-- "Miss Judson, please tell those people in the reception-room to be patient." ❋ Unknown (2010)
For which reason, one morning at eleven, taking Kwaque along, he called at Walter Merritt Emory's office and waited his turn in the crowded reception-room. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Doctor Emory continued to talk, and tried a fresh cigar, and, despite the fact that his reception-room was overflowing, delivered, not merely a long, but a live and interesting, dissertation on the subject of cigars and of the tobacco leaf and filler as grown and prepared for cigars in the tobacco-favoured regions of the earth. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He made a deep bow, and went through the reception-room into the hall. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
He entered a sort of reception-room, but a door beyond stood open, and the newspaper man went confidently forward. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
Paula Wendell was waiting for them in the reception-room of the studio with which she was connected. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
At that moment the door leading from the reception-room into the hallway opened, and an odd little group came in. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
Edmonds omits the word twice; Garnett once; while Briggs removes the repetition altogether by omitting the noun twice and using two rather different words ( "reception-room" and "waiting-room") on the other occasions. ❋ Figes, Orlando (2007)
She took us into the reception-room, when water and scented soap were brought in carved brass ewers and basins, incense was waved before us, and we were sprinkled with rose-water, whilst an embroidered gold canopy was held over our heads to concentrate the perfume. ❋ Unknown (2006)
His dwelling was a big mud house, with a large reception-room, where we found a big fire. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It had evidently been the ballroom or reception-room of the defunct Marchesa in palmy days. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A crowd appeared to mount the stair; the great doors of the reception-room were flung open, and two pages announced their Majesties the Emperor and the Empress. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Georgy went into the reception-room and saw two strangers, whom he looked at with his head up, in his usual haughty manner. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I showed him into the reception-room, the great sala of the old palazzo. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There flashed across her mind the beautiful reception-room, library, parlor, and boudoirs of the Cowperwoods, which were now being arranged and about which Anna Cowperwood talked to her so much — their dainty, lovely triangular grand piano in gold and painted pink and blue. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Oh, the agony of that walk from the bedroom to the reception-room! ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Henry Cowperwood domicile was much more pretentious, the reception-room, parlor, music-room, and conservatory being in this case all on the ground floor and much larger. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She wore yellow silk slippers with bronze buckles; and altogether her appearance was not out of keeping with the character of the reception-room itself, which was a composite of gold-flowered wall-paper, blue and cream-colored Brussels carpet, heavily gold-framed engravings of reclining nudes, and a gilt-framed pier-glass, which rose from the floor to the ceiling. ❋ Unknown (2004)
At half-past nine the bishop and his wife and their three daughters entered the great reception-room, and very grand and very solemn they were. ❋ Unknown (2004)
