He went to the drawing-room, where my lady sat looking regally beautiful in black velvet and point lace. |
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The man followed her as she led the way into the cool, fragrant drawing-room. |
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That night there was a tree in the drawing-room that reached to the frescoed ceiling. |
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No doubt in the drawing-room, or, perhaps, Godard has been drawn into the poker game. |
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Who is the young Greek godling, hopelessly lost in the impenetrable depths of your drawing-room? |
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Such was his study and his drawing-room, a multum in parvo about twelve feet square. |
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She had a flat on the ground floor, and she invited us to dinner, which was served in her drawing-room. |
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Mrs. Henniker met me in the drawing-room, just as gushing and charming as ever. |
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Brush up the drawing-room or go over the floor with a carpet-sweeper, wipe up the hard-wood floors, and dust the rooms. |
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An hour later, she was at the house of Mrs. Weston, and was shown into the drawing-room. |
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There was no one in the quaint old drawing-room, though it presented tokens of Mrs. Heep's whereabouts. |
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Perhaps you would like to go down to the drawing-room to mother and Mrs. Acheson. |
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I was once booked by my manager to give a causerie in the drawing-room of a New York millionaire. |
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The songful satirical line spouted in him, to be flung at his girl, as he ran upstairs to the boudoir off the drawing-room. |
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It was cool and quiet out there after the heat and hubbub of the drawing-room. |
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These chakra knew to be the side windows of the great hall, or drawing-room. |
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The room was furnished like an English drawing-room, even to the collard and collard piano. |
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After coffee we were ushered into the drawing-room, and listened to a concert. |
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After retiring to the drawing-room, the guests should intermingle in a social manner. |
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That washy drawing-room tea will give me the wind if I leave it on my stomach. |
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The drawing-room, with its moulded ceiling and huge recessed window, had presented an admirable field for connoisseurship. |
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He had never forgiven Mrs. Agar the insults she heaped upon his head in the drawing-room of jaggery House. |
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Then he turned to the two in the drawing-room, both of whom had now risen to their feet. |
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She led him into the drawing-room, and seated him in one of the mulberry chairs. |
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As she entered the drawing-room she came from out of doors, a slender, unfleshly figure, all intellect and idea. |
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His wife's portrait is placed in the drawing-room because it was painted by Kneller. |
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We sat in the drawing-room, although we should have preferred the cozier dining-room. |
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Mrs. creamer, a large, handsome woman with good shoulders, stood just inside the great drawing-room. |
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But, Cousin Eustace, you must put off your airs, and come with us to the drawing-room. |
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The Princess Bellini was waiting for Roma when she returned to the drawing-room. |
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And soon after that, it was time to be tidied up to go down to the drawing-room to mamma. |
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But when they were once more in the great drawing-room, she forgot the time limit. |
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Betty knows how to make that potpourri that Lloyd's Grandmother Amanthis always kept in the rose-jars in the drawing-room. |
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Daphne was militantly cheerful, and, in the drawing-room after dinner, she put the finishing touches to her speech. |
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He was determined to refurnish the drawing-room and also the bedroom in which Florence was destined to sleep. |
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She had addressed drawing-room meetings, she had aided in many a crusade against Popery and ritualism and other evil things. |
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This last may be served at the dining table, or later in the drawing-room by the hostess. |
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Upon their dismission, I had been requested to join the company in the drawing-room. |
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In the drawing-room only the secretaire and the floor beneath it had been burnt. |
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Beyond this drawing-room was a splendid boudoir furnished with tables and cabinets in imitation of boulle. |
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Mrs Cotterill came hysterically in upon the duologue between Denry and Ruth in the drawing-room. |
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They have been reproduced most carefully for the drawing-room of the Cedar House at Hillingdon. |
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And thus with many an excuse, and in great confusion, raper hurried out of the office, and upstairs into the drawing-room. |
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I dined that day as usual with the general, adjourning after dinner to the little drawing-room, where we played our chess. |
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As she came back she left the cardroom door open, so as to hear if any one should open that of the drawing-room to come in. |
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Its portability will render it as available for travelling, as its beauty will render it an ornament to the drawing-room. |
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Rouletabille as he entered the drawing-room recognized the shining, fattish bald head of the terrible man. |
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When Rita devoted it to the Carlist cause a bed was put into that drawing-room, just simply the bed. |
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In a villa on the westward shore of the Isle of Wight, the glass doors which lead from the drawing-room to the garden are yet open. |
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Pontellier, attired in a handsome reception gown, remained in the drawing-room the entire afternoon receiving her visitors. |
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There's a jintleman in the drawing-room as is axing afther masther. |
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During the daytime of the 11th of December I was busy reading in the large drawing-room. |
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Soft tones of rose and Nile green appear in his drawing-room. |
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I thought of the drawing-room next, and, being the more active of the two, went first to examine it. |
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I have no intention of billeting soldiers in my drawing-room. |
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If you meet a cat in a wood you think it's a wildcat, though it may have just strolled from the drawing-room sofa. |
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Away he cantered with Sultan, and we went into the drawing-room. |
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Many of these she had hung in the drawing-room at carvel Place. |
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Overhead the drawing-room windows shone with a cozy, warm radiance. |
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I slipped into the drawing-room and crouched behind a chair. |
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Coralie was in the little drawing-room with Sir dace, but not Verena. |
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Marrable gave up the drawing-room to be laid waste for a stage and a theater. |
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I ate sometimes in the dining car, sometimes in our drawing-room. |
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Laura began to drub on the drawing-room window and nod and laugh from it. |
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Is there any need of envying Polly in the great drawing-room? |
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Fortunately there was another entrance to the drawing-room than that through the saloon where they were all seated at dinner. |
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A pang shot through him at the memory of his lamplit hours in the low-studded drawing-room. |
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After a long interval, Miss Ladd returned to the drawing-room, and announced that she had sanctioned the engagement of Mrs. |
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Move the fire screen opposite the door leading to the drawing-room. |
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He tore up tablecloths, he cut down blind-cords, he brought the dust-sheets from the drawing-room, and multiplied every bond. |
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I felt very much puzzled, and descended to the drawing-room, and took out an excellent telescope that I generally used. |
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She had only time to gain the drawing-room before two names were oddly mispronounced by the Spanish maid, and Mrs. |
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Carey had retired as usual after dinner for a little snooze in the drawing-room, but he was in an irritable mood and could not sleep. |
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He was carried at once into the blue drawing-room and laid upon one of the sofas. |
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But Merdle, as usual, oozed sluggishly and muddily about his drawing-room, saying never a word. |
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Toward two o'clock in the afternoon Blanche and her step-mother entered the drawing-room of Lady Lundie's town house in Portland Place. |
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It was with some trepidation that I perceived the hour approach when I was to repair with my charge to the drawing-room. |
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I was shown into a pretty but rather close drawing-room, and there sat Agnes, netting a purse. |
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The tears and lamentations in the drawing-room were irresistible. |
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To Cassandra's ears the buzz of voices inside the drawing-room was like the tuning up of the instruments of the orchestra. |
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Newman, complying with Madame de Bellegarde's request, perceived that her two sons had returned to the drawing-room. |
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The drawing-room door was unlatched, and Martha, pushing it without looking into the room, waited for Mrs. |
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His business was transacted in an apartment furnished like a drawing-room, the walls hung with several brown, heavily-framed, oil paintings. |
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It was boomed, and lay, unread, on every ones drawing-room table. |
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The columbine looked charming in an outstanding skirt that strangely resembled the large lamp-shade in the drawing-room. |
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They were hardly settled in the drawing-room before Vic appeared. |
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During this conversation they had left the drawing-room and made a detour through the grounds. |
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Sir wilfrid, however, followed Lady Coryston into the drawing-room. |
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His tortures are the sport of the drawing-room arena and are pointed out and discussed with much gusto. |
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Deshayes were kicking yours before a pier glass in the drawing-room. |
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The two ladies entered the drawing-room with that sort of official stiffness which preludes a formal communication. |
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I found myself in a drawing-room, small and richly furnished. |
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Geraldine asked her fiance, as they stood in the drawing-room waiting for dinner. |
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Miss Volumnia rising with a look candlestick-wards, Sir Leicester politely performs the grand tour of the drawing-room, brings one, and lights it at my Lady's shaded lamp. |
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Here were deeper reasons than the superficial talk of a new man, which appeared still flimsier in the drawing-room over the shop, when they were recited to Mrs. |
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They ran in gaily, and after a long wait in the drawing-room sat down to the rough-and-ready lunch, every dish in which concealed or exuded cream. |
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Besides their hostess and her sister, they found, in the long chilly drawing-room, only another shawled lady, a genial Vicar who was her husband, a silent lad whom Mrs. |
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They sat in the drawing-room playing picquet with the door open. |
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Larkins's house in the evening, though it cuts me to the heart to see the officers go in, or to hear them up in the drawing-room, where the eldest Miss Larkins plays the harp. |
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The drive home restored him somewhat, but he wee still full of his surprise when he rejoined Agatha, his wife, and Erskine in the drawing-room at the Beeches. |
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Of course that is all that is expected of us when we are on mantels and cabinets and drawing-room tables, but our lives are much pleasanter here in our own country. |
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The quadroon sat for hours before Edna's palette, patient as a savage, while the house-maid took charge of the children, and the drawing-room went undusted. |
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When Henry Allegre gave the house to Rita in the early days he had planned a complete renovation and this room had been meant for the drawing-room. |
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Anxious and uneasy, the period which passed in the drawing-room, before the gentlemen came, was wearisome and dull to a degree that almost made her uncivil. |
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He was glad to find himself outside that drawing-room, breathing raw fog, and in contact with unpolished people who only wanted their share of the pavement allowed them. |
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This feature may be described as a series of glass-enclosed parlors CLINGING TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE, one against each and every bed-chamber and drawing-room. |
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When Ned was dressed, I re-entered the drawing-room, where the panes of glass were open, and, posted near Conseil, I examined the ambient beds that supported the Nautilus. |
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Building railways in the far West, with gangs of Chinese and Italians and Hungarians and scarcely a foreman who isn't terrified of his job, isn't exactly drawing-room work. |
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When she turned on the lights in the drawing-room, she disclosed herself clad in a sweeping negligee gown of soft rose-colored stuff, throat and shoulders smothered in lace. |
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She submitted cheerfully to the purple satin and yellow tuftings of the Welland drawing-room, to its sham Buhl tables and gilt vitrines full of modern Saxe. |
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An officer was placing two soldiers at the door of each drawing-room, and was advancing towards Danglars, preceded by a commissary of police, girded with his scarf. |
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In fact, that corner was the drawing-room of the establishment. |
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A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. |
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Her flat was always neat and cheerful, gay with flowers, and the chintzes in the drawing-room, notwithstanding their severe design, were bright and pretty. |
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