coalhole

She was often shut in the coalhole (she broke down the door).

He could see no chinks to suggest a trapdoor or coalhole.

Me neither; Oranges was a scream from a coalhole.

"I did not think being in the coalhole, although I hated it, was so terrible," she says.

Meanwhile dogs are disappearing, and this seems to be linked with a coalhole in a derelict alley.

Satisfied with his solution, he carried the chair into the coalhole, got up on to it and, using the pincers, wrenched back the bolt.

Mother (always Mrs Winterson in print) was vicious and half-mad, locking Jeanette in the coalhole or out on the step.

I waited and waited inside that coal-hole for you to come back with George - and when you didn't, I left the coalhole and got into the house.

As children spotted objects such as coalhole covers, oak trees, semaphore signals, fire engines, whelks, and so on, they recorded the event in the relevant book, and gained points.

Whenever the door of this coalhole was opened a violent whiff of alcohol mingled with the scent of stale cooking in the lodge, as well as with the penetrating scent of the flowers upon the table.

Recollect the yella perals that all too often beset green gerils, Rhidarhoda and Daradora, once they gethobbyhorsical, playing breeches parts for Bessy Sudlow in fleshcoloured pantos instead of earthing down in the coalhole trying to boil the big gun's dinner.