withdrawing room
Example Sentences
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She groped her way to the door, unlocked it, and passed into the withdrawing room.
From Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Greenwood, Grace
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
It is not exactly the apartment," she continued, "which I would design for a lady's withdrawing room.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru
“Very glad to see you, indeed, in my—little sanctum, my withdrawing room, if I may venture to use the name, to which I retire during the intervals of business.”
From Fighting the Flames by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
