Bedroom
['bedruːm;-rʊm] or ['bɛdrum]
Definition
(n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
(n.) Room in a bed.
Edited by Francine
Examples
- She usually followed him; but he heard her passing down the passage to her bedroom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He left the smoky, gossip-filled room and went into the back bedroom and sat down on the bed and pulled his boots off. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mr. Godfrey took advantage of this hesitation to get back again to his bedroom before you came out, and discovered him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- 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.
- Eustacia turned, entered the house, and ascended to the front bedroom, where a shaded light was burning. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He remained on guard in the bedroom where the crime was committed, so as to see that nothing was touched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He turned past the door of the parental bedroom like a shadow, and was climbing the second flight of stairs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Having uttered this soliloquy, and looked after Job till he was to be seen no more, Mr. Weller made the best of his way to his master's bedroom. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Madame, _la voiture est à la porte_, said my French maid, as she entered my bedroom. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She ascended to her bedroom and dressed herself with scrupulous care. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She was engaged at the moment in hanging some curtains in the upstairs front bedroom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When the family have retired to rest, we shall come out of the kitchen, and the young lady out of her bedroom. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In my haste and my agitation I left the door of the ante-chamber open, but I closed the door of the bedroom the moment I was inside it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I'll have new chintz for her bedroom, and make it look new and bright, and cheer her up a little. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A private sitting-room having been engaged, bedrooms inspected, and dinner ordered, the party walked out to view the city and adjoining neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I should like, for example, to see how far the windows of the bedrooms command the front. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms being in the central block of the buildings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have a little plan of alteration for your bedrooms too, which may now be performed without any inconvenience to any one. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Finally, on the top corridor, which ran outside three untenanted bedrooms, he again was seized with a spasm of merriment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I generally had hall bedrooms, because they were cheap and I needed money to buy apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I went in, as usual, through the door between our two bedrooms, to bid Laura good-night before she went to sleep. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There were long galleries, and ancient state bedrooms, there were pictures and old China, and armour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As I have said, there was a broad corridor there, which ran outside three empty bedrooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In reaching the door he would have to pass seven bedrooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Out of this landing opened the drawing-room and several bedrooms, including those of Mr. Cunningham and his son. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was dinner prepared, and there were bedrooms ready, and everything was arranged as if by magic. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We found the girl sweeping the corridor outside the bedrooms, pale and composed, and neat as ever in her modest print dress. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Of these bedrooms the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third my own. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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