Owing to the rigid divisions at the top of the golf bags, which held the clubs apart to prevent their damaging each other, I had had to buy a bag that could be taken apart at the bottom - for cleaning - and in the castle's drying-room I had undone the necessary screws to take the bag apart, and had lodged the Cup inside. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)
He had served chiefly in a flag factory, and had had very little to do save to push a trolley with flags from the dyeing-room to the drying-room I believe it was this. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So Polly tried to console herself by jumping rope in the back-yard, and playing tag with Maud in the drying-room, where she likewise gave lessons in "nas-gim-nics," as Maud called it, which did that little person good. ❋ Unknown (1950)
A drying-room was established at Battalion Headquarters in the village, in a large cellar, fitted with double-tier wire beds, stoves, and braziers. ❋ W. C. C. Weetman (N/A)
And, says the war diary, no straw was provided for the billets, no coke, coal, or wood for the drying-room, and no facilities for drying or cleaning clothes. ❋ Fred W. Ward (N/A)
I came out to the drying-room, and made them think I was General GRANT, by calling for a cigar. ❋ Various (N/A)
This pulp is passed into other vats thoroughly mixed with water, blueing, and some other substances calculated to give it a hard finish, and then conveyed by pipes to the drying-room, where it is distributed over the surface of fine wire netting stretched on cylinders and looking much like "skim milk." ❋ Margaret E. Winslow (N/A)
The school-room was a large apartment in the basement of the factory which had been used as a drying-room until it became necessary to find for the increasing numbers of the little flock more spacious accommodations. ❋ Various (N/A)
I have also invented an automatic crane for hanging the paper on the rods in the drying-room. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1927)
Without the slightest difficulty the door opened, revealing the blackness of the drying-room beyond! ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
For lack of a yard, Mrs. Adams made a drying-room out of the great unfinished audience room. ❋ Allen Johnson (1900)
Then he goes into a big warm plunge bath, from which he goes into a drying-room, and beyond this is a dressing-room, where he gets a club shirt and pair of shorts to wear for the evening, till it is time to get into his own clothes to go home again. ❋ Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell Of Gilwell (1899)
And if we were wet, there was a great drying-room off the kitchen premises where our clothes were dried by a housemaid who really understood the business. ❋ William Le Queux (1895)
