How To Use Scullery In A Sentence
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Let's say for the sake of argument it was the scullery window.
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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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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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Achieving this state of godliness was left to the servants whose main domain was the kitchen and scullery.
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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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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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I need to hear for myself why he was in the scullery that morning.
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I suggest you introduce yourself and get into the scullery.
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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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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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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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`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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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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There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.
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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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He banged about in the scullery, hunting for wire.
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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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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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In the kitchen, which was kalsomined, shone the few scullery utensils.
The Quest
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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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The flagged rear hall leads to a moderately sized kitchen, scullery and separate wine cellar with 18 arched storage bays.
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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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But achieving this state of godliness was left to the servants whose main domain was the kitchen and scullery.
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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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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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He banged about in the scullery, hunting for wire.
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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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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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Of course being in the scullery is much better than being tied up.
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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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He lit a pool of paraffine on the scullery floor, and instantly
The History of Mr. Polly
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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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Straight ahead was the old kitchen and behind the scullery.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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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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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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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 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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She also noticed how quiet Thomasina in the scullery had become.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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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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The scullery windows were steamed up and the old woman was boiling tatties and Brussels sprouts.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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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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In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick
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The cottage is entered through a scullery that has a window overlooking the back yard.
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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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A huge fireplace dominates this unused room while a tiny scullery is packed with old appliances.
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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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I was bored, and those silly ninnies you call scullery maids are no fun at all.
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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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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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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.
