over-room

Updated: July 7, 2025

So saying, Peter walked into a kind of roofed over-room, open only at the front, and examined the floor with his lantern, stamping occasionally to detect any hollowness in the ground. "Nothing here, massa, but this dead fellow's leg-bone and little bits of broken jugs," and the dauntless Peter came out with his ghastly trophy. Moore seemed not to lose heart.

Andrew Lang - In the Wrong Paradise