A whiff of air crept in at the open window-flat, with a scullery odour which sickened her soul.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
All day long boys in white aprons had sprung from canvas-covered wagons, dived in Arthur Breen's kitchen and dived out again after depositing various eatables, drinkables and cookables-among them six pair of redheads, two saddles of mutton, besides such uncanny things as mushrooms, truffles and the like, all of which had been turned over to the chef, who was expressly engaged for the occasion, and whose white cap-to quote Parkins-"Gives a hair to the scullery which reminded him more of 'ome than anything 'e 'ad seen since 'e left 'is lordship's service."
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
But having washed his hands at a pump in the scullery, and dried them on a roller-towel-with no sense that the apparatus was deficient-he tucked his hat under his arm and, handling his snuff-box, tripped after her as hastily as vanity and an elegant demeanour permitted.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman