The wall next to the stairs was connected to a disused root-cellar, fenced off by planks with large gaps full of darkness between them. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)
The first potato crop ever planted on Lallybroch was due for harvest within a few days, and-on my timorous and inexpert advice-a small root-cellar was being dug to house them. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
The stone-walled kitchen, too small for the number of people crowded into it, was ill-lit, with only two lanterns for the whole room, cramped and hot; in the inevitable confusion of dinner preparation it had been fairly simple for them to slip into the root-cellar to hide, then to lure individuals away and knock them out with a song of sleep. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)
The evidence of his work was hidden thirty feet beyond his former laboratory in Jake's village, with a tunnel that led from another root-cellar. ❋ Lester Del Rey (1954)
We killed hundreds of birds in order to save the corn and had good crops of wheat and oats and we also had a most remarkable yield of potatoes; so large in fact, that we had to build a root-cellar in the hillside out of logs. ❋ Various (N/A)
In that hour she discovered that a finer courage is necessary to admit a mistake and to begin anew than to besiege a hobo in a root-cellar. ❋ Mary Ellen Chase (1930)
It belonged to the root-cellar just beyond the kitchen, and it hung in Mr. Hunter's office above his desk. ❋ Mary Ellen Chase (1930)
They asked question after question and explored every nook and corner of the cabin and its surroundings -- the kitchen with its shining stove, singing tea-kettle, and white-covered table, the pantry, the root-cellar and chicken-house, and last of all the creek-refrigerator. ❋ Mary Ellen Chase (1930)
Why should Mr. Crusoe want to go to the root-cellar? ❋ Mary Ellen Chase (1930)
As Mr. Crusoe rounded the farther corner of the porch, and started in the direction of the root-cellar, Vivian ran through the house and into Hannah's spotless kitchen. ❋ Mary Ellen Chase (1930)
Helêne came running in one morning in the early spring of 1606, to find old Jacqueline on the steps of the root-cellar with a heap of sprouting potatoes beside her. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)
Being very hardy, the plants may be dug in late fall, and stored the same as celery, in trenches or in a cool root-cellar. ❋ Unknown (1906)
They hid in the huge root-cellar and there held a council of war. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
A word of praise to Roxy made that grateful scrubber leave her work to poke about in the root-cellar, choosing "sech as was pretty much of a muchness, else they wouldn't bile even"; so Merry was spared that part of the job, and went up to scrape and wash without complaint, since it was for father. ❋ Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 (1902)
The flower-room and root-cellar were therefore so much warmer during the night than if the water had not been there. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
"I put water in the root-cellar before I went to bed last night, with like good effect." ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
I also had to make a half-day's journey to the city of Newtown to buy more seed, since the children's appetites had greatly reduced the stock in the root-cellar. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
A word of praise to Roxy made that grateful scrubber leave her work to poke about in the root-cellar, choosing "sech as was pretty much of a muchness, else they wouldn't bile even;" so Merry was spared that part of the job, and went up to scrape and wash without complaint, since it was for father. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)
Last week, my little local Greenmarket started to shift from root-cellar mode to there-will-soon-be-asparagus mode, and it was with considerable joy that I bought the year’s first bunch of young Swiss chard. ❋ Unknown (2008)
