half-drawers

Updated: May 16, 2025

There were the tall clock in the corner, the big black worm-eaten oak cabinet, half-cupboard, half-drawers; there was the long table like a rock of granite; there was the spinning wheel in the neuk window; and there were the whips and the horns on the rafters overhead yet how unfamiliar it all seemed to be! Rotha was hastily preparing supper for him.

Sir Hall Caine - The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance