A depository for goods

Usage examples of storehouse.

In the same way Thackeray keeps up a running comment on his men and women, and these bits of philosophy make his novels a storehouse of apothegms, which may be read again and again with great profit and pleasure.

How I envied those bricks wrapped in newspaper, those storehouses and bestowers of warmth!

There had been some violence against Mirayans as the city fell and the slaves rose up against their masters, but now Brek and Duprey were overseeing the situation, locking the Mirayan men in the watchhouse and their families in various storehouses.

Early in August we were brought from Bridgewater to Taunton, where we were thrown with hundreds of others into the same wool storehouse where our regiment had been quartered in the early days of the campaign.

There seemed the less objection to their doing so since this tract of country, though traversed once both by Buller and by French, had still remained a stronghold of the Boers and a storehouse of supplies.

I would have expected him to expound upon the events, explaining them with his great storehouse of knowledge and wisdom.

After inspecting the whole site he found an abandoned mastaba that some predecessor had provided with a door, probably with the idea of using the structure as a storehouse.

What she knew she did have in place of a higher understanding was a storehouse of tales, anecdotes, snapshots, punch lines, and plaints from assorted humans at their most vulnerable and bizarre.

It was the illimitable storehouse or Pleroma, out of which is evolved the endless circle of phenomenal change.

Beside the Thames the stink of the silt mixed with the sweeter exhalations of the molasses, sugar and rum in the jumble of decrepit storehouses and manufactories that pressed up from the quays, together with the acrid tangs of the sea-wrack and snails exposed by the ebbing tide.

Her hull rode high in the water, and the shadows of her cutched sails swept fleetly over the workmen squatting on quays or thrumming up the planks to the storehouses, humping barrels of Icelandic cod or sacks of English wool.

Kindly note that these rates apply from date of delivery to the storehouse entrance, to date of reshipment from the same point.

The storehouses were rectangular, with steep roofs that had a wide overhang on all sides, and screened ventilators at the ends.

The sennit from the canoes and the sennit from the storehouse writhed together in one monstrous, irretrievably snarled up monument to the infinite feline capacity for disorder.

While I wondered what would bring so many together thus early, there came a sound of flutes--for these people can do nothing without piping like finches in a thicket in May--and from the storehouses half-way over to the harbour there streamed a line of carts piled high with provender.