Ambry

But before I went, I looked around, and espied an ambry fashioned in the wall of the bed-lane, and the door was half open; and the said ambry was wrought of the daintiest, all of gold and pearl and gems; and I said to myself: Herein is some treasure, and this is a tide of war. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So I opened the ambry, and within it was even more gloriously wrought than without; and there was nought therein, save ❋ Unknown (2007)

The only furniture, excepting a washing-tub and a wooden press, called in Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Have you seen to putting the best platters and ewers in the ambry?" ❋ Goodkind, Terry (1999)

In the south wall there is a beautiful piscina, and in the north wall an ambry with a small stone penthouse; an octagonal baptismal font of remarkable design stands against the east wall of the aisle. ❋ Herbert Story (N/A)

There is an ambry in the south wall near the east end, and the doorway is semicircular and of Norman character. ❋ Herbert Story (N/A)

The place wherein this chapel and alms-house standeth was called the Elemosinary, or almonry, now corruptly the ambry, for that the alms of the Abbey were there distributed to the poor; and therein Islip, abbot of Westminster, erected the first press of book-printing that ever was in England, about the year of Christ 1471. ❋ Various (N/A)

He had refused definitely to enter the atelier of the gentleman who pleased his clients by ingeniously simulating the grain of walnut; and though he had seen the old oaken ambry kicked out contemptuously into the farmyard, serving perhaps the necessities of hens or pigs, he would not apprentice himself to the masters of veneer. ❋ Arthur Machen (1905)

Coming to a fine carved ambry, he hesitated, then stood still. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

The building is cruciform, of flint, dressed with Totternhoe and Caen stone, and has a square ambry, a very old piscina, and a double sedilia; the latter is E.E. Richard ❋ Herbert Winckworth Tompkins (1901)

Betty Lamb found the ambry niche in the wall of the ruin at the side of the place where the altar had been. ❋ Lily Dougall (1890)

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. ❋ Lily Dougall (1890)

Selred found the sacristan in the church, for it was the hour of matins, and between them they set what we had brought in the ambry which was built in the chancel wall. ❋ Unknown (1884)

At the east end of the church, on the gospel side of the site of the high altar, there is a recess in the wall, forming an ambry of elegant form. ❋ John Hunter (1883)

The only furniture, excepting a washing-tub, and a wooden press, called in Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel. ❋ Unknown (1877)

[247] [Probably a reference is intended to the proverbial expression about Mahomet and the mountain.] [248] An ambry or aumbry is a pantry or closet. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

Below the hall is seen a small _ambry_ or cupboard in the wall. ❋ William Henry Gladstone (1866)

So I opened the ambry, and within it was even more gloriously wrought than without; and there was nought therein, save a little flask of crystal done about with bands of gold set with great and goodly gems. ❋ William Morris (1865)