withdrawing room

Example Sentences

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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)

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 Richardson, Samuel

A large apartment at the east end of the warehouses will be reserved as a withdrawing room for the ladies, and is partitioned off for that purpose. 

From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various

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

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

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