The scullery door opened momentarily and sent a beam of warm, yellow light up the road, shut again behind the man, and forthwith Hoopdriver rushed the machines towards the gate.
The yellow light of thescullery door suddenly flashed upon the cobbles again.
Several minutes later I came upon her in the scullery with the greater portion of a crash towel stuffed into her mouth.
Once Gypsy seized the basket of clothespins with her teeth, and rising on her hind legs, pawing the air with her fore feet followed Kitty clear up to the scullery steps.
That was never meant for the poor ill-used scullery boy of Master Fitzwarren, the mercer in the Minories!
I had better be thescullery boy of good Master Fitzwarren, although his cook does ill-treat me and lead me a dog's life, than the vagabond idle boy which I am now.
So thisscullery boy became a rich merchant, and being just and honourable as well as wealthy, he gained the respect and love of all with whom he had to do.
There is no hardship in washing a couple of hundred pots in hot water and in a warm sculleryon the most inclement day in January.
If you have a girl-gardener, why should you not give her the freedom of the scullery sink where the hot water is laid on?
She saw Ciccio rearing his yellow bicycle against the wall, and going with his head forward along the narrow, dark way of the back yard, to the scullery door.
At a quarter to seven Miss Pinnegar came down, and went into the scullery to make her tea.
Slowly she walked up the back steps, and through the scullery into the kitchen.
She had noticed yesterday that a few tiny corkscrew tendrils had come right through some cracks in the scullery ceiling and all the windows of the lean-to had a thick frill of ruffled green.
On one side the grass patch was bordered by the scullery and wash-house and over this whitewashed lean-to there grew a knotted vine.
They heard the latch of the scullery door lift and she came in.
He lit a pool of paraffine on the scullery floor, and instantly a nest of snaky, wavering blue flame became agog for prey.
Feeling a little disorganized by her hilarity and a shocked expression that had come to the face of cousin Miriam, he made some indistinct excuse and went out through the back room and scullery into the little garden.
Plenty of time," he assured himself, and took the lamp which was to explain the whole affair, and went to the head of the staircase between the scullery and the parlour.
He would have the paraffine can upset and the shop lamp, as if awaiting refilling, at a convenient distance in the scullery ready to catch.
And moving with the slow reluctance of a deeply offended woman, she began to pile together the simple apparatus of their recent meal, for transportation to the scullery sink.
If you won't marry me you shall drink this and become my scullery maid--my hideous scullery maid--and wash up for ever in the lonely tower.
It was just possible that on a day of complete calamity Jane should have slithered off thescullery roof into the water-butt.
He looked for Jane in the hothouse and the cucumber frames, and under the rhubarb, and on the scullery roof, and in the water butt.
Such a point was soon found, in the shape of a small window, opening into a sort of scullery at the back of the house.
He is a stupid fellow--not to be trusted with any important business--that is why he does the scullery work!
And, when Rushie had gone into the scullery to wash up the supper things, she marshalled Farnish into a certain easy chair by the corner of the hearth, and proceeded to lay down the law to him in no purposeless fashion.
When he had gone into the scullery Jeckie, who was folding up the cloth, turned to her father.
You're a grumpy sort of cousin at times, Bob," she cried, and betook herself to the scullery and more entertaining company.
As he fronted the bacon and the flower, Helen carefully shut the scullery door.
From a very long and very exciting letter the following excerpts may be culled: "I saw the fat old servant in the scullery at once.
The door between the kitchen and the scullery was half-closed; in the aperture he again had a momentary, but distinct, glimpse of the eye of Mrs. Butt.
After a few minutes' cogitation, he tip-toed down the path and round to the back of the house; but the scullery door was inflexible in its inhospitality.
You take those bottles into the scullery and be quick about it," was Mrs. Bindle's greeting as he entered the kitchen.
The continuous banging upon the scullery door as she proceeded leisurely to undress was as sweet music to her ears.
As Mrs. Hopton emptied upon him the vials of her anger, he had slowly retreated towards the scullery door.
Mrs. Sawney appeared, as if propelled from her scullery door by some unseen force.
Realising that in swift action alone lay his salvation, Bindle dashed across the room, opened the door leading to the scullery and then the scullery door itself.
Soon after nine on the Tuesday morning after Sandy had constituted himself a casus belli, Mrs. Bindle emerged from her scullery carrying a basketful of clothes, on the top of which lay a handful of clothes-pegs.
Each time Mrs. Bindle emerged from her scullery that morning, her two relentless neighbours appeared as if by magic, and oblique pleasantries ebbed and flowed above her head.
She then left by the scullery door, locking it, just as Mrs. Bindle had done, and carrying with her the key.
With a panther-like movement she dashed across to the scullery door, slammed it to and turned the key.
I've seen him hanging round my scullerydoor before.
A light went up in thescullery window, of which the blind was drawn.
I shall open the scullery door and leave it a bit open like, and when he comes in I'll be ready for him behind the door with this.
And one should make acquaintance with the people themselves, from the grey-haired old baron, the head of the house, down to the scullery man and the cellarer's boy and the stable lads.
Think you, John de Fulm, Earl of Buckingham, that you be talking to some comely scullery maid?
Were thou born out of wedlock, the son of a hostler and a scullery maid, still would I love thee, and honor thee, and cleave to thee.
As he had sacked this castle some two years since, he was familiar with its internal plan, and so he knew that through the scullery he could reach a small antechamber above, which let directly into the great hall.
He came once more to the kitchen, and noticed that between it and the scullery was a closed door--the only door that remained in the house.
Leaving Armstrong to keep watch at his window, Warrender, in his stockinged feet, stole down the stairs, and peeped into each of the rooms and the kitchen and scullery in turn.
He had once been a buttons who looked down on scullery boys, but how gladly would he be a scullery boy forever if he could escape to the rear where he would hear no more bullets!
Lidia, the scullery maid, stole out of the back door of her master's house.
In the house of Aurelius Lucanus dwelt a small scullery maid, who assisted the slaves in the kitchen, doing all the dirty work and being struck and sworn at for any mistake.
As I stood on one side I had a view of the kitchen or scullery with the servants, and on the other side through an open doorway in the wall, I had a view of the lawn and flower garden, and the glass casements of the dining room.
He went through to the scullery at the back of the kitchen to wash his hands.
In her anger she did not see the sloppy dishclout on the scullery chair, on which she sank exhausted by her rage.
Mr. Gourlay passed on to the inner yard, which was close to the scullery door.
When the boy, peering from the window above, saw his father disappear through the scullery door, he stole out.
III At the Sign of the Rosemary Bush WHEN the cottage was originally built—about one hundred and thirty years ago—it was probably just two rooms upstairs, one going out of the other, and a kitchen and scullery downstairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scullery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bakery; caboose; cookery; cuisine; galley; kitchen
