In the first year of my marriage I discovered a dusty cubby-hole off Belfast's High Street – Atlantic Records. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Though the cook had a cubby-hole of a state-room opening off from the cabin, in the cabin itself he had never dared to linger or to be seen, and he flitted to and fro, once or twice a day, a timid spectre. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He pressed the call-button, and, when his room-steward answered, turned Michael over to him to be taken down below and tied up in the crowded cubby-hole. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Shop No. 19 is a dark, dingy cubby-hole near Gaushala market on Mata Road in the heart of Gurgaon, the capital's gleaming satellite city that is home to the plush offices of Indian and foreign multinational corporations and luxury gated communities that house the executives working in them. ❋ Unknown (2011)
She grabbed the Magic 8 Ball off the bottom cubby-hole. ❋ Kelly Creagh (2010)
In his cubby-hole at the rear sat the Globe's city editor, the only other human thing in sight. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
In the city editor's cubby-hole, Bill Rankin was talking exultantly to his chief. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
We thought it was pretty lousy that rides weve been going on for years and taking the bag on, or stowing it in a cubby-hole on the platform, now suddenly charged a buck each. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The doors of our "socialist cubby-hole" are open to anyone, including Obama. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He didn't say, but that "family" could easily be The Family -- as in the narco-mafia who, based in Pakistan, Iran and former Soviet Central Asian republics, help move thousands of pounds of opium from the two dozen cubby-hole shops in this corner of the bazaar. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On receipt of the promise, the man drops the wrench with a clang and emerges from his cubby-hole, at which point several carefully selected bluejackets, each much stronger of grip and longer of reach than a jump-station tech, move in and restrain him until the doctor has stuck a hypodermic needle into him with the comment, "Just a mild sedative." ❋ Unknown (2005)
By the time the public-address system barks out a "Now hear this!" he has found himself a cubby-hole and a heavy wrench with which to discourage anything as unsubtle as a frontal assault. ❋ Unknown (2005)
This was drunk in a kind of cubby-hole off the night nursery, the three colonials having failed to fraternise with the posse of English servants who had been taken over with the house: a set of prim, starched pokers these, ran the verdict; and deceitful, too, with their “sirs” and “madams” to your face, and all the sneery backbiting that went on below-stairs. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Bergen, and really they had no room for them in their two small rooms and a cubby-hole for a maid. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It would seem, however, that their teacher had some sort of a “word-book,” and when they assembled in his little cubby-hole of a retreat he began reading aloud from it this puzzling sentence: ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sgt Johan Burger, who searched de Villiers 'bakkie after it had been delivered to the murder and robbery branch in Pretoria, said he had definitely found two watches - one an expensive silver watch with a broken strap - in the bakkie's cubby-hole. ❋ Unknown (1996)
He'd got a good look at the face of the man who'd been accompanying Luxford, and there was something about his expression of barely controlled hostility that suggested to Rodney that he hang about Miss Wallace's compulsively neat cubby-hole on the off-chance something of interest occurred. ❋ George, Elizabeth (1996)
Breathing out with relief I relocked Mrs Dove's door and walked along through the row of cubby-hole offices and came to the first setback: the fire-door leading to brown-overalls territory was not merely locked but had a red light shining above it. ❋ Francis, Dick (1995)
