Parlour

Examples

• Entering the open passage, she tapped at the door of the private parlour, unfastened it, and looked in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The girl had a little parlour to sit in, away from the noise of the taproom, and a clean bedchamber at the top of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Still, she could not quit her seat at the little parlour window. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This done, they returned to the house, and, being shown into a parlour, took off their great-coats and hats, and showed like what they were. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whinbury, walk forward into the little parlour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It shall be a parlour-curtain lecture. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She pinched her husband's arm as they entered the oak parlour, where Sir Pitt and his wife were ready to receive them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Such luxury of grief, however, is only allowed to parlour-boarders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The bar-maid appeared from the inner regions of the parlour, excited and preoccupied. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The little parlour-maid came out, with the key in her hand; and looking earnestly at me as she unlocked the gate, said: 'I beg your pardon, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I took it from her hand: she pointed me out the parlour door. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He could not--he would not--renounce his wild field of mission warfare for the parlours and the peace of Vale Hall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• All the parlours are empty, said he. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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