door of a cupboard below a bookcase.
From this cupboard he took some glasses--and something to fill them agreeably withal.
So saying, he opened the door of a small cupboard made in the wall, and cleverly hidden by a picture of "John Knox imploring Mary Stuart to abjure the Catholic faith.
At the next committee meeting he made more money and made it more easily, and my friend was safely locked up in the cupboard before the committee arrived.
All the doors were closed and locked, including the cupboard door.
The Belcovitch workshop was another of the landmarks of the past that had undergone no change, despite the cupboard with glass doors and the slight difference in the shape of the room.
A cupboard with glass doors, such as we left behind in Poland, and we have hung the shelves with pink paper and made loops for silver forks to rest in--it makes me feel as if I had just cut off my tresses.
Go in and see them, and thecupboard with glass doors.
I had always suspected that Mrs. Price knew where certain items from my store cupboard had gone one winter’s night when the cottage was uninhabited and the kitchen window forced.
But there's little enough for twa here,' she added, going to the cupboard where the remainder of the flitch was discovered, as well as the other little comforts and supplies with which Joseph had provided himself.
The cupboard contained pickles, spices, and a good many bottles; for his fare was dainty, and far different from the vigorous parritch on which he professed to subsist.
I got up and groped around in the cupboard for a piece of dry bread and ate it.
Therefore it came quite natural for me to get a small dish from the cupboardand begin to serve out a portion of Mrs. Mason's preserves for my father.
Sow the seed thickly and then keep the dish in a dark cupboard until the seedlings are about two inches high.
For the simplest and smallest kind cigar boxes can be used and the furniture made of cork, for which directions are given later; or a couple of low shelves in a bookcase or cupboard will do.
Imagine me, as I go to bed, falling over a blood-stained remorse; opening that cupboard in the cerebellum and being welcomed by the spirit of your murdered uncle.
MY DEAR CUMMY,--The cupboard has not yet turned up, and I was hanging on to be able to say it had.
Your cupboard has come, and it is most beautiful: it is certainly worth a lot of money, and is just what we have been looking for in all the shops for quite a while: so your present falls very pat.
At the end of the room, near the fireplace, a large cupboard used for keeping the crockery was wide open.
This meal was not for herself; for in thecupboard I have found the remains of her own dinner.
Evidently the widow looked upon him as a man of superior rank to her own; for in the cupboard is a table-cloth still very clean.
That one little attic room of his and that closet which was at once Mother Hubbard's cupboard and his clothes press, could never do anything for the comfort of his little sister.
If the cupboard should play its part now, the dog would go without any.
Winthrop, as he brought out of the cupboard his bits of stores; a plate with the end of a loaf of bread, a little pitcher of milk, and another plate with some remains of cold beefsteak.
As soon as he was gone, Boots and the Princess were in the cupboardhunting for the heart, but the more they looked for it the less they found it.
Well," said the Giant, "if you must know, it lies away yonder in the cupboard against the wall.
When the Giant heard that he said no more about it, but after a while he saw how the cupboard was all decked about with flowers and garlands; and he asked who it was that had done that.
So she decked the cupboard with flowers and garlands, and when the time came for the Giant to come home, Boots crept under the bed again.
