ambry

Example Sentences

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He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Below the hall is seen a small ambry or cupboard in the wall.

From The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 by Gladstone, William Henry

With that he restored the goblet to the secret shelf, put back the drawer, and shut the ambry door.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

At the east end of the church, on the gospel side of the site of the high altar, there is a recess in the wall, forming an ambry of elegant form.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.