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 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)
“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)
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
Some two hundred girls and as many men were gathered there; the pit was their dancing ring and the gallery was their withdrawing room.
From The Christian A Story by Caine, Hall, Sir
