47 Verbs to Use for the Word cupboards

Mine arrived not long since, and if you open the cupboard you'll see how much is left.

On arriving at the study, his first act was to remove a shoe from the top of the pile in the basket, place it in the small cupboard under the bookshelf, and lock the cupboard.

" He took the key from his pocket, unlocked the cupboard, and took out the shoe.

"Probably he stole the keys and searched the cupboard; if he had found the stock he would have left the keys, which would then be of no further use to him.

After a little time, I felt somewhat better, and succeeded in reaching the cupboard where, usually, I keep brandy and biscuits.

That whatnot there, the one of black walnut with the top knocked off, that belonged in the old days to "Charles Baxter," calls my friend Patterson from the roadway, "can you fix my cupboard?" "Bring it in," says Charles Baxter, hospitably, and Patterson brings it in, and stops to talkand stopsand stopsThere is great talk in Baxter's shopthe slow-gathered wisdom of the country, the lore of crops and calves and cabinets.

MacManus objected bitterly for a long time, but the enticing odor drove him almost crazy, and the sight of the renegade fat boy, who was fairly making a cupboard of himself, finally convinced the president that it was better to take his ill fortune with a good grace.

He went into the library, and spent half-an-hour in pacing across it, taking measurements, and examining the big cupboard in which he was found insensible.

After the middle of the eighteenth century, however, these extra doors and the enclosed cupboard gradually disappeared, and soon after the mahogany side table came into fashion it became the custom to supplement this article of furniture by a pedestal cupboard on either side (instead of the cupboards alluded to), one for hot plates and the other for wine.

Dresses and hats lay about on the bed, and in the next room the maid was busy emptying the cupboards.

She explored Lena's cupboard for supplies, and found, after some searching, a can of soup and the inevitable crackers.

He grasped the pilaster on each side of the panel, gave a gentle pull, and panel and pilasters came away bodily, exposing a moderate-sized cupboard.

The Captain had filled the cupboard with old letters and papers of no value, and with relics he had brought from foreign lands during his many voyages.

"I stole into the second floor front and, by the light of a match, found the cupboard.

His first act was to fling the cupboard key out into the bushes.

Curious beds, consisting of shelves for parents and children, form a cupboard in the wall and are shut in during the day by a pair of lattice doors of Moorish design, with the wheel pattern and spindle perforations.

Carpets were only employed to garnish cupboards."

It is a curious fact for psychologists that he thought clearly during his backward flight, and wondered whether he should hit the chemistry cupboard or the blackboard easel.

The corner beyond held a wall-fast cupboard so large that it looked like a closet built into the room.

'Yer know that cupboard by the top of the stairs?

I didn't see the jar leave the cupboard, or fly through the air; it went too quick.

To say that the dark, lumbering cupboard, standing normally against the wall down there in the shadows, loomed suddenly forward and upward, bent, twisted, and stretched out the whole of one side towards him like a misshapen arm, can convey nothing of the world of new sensations that the little secretary felt while actually watching it in progress in that haunted chamber of Skale's mansion among the hills.

One of the bedrooms may be a dressing-room, if it is quite understood that a dressing-room does not mean a cupboard in which the last tenant's housemaid kept her brushes.

"If they miss the cupboard," he said, "they will not find these; if they find them, they'll tell no tales, except that Father Holt wore more suits of clothes than one.

"My sister, you have not shut your drawer," said the captain, as he passed the cupboard.

47 Verbs to Use for the Word  cupboards