ambry

Example Sentences

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It is so difficult to uncloister you, that I regret not seeing you when you are out of your own ambry.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

There is a double Early English piscina in the south wall, and an ambry in the north.

From Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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

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.