Use parlor in a sentence
Sentences ending with parlor
- I could put you a folding bed in the room where you wrote, and we could even have one in the parlor. [8]
- Some of them were nearly as large square as an ordinary parlor. [5]
- Then they went up to bed, and in their delirium of bliss they forgot and left the candle burning in the parlor. [5]
- They were sitting together by themselves in the dimly lighted parlor. [6]
- I am beginning to think this room where we take our tea is more like a tinder-box than a quiet and safe place for "a party in a parlor. [6]
- I have had the portraits framed for a long time, waiting till my aunt gets everything ready for hanging them up in the parlor. [5]
- Miss Badlam's in the parlor. [6]
- Tallow candles furnished the light for the bedrooms, a whale-oil lamp furnished it for the parlor. [5]
- A current from the great store that was in her, pent up and all unknown, ran through him, and then she had struggled out of his arms and fled, leaving him standing alone in the parlor. [9]
- Would the clerk tell him that a lady and gentleman wished to see him for a moment in the parlor? [5]
Short sentences using parlor
- Her parlor was his bedroom. [5]
Sentences containing parlor two or more times
- When Rowena had at last done all her duty by the people in the parlor, she went upstairs to satisfy the longings of an overflow meeting there, for the parlor was not big enough to hold all the comers. [5]
More example sentences with the word parlor in them
- What in the world possessed you to clutter up the parlor table with these baskets of ashes? [5]
- The big parlor, with its photographs and stereoscope, and bits of shell and mineral, a piano and a melodeon, and a coveted old sideboard of mahogany, recalled rural New England. [4]
- It was she who led the way into the parlor and seated herself, as before, on one of the uncompromising, straight-backed chairs. [9]
- The persons who were in the parlor agree substantially as to what occurred. [5]
- The young men were apparently quite as much surprised as she, and the parlor maid stood grinning behind them. [9]
- Alonzo Fitz Clarence was sitting in his snug and elegant little parlor, in a lovely blue silk dressing-gown, with cuffs and facings of crimson satin, elaborately quilted. [5]
- Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]
- Now, Miss Sadler was going about among them in the school parlor saying good-by, sending particular remembrance to such of the fathers and mothers as she thought worthy of that honor; kissing some, shaking, hands with all. [9]
- After breakfast he walked into the parlor, where he found Miss Darley. [6]
- We had a visit with my niece in the parlor, then started for the trolley again. [5]
- There was Miss Virginia in a corner of the big parlor, for the moment alone with her cousin. [9]
- Five minutes after two shots were fired in quick succession, and there was a rush to the parlor from which the reports came. [5]
- He greeted Cynthia, too, with a warm welcome--for Ezra Graves,--and ushered them into a best parlor which was reserved for ministers and funerals and great occasions in general, and actually raised the blinds. [9]
- When I got to the parlor I was in a fine frenzy concealed beneath a veneer of frigid courtesy. [5]
- He came up to me in the office, deferentially asked me if I would go into the parlor with him, and, pointing to something hanging on the wall, asked, 'What is that? [4]
- When we went to call on our American Consul General today I noticed that all possible games for parlor amusement seemed to be represented on his center tables. [5]
- We passed out through the parlor, and there was Marget at the spinnet teaching Marie Lueger. [5]
- That parlor Cynthia thought a handsome room, with its high windows and lace curtains, its long mirrors and marble-topped tables. [9]
- At the hotel they gave us rooms that were alarming, for size, and parlor to match. [5]
- The boldest of them took a rapid survey of the big parlor, before they put foot on the stairs to see whether Mr. Brice had yet arrived. [9]
- If we follow them into the other parlor, we can, perhaps, pick up something of their conversation. [6]
- The judge ushered them into his bedroom, the parlor being too good for such an occasion. [9]
- It was well the weather required no fire in the parlor, for I think one might as well have tried to warm a park. [5]
- After a while the path led us along a railed precipice, and we looked over--far beneath us was the snug parlor again, the little Gasternthal, with its water jets spouting from the face of its rock walls. [5]
- They withdrew to the parlor, and the two old ladies began to discuss with interest the strange things which they had been listening to. [5]
- As she entered the parlor Mr. Worthington was standing in the window. [9]
- I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin. [5]
- Please step into the parlor and sit down and have a bite and sup; you are dreadful wet and must be uncomfortable --both of you, I mean. [5]
- She was in the parlor alone, a little before noon, when Mr. Peckham came in. [6]
- The band in the nearly empty hotel parlor, in a mournful mood, was wooing the guests who did not come to a soothing tune, something like China--"Why do we mourn departed friends? [4]
- They went into the little parlor, which was nicely furnished in mahogany and horsehair. [9]
- He asked for the ladies, and the maid showed him into the parlor, where he found Mrs. Leighton and Miss Woodburn. [8]
- She returned into the great parlor with the wrought cornices and the medallion-portraits on the ceiling. [6]
- This apartment was the family bedroom, parlor, library and kitchen, all in one. [5]
- She sat in the dark little parlor below on a rough-hewn wooden bench. [10]
- She was in the common parlor, and, fortunately, alone. [6]
- That night at ten o'clock the band was scraping away in the deserted parlor, with not another person in attendance, without a single listener. [4]
- Some ten days subsequent to this reconciliation Ellen, the parlor maid, brought up a card to Cynthia's room. [9]
- One day a stranger came to town and opened a billiard parlor. [5]
- Such was the state of affairs one gray afternoon in December when Cynthia, who was sitting in Mrs. Merrill's parlor, suddenly looked up from her book to discover that two young men were in the room. [9]
- In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green, At the side toward the sunset, with the window on its right, Stood the London-made piano I am dreaming of to-night. [6]
- She had taken some papers from it, which she was looking over, when a knock at her door announced a visitor, and Master Byles Gridley entered the parlor. [6]
- One man was singing--roaring, you may say; and it wasn't a nice song--for a parlor anyway. [5]
- At last Mr. Silas Peckham thought it was time to make a move for the parlor, and for this purpose presented himself at the door of the ladies' dressing-room. [6]
- On the other side of Mr. Sweet, next to the parlor organ and the quartette, is the genial little railroad president Mr. Merrill, batting the flies which assail the unprotected crown of his head, and smiling benignly on the audience. [9]
- That parlor was shut up now, and icy cold. [9]
- The gentlemen were shown into the parlor. [6]
- At half past seven o'clock, the Colonel, in costume, came into the front parlor, and proceeded to light the lamps. [6]
- Mr. Gamaliel Ives sent up his card to Miss Lucretia, and was shown deferentially into the parlor, where he sat mopping his brow and growing hot and cold by turns. [9]
- There was a sense of abundance in the sight of fowls tiptoeing about the verandas, and to meet a chicken in the parlor was a sort of guarantee that we should meet him later on in the dining-room. [4]
- You will have plenty of space, for by my project you will use the parlor wall. [5]
- The superintendent, in pity, gave up his own comfortable parlor and bedchamber to him and nursed him with affectionate devotion. [5]
- A simple evening party in the smallest village is just as admirable in its degree, when the parlor is cheerfully lighted, and the board prettily spread, and the guests are made to feel comfortable without being reminded that anybody is making a painful effort. [6]
- There in the parlor, and Marget standing looking at us, astonished. [5]
- He's in the parlor, and he won't sit down, or anything. [8]
- He read it over a hundred times, and showed it confidentially to his favorite cousin, who had beaux of her own and had even "sat up" with them in the parlor. [4]
- How he got out of the parlor of the Willard House he has not to this day a very clear idea. [9]
- Without noticing the other occupants of the parlor he strode up to Mrs. Brice, looked at her for an instant from under the grizzled brows, and held out his large hand. [9]
- But as parlor ornaments they had a fascination which we could not escape. [4]
- Suddenly the door opened, and into our cozy parlor walked the most venerable personage I ever laid eyes on, who saluted me with great dignity. [4]
- The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms. [5]
- Even Washington observed, once, that when the Tennessee Land was sold he would have a "store" carpet in his and Clay's room like the one in the parlor. [5]
- P. S. One of the persons present in the parlor says that after Laura Hawkins had fired twice, she turned the pistol towards herself, but that Brierly sprung and caught it from her hand, and that it was he who threw it on the floor. [5]
- Under the lamp of the little parlor in the tannery house, Cynthia (who has now arrived at the very serious age of nineteen) was reading the papers to Jethro and came upon Mr. Sutton's speech. [9]
- A big fire of logs was blazing in the ample chimney-place; groups were seated about at ease, chatting, reading, smoking; couples promenaded up and down; and from the distant parlor, through the long passage, came the sound of the band. [4]
- In these days of electric lighting, when you have only to touch a button and your parlor or bedroom is instantly flooded with light, it is a pleasure to revert to the era of the tinder-box, the flint and steel, and the brimstone match. [6]
- And the sight of Cynthia in Mrs. Merrill's parlor had set him to thinking in a very different manner than the sight of her in Washington had affected him. [9]
- The record was obscure in some points; but the portrait, marked "Ann Holyoake, burned by ye bloudy Papists, ano 15.." (figures illegible), was still hanging against the panel over the fireplace in the west parlor at The Poplars. [6]
- It was Jane now who drew Susan out and shut the door of the parlor after them. [9]
- If you do not find the parlor wall big enough for all of England's history, continue it into the dining-room and into other rooms. [5]
- The editorial sanctum, news-room, press-room, publication office, bed-chamber, parlor, and kitchen were all compressed into one apartment and it was a small one, too. [5]
- We did not need a parlor at all, but they said it belonged to the two bedrooms and we might use it if we chose. [5]
- There was much mysterious whispering between Ephraim and Jethro in the hotel parlor after dinner, while Cynthia was turning over the leaves of a magazine, and then Ephraim proposed going out to see the sights. [9]
- He had a most comfortably and tastefully furnished parlor, with good pictures on the walls, Indian and Japanese ornaments on the mantel, and here and there, and books everywhere-largely mine; which made me proud. [5]
- There was the moment, I thought, when our souls had met in the little parlor in the Rue Bourbon. [9]
- A dark, sad-looking, middle-aged gentleman entered the parlor, with a young lady on his arm,--his daughter, as it seemed, for she was not wholly unlike him in feature, and of the same dark complexion. [6]
- They entered the little parlor at the Parsonage looking so beaming, that Olive and Bathsheba exchanged glances which implied so much that it would take a full page to tell it with all the potentialities involved. [6]
- Often during her lessons with Mr. Satterlee in the parlor of the parsonage she would hear a noise outside and perceive Jethro leaning against the pillar. [9]
- Societies, clubs, parlor lectures, readings, recitations, musicales, classes--it fatigues one to keep in sight of them. [4]
- Half an hour later he appeared in the parlor, serene, cheery, clothed in sunshine, conducting Helen, with his arm about her waist, petting her, and saying gentle and playful things to her; and she also was her sunny and happy self again. [5]
- Kitty Fagan answered its summons, and presently entered the parlor and announced that Mr. Bradshaw was in the library, and wished to see the ladies. [6]
- The walls around it were so gigantic, and everything about it was on so mighty a scale that it was belittled, by contrast, to what I have likened it to--a cozy and carpeted parlor. [5]
- In its parlor it had two sofas, which could become beds at night. [5]
- And now here is Jean's parlor looking just as that nursery used to look. [5]
- In the garden is a vine-covered arbor, with seats and tables, and at the end of it is the opening into a little chapel, a domestic chapel, carpeted like a parlor, and bearing all the emblems of a loving devotion. [4]
- He was shown into the parlor at The Poplars; and Kitty told Myrtle that he had called and inquired for her and was waiting down stairs. [6]
- The widow tottered into the parlor and sank into a chair with a gasp, and Rowena followed, tongue-tied and dazed. [5]
- She invited me into the little back parlor, closed the door; and we were alone. [5]
- She heard talking in the parlor, I peared like it was quarrelin'. [5]
- They were sitting in the parlor of the Tremont House that morning with the sun streaming in the windows, waiting for Ephraim. [9]
- Mrs. Brice was in the little parlor that Friday night, listening to the cry of the rain outside. [9]
- Mr. Eliphalet Hopper, in Sunday broadcloth, was seated on the landing, his head lowered to the level of the top of the high door of the parlor. [9]
- On other occasions, in other crisis, she had waited and watched for him in the parlor window, and to-night she was at the door before his key was in the lock, while he was still stamping the snow from his boots. [9]
- A lady sitting in her rocking and quaking parlor, saw the wall part at the ceiling, open and shut twice, like a mouth, and then-drop the end of a brick on the floor like a tooth. [5]
- We had supper in an inn near by, and a fair attempt at a fire in our parlor. [4]
- In my wanderings I visited Jean's parlor. [5]
- Looked lovely when I came out of the parlor. [6]
- Do you remember how we used to sit up in the little parlor back of your printing-office, and read Die Rauber and Die Theilung der Erde and Die Glocke? [8]
- Now the old house had wainscots, behind which the mice were always scampering and squeaking and rattling down the plaster, and enacting family scenes and parlor theatricals. [6]
- The artist had his reward, for when the picture was hung at length in the little parlor of the tannery house it became a source of pride to Coniston second only to Jethro himself. [9]
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