Example Sentences

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That’s why we like it when our partners leave the house and have outside friendships, and don’t wall them up inside our wine-cellars like a Vestal Virgin who has violated her oath to Hestia.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2017

The bands waxed fat with plunder of castles and religious houses, and did full justice to the contents of the rich monastic wine-cellars.

From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort

His light, flung upon rough-hewn walls, showed down three steps the grated doors of the wine-cellars.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West

The fugitive inhabitants had driven off their cattle and destroyed their stores; there remained only the apparently inexhaustible wine-cellars.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count

He knew the wine-cellars at the various restaurants, ordered Chambertin a certain distance up the boulevards, and only ordered it there.

From Renée Mauperin by Hallard, Alys