withdrawing room
Example Sentences
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We found a stately, well-furnished, and convenient house; and I had my closet, or library, and my withdrawing room, all in complete order, which Mr. B. gave me possession of in the most obliging manner.
From Pamela, Volume II by Samuel Richardson
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 Grace Greenwood
The creek bed was a withdrawing room in which to retire from the eternal black soil and level corn-fields of Iowa.
From The Brown Mouse by Herbert Quick
His milk he always drinks in a withdrawing room, that it may not be discovered, for that would be too apparent, nor has he any other shift to evade the discerning eye of the observers.
From The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé by Harry Houdini
“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 Clyde Osmer De Land
