withdrawing room

Example Sentences

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My "best" room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

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 Quick, Herbert

On the left was the long enfilade of reception rooms, with the vast audience chamber and milor's own withdrawing room beyond.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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 Houdini, Harry

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)