back-kitchen

But hardly had they stumbled through the low doorway into the back-kitchen when a fresh hubbub arose inside — more shouts for help.

Westward Ho! 2007

And now, my dear boys and girls, I think I perceive behind that dark scene of the back-kitchen (which is just a simple flat, painted stone-color, that shifts in a minute,) bright streaks of light flashing out, as though they were preparing a most brilliant, gorgeous, and altogether dazzling illumination, with effects never before attempted on any stage.

Burlesques 2006

Sally went to fetch a lantern from the back-kitchen, but her brother said, ‘You won’t want a light.

Wessex Tales 2006

York egorge on a threshold, and clasping a large back-kitchen key?

Burlesques 2006

And before I had ceased wondering — for if such things go on, we might ring the church bells, while sitting in our back-kitchen — little Gwenny Carfax came, with a grave and sullen face.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The cruelty of this man is a thing it makes me sick to speak of; enough that when the poor baby fell (without attempt at cry or scream, thinking it part of his usual play, when they tossed him up, to come down again), the maid in the oven of the back-kitchen, not being any door between, heard them say as follows, — ‘If any man asketh who killed thee, Say ’twas the

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

She did not even evade the haunted back-kitchen, nor the vault-like cellars.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Annie took a many of them, all that she could find herself, and all the boys would bring her; and she made a great hutch near the fire, in the back-kitchen chimney-place.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

'Mr. Moore, a lady called to inquire after you: none of the women were about: it is washing day, and the maids are over the crown of the head in soap-suds in the back-kitchen; so I asked her to step up.'

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

My father and Matthew are at the mill; Mark is at school; the servants are in the back-kitchen;

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004