Apartment

Examples

• This thrown open, admitted him to his own private apartment of three rooms: his bed-chamber and two others. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Allow him to speak with none, nor permit any other to enter this apartment before he comes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Your words are bitter, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, pacing the apartment with impatience, but I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mrs. Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment at the Bank, on the shadier side of the frying street. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Elgitha left the apartment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Well, call up this evening, between six and seven, and you shall have my answer, said Mr. Shelby, and the trader bowed himself out of the apartment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• An apartment at court provided for the author. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The empress's apartment on fire by an accident; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But, now, the breakfast hour arrived; and with it Miss Fanny from her apartment, and Mr Edward from his apartment. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And even if she were not, the sound of the bell would penetrate every recess of her tiny apartment, and rouse her to answer her friend's call. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And, in the general confusion that ensued, Miss Ophelia made her escape to her apartment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In another moment I was within that apartment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A moment later our modest apartment, already so distinguished that morning, was further honoured by the entrance of the most lovely woman in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Methought the apartment only was changed, being of different proportions and dimensions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Marie rose and threw herself out of the apartment into her own, when she fell into violent hysterics. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then the kind hostess conducted her guests to the snug apartments blazing with cheerful fires. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Besides those which are of common observation it is used for lighting the interior of mines, caves, and the dark apartments of ships, and does not foul the air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The _hypocaust_ was a hot-air furnace built in the basement or cellar of the house and from which the heat was conducted by flues to the bath rooms and other apartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The apartments were restored to their pristine splendour, and the park, all disrepairs restored, was guarded with unusual care. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The snakes invaded her domestic apartments, and history is not clear whether Philip found in them matter for exasperation or religious awe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My uncle, Mr. Fairlie, never joins us at any of our meals: he is an invalid, and keeps bachelor state in his own apartments. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Will Haught introduced my maid to a female servant, whom he had himself hired, and whom he desired to show her mistress's apartments to my woman. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Whereabouts were your apartments, Mr. Pickwick? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The brilliantly lighted apartments of the first floor told me where first to seek, and advancing to the windows I peered within. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• We have each separate apartments, in the same hotel, they replied, and I agreed to call on them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• These canes are terminated by tubes of pipe-clay, to prevent their being burnt, and other bamboo canes conduct the gas intended for lighting the streets, and into large apartments and kitchens. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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