withdrawing room

Example Sentences

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The King received him in the Queen's withdrawing room, using him extraordinarily kindly.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

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

“I must see thee, my lord, alone,” she cried in such tones that her friend arose without a word and conducted her into his own withdrawing room.

From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by De Land, Clyde Osmer

Within, where the cross-lights fell through the wide columned space behind the high altar, was her withdrawing room, where the decorator and builder thought only of pleasing her.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Some two hundred girls and as many men were gathered there; the pit was their dancing ring and the gallery was their withdrawing room.

From The Christian A Story by Caine, Hall, Sir