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Sentences ending with drawing-room

Some of those who were present at Mrs. Grainger's that evening remember her entrance into the drawing-room. [9]
Now, if I were on my dying bed, I could say to you that not even he has two in his drawing-room. [5]
In the afternoon we went to our Minister's to see the American ladies who had been presented at the drawing-room. [6]
Instead of the usual formal audience of 15 minutes, we staid 4 hours and were made a good deal more at home than we could have been in a New York drawing-room. [5]
That day I threw Chartersea's presents out of the window, but my father made the servants gather them all which escaped breaking, and put them in the drawing-room. [9]
But she felt the stillness in the drawing-room. [11]
Henderson was under the spell of this evening when the next, in response to a note asking him to call for a moment on business, he was shown into the Eschelle drawing-room. [4]
They reach even the poor relation, whose dreary apparition saddens the perfumed atmosphere of the sumptuous drawing-room. [6]
And presently, after the ladies were gone, the gentlemen tossed off their wine and roared over their jokes, and followed into the drawing-room. [9]
It was of the evening of his first arrival in Washington that he writes: "I emerged from dirt and darkness into the blazing splendor of Mrs. Madison's drawing-room. [4]

Short sentences using drawing-room

Was this probably the drawing-room? [5]
The drawing-room was charming. [11]

More example sentences with the word drawing-room in them

No, the drawing-room would not quite do, though it was near the perfect thing. [11]
One afternoon when, with other compatriots, we were being hurried through a famous castle, the guide unwittingly ushered us into a drawing-room where the owner and several guests were seated about a tea-table. [9]
Her sunny drawing-room, with its gathered silk curtains, was especially beautiful; whatever the Leffingwells or Allisons may have lacked, it was not taste. [9]
A drawing-room, the window of which has been carelessly left open during a dust-storm, is indeed an extraordinary sight. [5]
Her heart beating wildly, she ran to the windows of the drawing-room and peered through the lilacs. [9]
It matters not whether they treat of middle-class life, of low, slum life, or of drawing-room life and lords and ladies; they are equally flat and dreary. [4]
The evening was well forward when Doltaire, rising from his seat in the drawing-room, bowed to me, and said, "If it pleases you, monsieur? [11]
Upstairs, the drawing-room was flooded with sunlight that poured in through a window with stone mullions and leaded panes extending the entire width of the house. [9]
After that there was a roar of merriment over Mr. Storer cracking mottoes with a certain Lady Jane; and how young Lord Stavordale, on a wager, tilted the candles and set fire to the drawing-room at Lady Julia's drum, the day before. [9]
It began at two in the afternoon in a long drawing-room in the Windsor Hotel. [5]
She was recalling, too, the afternoon of that day when she and David had parted in the drawing-room of the Cloistered House, and Eglington had asked her to sing. [11]
The actual transfer to the stage of the drawing-room and its occupants, with the behavior common in well-bred society, would no doubt fail of the intended dramatic effect, and the spectators would declare the representation unnatural. [4]
We do afford to live in the finest hotel in Vienna, and have 4 bedrooms, a dining-room, a drawing-room, 3 bath-rooms and 3 Vorzimmers, (and food) but we couldn't get the half of it in New York for the same money ($600 a month). [5]
Three hours later this same man crouched by the drawing-room window of the Wandenong homestead and looked in, listening to the same voice, until Barbara Golding entered the room and took a seat near the piano, with her face turned full towards him. [11]
And when on the threshold of the drawing-room she paused, the conversation suddenly ceased. [9]
He went into the house and started to enter the drawing-room, still in disorder and reeking with smoke. [9]
I came into the drawing-room, where Mrs. Winton was sitting up very stiff in a chair, beating me at my own game. [5]
When he reached the drawing-room, surrounded by eager listeners, she was beginning to sing. [11]
When they reached the drawing-room, Marion was seated at the piano, playing a rhapsody of Raff's, and Mrs. Armour and Lali were seated side by side. [11]
When he entered the drawing-room, he looked as handsome as a man need in this world. [11]
He ran into the drawing-room, announcing Charley with the words: "I say, Kathleen, I've brought the man that made the judge sit up. [11]
Everybody is in the drawing-room in the evening, and although, in the freedom of the place, full dress is not exacted, the habit of parade in full toilet prevails. [4]
As Richard passed the drawing-room door to ascend the stairs, he recognised the voices. [11]
Laura remained in the drawing-room and left them to pilot themselves out of the house--an inhospitable thing, it seemed to her, but then she was following her instructions. [5]
Yet he enjoyed the company of his equals, and never withdrew, no matter how many callers--whom he recognized as of his society--might come into the drawing-room. [4]
We learn that the company have put a new engine on the seven o'clock train, and newly upholstered the drawing-room car throughout. [5]
Then he entered the chill drawing-room, threw open the blinds and glanced around him. [9]
In the drawing-room the buzzing about the card tables was hushed a moment as she went in. [9]
Conybear informed me that they were "magnates,"... We were sitting in the drawing-room at tea, when they entered with Mr. Watling, and no sooner had he spoken to Mrs. Kyme than his quick eye singled me out of the group. [9]
When the visitors swept into the drawing-room they filled the place with a suffocating sweetness procured at the perfumer's. [5]
Beyond its obscurity stretched the glitter of the deep drawing-room. [8]
Such was her state of mind, when she was led into the drawing-room. [9]
The "Golden Treasury" stands on my drawing-room table at home, and the name on its title-page had a familiar sound. [6]
Go to the small drawing-room up-stairs and amuse yourself a moment. [5]
The drawing-room was shrouded, and the library; the books wrapped neatly in paper; a smell of camphor pervaded the place; the cheerful schoolroom was dismantled; trunks and travelling bags appeared. [9]
The amateur, though she may be a lady, who attempts to represent upon the stage the lady of the drawing-room, usually fails to convey to the spectators the impression of a lady. [4]
No doubt I shall hear next of your going to a drawing-room and instructing his Majesty how to subdue the colonies. [9]
He tolerated the servants, because they belonged to the house, and would sometimes linger by the kitchen stove; but the moment visitors came in he arose, opened the door, and marched into the drawing-room. [4]
And when I see a whole silent, solemn drawing-room full of idiots sitting with their hands on each other's foreheads "communing," I tug the white hairs from my head and curse till my asthma brings me the blessed relief of suffocation. [5]
And as Honora sat at the window of the drawing-room of the sleeping car, life seemed as fantastic and unreal as the moss-hung Southern forest into which she stared. [9]
Our form is rude and explosive; it is not suited to the drawing-room or the heifer-paddock; but "M-y word! [5]
You bring a red man into a picture-gallery, or a city full of fine architecture, or into a drawing-room crowded with objects of art and beauty, and he is apparently insensible to them all. [4]
No one is reared for the drawing-room; but where there is a drawing-room in which mental gifts are fostered and truth finds an abode, a true graduate of Keilhau will be an ornament. [10]
He, at any rate, did not seem surprised to see me here, he greeted me with respectful cordiality and led me, as a favoured guest, through the big drawing-room into the salon. [9]
He could not raise his feet from the ground, but skated along the drawing-room carpet whenever he wished to ring the bell. [4]
Jimmy had a pocket knife, and he wandered into the drawing-room with it one day, alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture to an indeterminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour. [5]
Orders were as plentiful in his drawing-room as the candles. [9]
She took great pleasure in the "quiet drives to old ruins and old halls, situated among older hills and woods; the dialogues by the old fireside in the antique oak-panneled drawing-room, while they suited him, did not too much oppress and exhaust me. [14]
This frankness was pleasing, and soon the governor took Iberville into the drawing-room, where Jessica was. [11]
Never before had Peppingham drawing-room heard a song like this; never before, never after, did any of Delia Gasgoyne's friends hear her sing as she did that night. [11]
As we made our way back to the drawing-room, I was hoping for a talk with Dolly (alas! [9]
Show me any other place where every other drawing-room is not a chamber of the Inquisition, with papas and mammas for inquisitors,--and the cold shoulder, instead of the "dry pan and the gradual fire," the punishment of "heresy"! [6]
If we could only have on the stage such actresses as we have in the drawing-room! [4]
We were married on the fifteenth of June, already an anniversary for us both, in the long drawing-room. [9]
But the sense of what she said, was, "He couldn't have done any harm in the conservatory--so you must go and make the entire house free to him and the burglars, imagining that he will prefer the coal-bins to the drawing-room. [5]
In the drawing-room of the Villa Nardi was shown, and offered for sale, an enormous counterpane, crocheted in white cotton. [4]
But the picture of the drawing-room I was led into, with all its colours, remains in the eye of my mind to this day. [9]
I had first of all besought Nick to go up into the drawing-room and give the money back. [9]
The guests were now arriving in the drawing-room pretty fast, and the Colonel's hand began to burn a good deal with the sharp squeezes which many of the visitors gave it. [6]
The party did not meet again till evening in the great drawing-room. [4]
But she heard Mrs. Pomfret's voice on the landing above and fled, as to a refuge, into the dark drawing-room, where she stood for a moment motionless, listening for the sound of his sleigh-bells as they fainted on the winter's night. [9]
In the drawing-room, Mrs. Grainger's cousin did not escape, and the biography was the subject of laughter. [9]
He publishes a monograph on the painters of Spain, artificial, confident, rhetorical, acute: as fascinating as a hide-and-seek drawing-room play-- he is so cleverly escaping from his ignorance and indiscretions all the while. [11]
She followed him mechanically into the drawing-room. [9]
She would be lingering in the drawing-room in her best bib and tucker, or strolling in the garden as Dr. Courtenay passed, and I got but scant attention indeed. [9]
A peal of laughter came from the drawing-room, and then the sound of chords struck on the piano. [8]
It is a large apartment, roofed, floored, open on three sides, with a door or a draped archway opening into the drawing-room. [5]
The great brass knocker, once resplendent from Scipio's careful hand, no longer fantastically reflects the guest as he beats his tattoo, and Mr. Peale's portrait of my grandfather is gone from the dining-room wall, adorning, as you know, our own drawing-room at Calvert House. [9]
A singer who is no longer equal to the trials of opera on the stage may yet please at a chamber concert or in the drawing-room. [6]
When the hesitating Irish serving-man had acknowledged that the ladies were at home, and had taken her card to them, she sat waiting for them in the drawing-room. [8]
And so, running into the drawing-room, I pried open the window, and sat me down in the embrasure to think, and to try to quiet the thumpings of my heart. [9]
Sometimes there floated in upon us the hum of revelry from the great drawing-room where Madame had her company. [9]
Once or twice, in the intimate and somewhat uproarious badinage that had been tossed back and forth in the drawing-room after dinner, her delicacy had been offended: an air of revelry had prevailed, enhanced by the arrival of whiskey-and-soda on a tray. [9]
Breed, a light in the drawing-room. [9]
Pierre was sitting in the drawing-room where Shinshin had engaged him, as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in which several others joined but which bored Pierre. [2]
At Silverdale, and in the drawing-room of the New York house, and in the little parlour in this far western town. [9]
They were waiting in the drawing-room for an afternoon drive. [4]
On her appearance in the doorway he halted abruptly in his pacing of the drawing-room, and stared at her. [9]
After searching awhile in the dark, he found a ladder the gardener had left against a tree; after much straining, we carried the ladder to the house and set it up under one of the windows of the drawing-room. [9]
The occurrence started in Miss Sadler a train of thought, as a result of which she left the drawing-room where these reunions were held, and went into her own private study to write a note. [9]
A dangerous person in a drawing-room, I should think; but interesting. [11]
In my note I said I couldn't make the drawing-room talk, now --Murray would explain; and added a P. S.: "You mustn't think it is because I am afraid to trust my hat in your reach again, for I assure you upon honor it isn't. [5]
Word by word I rehearsed the scene in the drawing-room over the Park, but I could not think calmly, for the pain of it. [9]
In this dream I always find myself, stripped to my shirt, cringing and dodging about in the midst of a great drawing-room throng of finely dressed ladies and gentlemen, and wondering how I got there. [5]
The governor and his friends had gone straight to the drawing-room, so that Morris and he were alone. [11]
He crept by him to the drawing-room, where his son was; the place was full of the awful sweetness of the flowers that Fulkerson had brought, and that lay above the pulseless breast. [8]
Sonya, muttering to herself, kept looking round toward the drawing-room door. [2]
And Mrs. Grainger herself was not a little surprised; she was not a dramatic person, and it was not often that her drawing-room was the scene of even a mild sensation. [9]
Mrs. Armour, in her sense of duty, which she had rigidly set before her, introduced Lali into the drawing-room. [11]
Perhaps it was her husband who was the disillusionizing note as he stood on the polished floor of the sunflooded drawing-room. [9]
He seemed to have forgotten her as they mounted in silence to the porch, and she watched him with curious feelings as he gazed about him, and peered through the windows into the drawing-room. [9]
Then the crowd hastily retired from the drawing-room door, at which the Emperor reappeared talking to the hostess. [2]
Her voice, which had only been taught to warble the simplest melodies, after a little training began to show its force and sweetness and flexibility in the airs that enchant drawing-room audiences. [6]
A large dinner had been fixed for this October evening, and only just before half-past eight Jasmine entered the drawing-room to receive her guests. [11]
Now, entering the great drawing-room of her own house she shuddered as though from an icy chill. [11]
A couple say good-night at the door of a drawing-room. [4]
If three or four meet in a drawing-room they all begin to scream, not that they may be heard--for the higher they go the less they understand each other--but simply to acquire the art of screaming at receptions. [4]
Which was good for all concerned; for, two nights after Frank and Richard had gone, Mackenzie hurried down to the drawing-room with the news that Lali had been found in a faint on her chamber floor. [11]
Thus she stood for a while, motionless, and then went quietly into the drawing-room. [9]
We used to flop down on our Louis Quinze furniture on the Vaal with our muddy boots on--in our front drawing-room. [11]

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