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"Drawing room" Quotes from Famous Books

... cosy corner of the public drawing room and were conversing on this interesting topic when they espied A. Jones walking toward them. The youth was attired in immaculate evening dress, but his step was slow and dragging and ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne

... shrunk from an interview with him. She had sent him a line to let him know that she would be at home at four o'clock; and now she sat in her drawing room and observed, without emotion, that in five minutes ...

— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore

... fine paintings in the drawing room and exquisite statuary, and portfolios filled with rare Dutch engravings, besides many beautiful and curious things from China and Japan. The boys felt that it would require a month to examine all ...

— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge

... state of primitive simplicity, and bore till a comparatively recent date the same relation to its companion the fiddle, as do the early specimens of Delft ware and the exquisite Sevres specimens, which recline side by side in the cabinets of the delightfully incongruous nineteenth century drawing room. If you ask me to which of these conclusions I incline, I think the two deductions are to one another as three times two are to twice three, and that a combination of the two would probably account for the present misty aspect of the ...

— The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use - 'The Strad' Library, No. III. • Henry Saint-George

... her see herself out from the door of the drawing room, and then stood still in the middle of the floor with a hand on each side of her face. Not however considering the land question just then. She had seen Mr. Rollo but three times for a whole year,so ran ...

— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner

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