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This was done by Stubberud, by fixing the door-frame into the wall in an oblique position just like a cellar-door at home.
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The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards his door.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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This was done by Stubberud, by fixing the door-frame into the wall in an oblique position just like a cellar-door at home.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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One rainy night, about eleven o'clock, a crowd of half-clothed women stopped outside of the cellar-door.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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Christina, an old dried-up woman, in the quaint, daintily clean dress of blue, emerged from the cellar-door, bringing with her a savory smell of frying ham and eggs.
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The farmer put the squashes on the ground close by the cellar-door ready for storage.
The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various
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The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards his door.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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I wonder they don't pull it down, 'said Horatia, as she picked her way over uneven and broken paving-stones to the house, which had steps, with no balustrade, leading down to an open cellar-door and up to another door.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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I was sitting down on the cellar-door, in the sunshine.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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By the open cellar-door stood Mrs. Wilson, and the cabman with her.
J. Cole Emma Gellibrand
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