withdrawing room
Example Sentences
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Anthony followed her gratefully upstairs and presently into a small withdrawing room upon the first floor.
From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford
The King received him in the Queen's withdrawing room, using him extraordinarily kindly.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva
We of the peaceful professions—videlicet, my daughter Waller and I—did descend from the bartizan, and betook ourselves to the great withdrawing room, to wait for the result of the approach.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
From this hall we passed through another splendid apartment, called "the withdrawing room," down "the queen's staircase," into a court, containing a pretty fountain, and from thence into the gardens.
From Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Greenwood, Grace
The man retired, and Marlow entered what was then called the withdrawing room, walking up and down in thought.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
