But come to my tiring-room, girl; we must be brave, my lord comes hither to-night. — ❋ Unknown (2004)
Varney replied to the lady, that his lord purposed to attend her; and would have proceeded with some compliment, when, running to the door of the parlour, she called aloud, “Janet — Janet! come to my tiring-room instantly.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
Only when they were all outside did Father Lukas remember that the precious books and parchments were all in the tiring-room. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)
Only when they reached the end where the tiring-room had been did Lukas realize that not all the books and papers would have been destroyed. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)
Father Lukas's church was not large, but it was solidly built, and there was room enough inside it for at least a hundred villagers -- standing, for no space was wasted on benches in Orthodox churches -- and a tiring-room behind and to the right of the altar. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)
Father Lukas drew him toward the tiring-room; just before they got there, Brother Sergei burst through, almost crashing into them before he realized they were there. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)
No sooner had Sergei disappeared into the tiring-room behind the altar, however, than the thick-bodied peasant woman turned away from the candle she had been lighting, glanced up at Ivan, and immediately ducked her head and hurried away. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)
Attire is simple, when the woods are the tiring-room. ❋ Various (N/A)
The first apartment we entered was a sort of tiring-room, where along the walls hung the shawls and black sun-bonnets of the sisters. ❋ Various (N/A)
Behind the curtain was the tiring-room (_nepathya_), whence the actors came on the stage. ❋ R. N. Dutta (N/A)
Then, converting the parlor into a private tiring-room, she dressed her in proper clothes, and presently led her forth to say farewell. ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (N/A)
On another occasion, much later, Thorsteinn and Spes were sitting in a tiring-room where dresses were kept which belonged to them, both made up and in the piece. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
At last came back again and went in, where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up to the tiring-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very poor and the actors but common fellows. ❋ Joseph Quincy Adams (1913)
And Mrs. Payne, who was Hugo's first cousin, had kissed Carlisle when they met in the tiring-room, and hoped very prettily that they were going to be friends. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)
And she hurried away to her tiring-room to don her finest raiment. ❋ Unknown (1905)
"Thy mother waits thee, Francis, in her tiring-room," interposed Lord ❋ Lucy Foster Madison (1898)
"The Bride's Prelude" -- a fragment -- opens with the bride's confession to her sister, in the 'tiring-room sumptuous with gold and jewels and brocade, where the air is heavy with musk and myrrh, and sultry with the noon. ❋ Unknown (1886)
It might not have appeared an impossibility, I should say, to ordinary people, but the household of Crewe regarded it as such, and accordingly, on the night of the Bilberry gathering, accompanied Dolly in a body to her tiring-room. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
The girls of the olapa, their work in the tiring-room completed, lift their voices in a spirited song, and with a lively motion pass out into the hall to bloom before the waiting assembly in the halau in all the glory of their natural charms and adornments: ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)
She was not admitted at the front entrance, but from the tiring-room at the back whence the performers enter. ❋ John Charles Dent (1864)
