How To Use Sculler In A Sentence
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I like worthless, as the pinche, what the English called the scullery maid, was quite often a retarded girl (or sometimes boy) that did the lowest, dirtiest sorts of jobs in the kitchen and was often referred to (in English) as that worthless girl or boy.
Flowers in the Desert
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He picked up a twig from the ground and scraped the dirt off his boots before stepping into a small scullery and calling out.
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Junior scullers Freya Porteous and Jenny Addison won the Women's Novice Double Sculls.
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She followed him into the scullery, and combed her hair before the handbreadth of mirror by the back door.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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I suggest you introduce yourself and get into the scullery.
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I need to hear for myself why he was in the scullery that morning.
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As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.
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The paved back court, under which the kitchen and scullery were situated, was to include at its northern end a ‘seat or small building’ with deal columns.
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Achieving this state of godliness was left to the servants whose main domain was the kitchen and scullery.
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York City Rowing Club had 12 crews and scullers gaining trophies in the small boats Head of the River Race, which was postponed a week because of the high water level on the River Ouse.
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The fool was a very humble person, haunting kitchen and scullery, messing almost with the dogs, and liable, when malapert, to a whipping.
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She enumerated the many rooms that were in the house: those that were covered with carpets, the margins whereof had to be beeswaxed: those others, only partially covered with rugs, which had to be entirely waxed: the upper rooms were uncarpeted and unrugged, and had, therefore, to be scrubbed: the basement, consisting of two red-flagged kitchens and a scullery, had also to be scoured out.
Mary, Mary
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Not to be outdone by the girls, the men's senior sculler won two events.
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There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.
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As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.
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Johnston saw off fierce competition from hopefuls from all over the country, including scullers from Henley, Headington and other prestigious rowing clubs and schools.
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It was whitewashed and had two bedrooms upstairs and a sitting room downstairs, plus a sort of kitchen and a little scullery.
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More recently Holmes had been a coach and a competitive sculler.
Double Olympic gold medal winner Andy Holmes dies
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Small, roll-up curtains reveal four colorful rooms behind the facade, one each for the preening stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe downstairs, and two upstairs for their harrumphing father Don Magnifico, the down-at-heel Baron of Montefiascone, while sweet and sprightly Angelina gets the cinders and the scullery in the middle.
'La Cenerentola' Sparkles on the Paris Stage
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I was bored, and those silly ninnies you call scullery maids are no fun at all.
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In earlier finals, German single sculler Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski ended Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch's Olympic dominance, beating the two-time defending gold medalist by nearly four seconds.
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The role, though dull, was not a useless one, for Mrs Ruddle, with a large knife in her hand, was standing at the scullery door as though prepared to carry out a butcherly kind of post-mortem upon whatever might be brought up from the cellar.
Busman's Honeymoon
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So when a dirty dish sends Valentine down to the scullery to fire the imperfect, immigrant maid responsible, he finds himself drawn into the seedier, more passionate side of the jazz age.
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York City Rowing Club host their final event of the year on Sunday when more than 350 crews and scullers will compete in the York Chambers Small Boats Head Rowing Race.
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But achieving this state of godliness was left to the servants whose main domain was the kitchen and scullery.
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Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched.
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The flagged rear hall leads to a moderately sized kitchen, scullery and separate wine cellar with 18 arched storage bays.
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The property contains a living room, kitchen, scullery and a bathroom while three bedrooms and an attic conversion with Velux windows lie upstairs.
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In the kitchen, which was kalsomined, shone the few scullery utensils.
The Quest
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Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum, gained retarded access to the kitchen through the subadjacent scullery, ignited a lucifer match by friction, set free inflammable coal gas by turningon the ventcock, lit a high flame which, by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a portable candle.
Ulysses
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Intriguingly there are three generations of kitchens and sculleries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The parlours, scullery and servant's quarters all needed to be dug up and damp-proofed and there are still whole areas of the house we haven't finished.
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Meanwhile, other scullers who will represent their country will be training hard for the coming South East Asian Championships, held in Malaysia in July.
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He banged about in the scullery, hunting for wire.
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Cinderella-like, she works as a scullery maid by day, but dances with her master's son by night.
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With a plopping of oars the sculler finally drew away from the far end of the steps, taking Lady Bustle off into the darkness.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Let's say for the sake of argument it was the scullery window.
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The house has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, one en-suite, a drawing room, a dining room, a morning room, a studio, kitchen/a breakfast room, a three attic rooms, a conservatory, a scullery, a cellar and a two-bedroom unmodernised annexe.
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GB single sculler, world silver and bronze medallist.
What I do on Christmas Day when the rest of the country is having fun
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`I wish you made as much fuss of me," Vera joked, going into the scullery to mash some fresh tea.
THE OPEN DOOR
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A naturally gifted sportswoman, she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards.
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As they continued down the corridor, they came upon a scullery maid curled up beside her mop and bucket.
WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
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As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.
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Straight ahead was the old kitchen and behind the scullery.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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The club also despatched a small squad of rowers and scullers to Turin to compete in the Campionato Italiano Gran Fondo ñ D' Inverno Sul Po 2005.
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York City Rowing Club's scullers had a field day harvesting trophies at Ancholme Head of the River in Lincolnshire.
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Does he call our scullery-maids and stable-boys "representative American middle class?
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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He lit a pool of paraffine on the scullery floor, and instantly
The History of Mr. Polly
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In fact she dragged him into what she called her scullery (do they still exist?) and proceeded to scrub behind his ear with said scullery brush.
British Blogs
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On Saturday, July 30, Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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Thus at Gravesend a sculler requires a shilling for going less way than he would row in
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to hear Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down to the Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
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Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to W.ite Hall, and so with them to W.stminster, Sir W. Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together discoursing of the office business, and glad of the Controller's business being likely to be put into better order than formerly, and did discourse of many good things, but especially of having something done to bringing the Surveyor's matters into order also.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67
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Of course being in the scullery is much better than being tied up.
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Fortunately for her, there lay, just off and behind the kitchen, a roomy scullery, where most of the dirty, and what may be called the smelly, work connected with cooking was done.
Good Old Anna
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Many people say this and that about a queen and a king, but I think a king comes more natural to us English folks; and this good gentleman goes as often down by water to Greenwich, and employs as many of the barge-men and water-men of all kinds; and maintains, in his royal grace, John Taylor, the water-poet, who keeps both a sculler and a pair of oars.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Australia's top single sculler, Amber Halliday took off at a cracking pace.
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He almost ran down the hall, through the kitchen and into the little utility room that had once been a scullery.
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The Carlow scullers did well with a good win for Claire Walsh in the Novice scull with wins over Commercial ‘B’ and Putney to reach the final and a convincing win against Commercial ‘A’.
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Stiller and Cotterill gained selection after strenuous testing alongside the country's dozen best scullers in Britain, who had battled through 150 hopefuls in the Great Britain trials last autumn.
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The scullery windows were steamed up and the old woman was boiling tatties and Brussels sprouts.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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He barked so long, so loud, and so furiously, running 'round and' round the cart and under it and yelping at every turn, that a slatternly scullery maid opened a door and angrily bade him "no 'to deave folk wi' 'is blatterin'.
Greyfriars Bobby
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He considered becoming a sculler (much as Redgrave had once desired) and even bought a house at Banyoles in Spain, where the 1992 Olympics were to be held, but without a sponsor the plan was curtailed and he was soon lost to rowing.
Andy Holmes obituary
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A naturally gifted sportswoman, she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards.
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A huge fireplace dominates this unused room while a tiny scullery is packed with old appliances.
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Then the Governor’s wife arose and stripped her of her jewels and silken raiment and, clothing her in petticoat-trousers of sack-cloth and a shift of hair-cloth, sent her down into the kitchen and made her a scullery-wench, saying,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The cottage is entered through a scullery that has a window overlooking the back yard.
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This overriding interest suggests that you're probably on your way to being an outstanding sculler.
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In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick
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Jimmy popped into the scullery then to turn the mutton chops in the pan in the gas oven.
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And the idea of a day or two of not being the Captain (and First Mate, and deckhand, and cook, and scullery maid) of the Good Ship Our House is just so, so, so compelling.
Guilt, Trip - Her Bad Mother
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But therein lies another source of discord, with the top Scottish scullers and rowers being forced to live and train in England.
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He banged about in the scullery, hunting for wire.
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She also noticed how quiet Thomasina in the scullery had become.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The scullery maids fell asleep over the washing up. The laundry maid fell asleep while they dusted, polished and prepared for the party.
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Single sculler Jennifer Devine finished second in her prelim to advance.
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As a single sculler you do spend a lot of time on your own, you do have to be highly motivated.
What I do on Christmas Day when the rest of the country is having fun
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There were domestic service agencies all over England who supplied scullery maids, kitchen maids, parlour maids, chambermaids, cooks general, cooks, butlers, housekeepers, nannies and companions.
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The race ended in a dead heat so the scullers had to re-row and Lyon lost by ½ a length.
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The first two were important in providing Australians with a sense of pride in the progress of the colonies, measured by the success of cricketers and scullers in international competition.