withdrawing room

Example Sentences

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Left by her father and mother to the further entertainment of Harbinger, Barbara had said: "Let's have coffee in here," and passed into the withdrawing room.

From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John

But a short time elapsed before the ladies were rejoined by the gentlemen in the withdrawing room, where we will leave them to look after some other friends of ours.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill

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

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

The apartment in which he stood was plainly but handsomely furnished as a small withdrawing room.

From The Cinema Murder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Here was the very occasion of which he had dreamed when he stayed behind in Lady Oxford's withdrawing room.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew