ambry
Example Sentences
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She knew him as certainly as if she had seen him standing before her again, the little lad of past years, or the infant cradled in the ambry of the ruined chancel.
From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Lily Dougall
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 Horace Walpole
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 George Bell
He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
With that he restored the goblet to the secret shelf, put back the drawer, and shut the ambry door.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
