back-parlour

• “He pooh-poohed my thanks jovially-I was sitting up in my cot in Barclay's back-parlour looking pale and interesting-and was all agog to know who I was, for there hadn't been time to introduce myself before I'd keeled over, and how I'd come to be booming up from the Jornada with paint on my face and a war-party at my heels.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “He belonged to some female, chiefly inhabiting a back-parlour, whose life appears to us to have been consumed in sniffing, and in wearing a brown beaver bonnet.”

  Reprinted Pieces

• “Miss Cann dines with Mrs. Ridley in the adjoining little back-parlour.”

  The Newcomes

• “The few friends who visited Miss Honeyman in her back-parlour had their Sallies, in discussing whose peculiarities of disposition these good ladies passed the hours agreeably over their tea.”

  The Newcomes

• “My master rung in the back-parlour, and so I withdrew, and Mrs. Jervis went to attend him.”

  Pamela

• “I agreed to take the back-parlour for the night, and while a”

  The Great Hoggarty Diamond

• “They had seen me reading out of the prayer-book at the back-parlour window, and all burst into a yell of laughter when I came to walk in the cage.”

  The Great Hoggarty Diamond

• “I never had an opening; but I have sat on Jessy's stool by your chair in the back-parlour at Briarmains, for evenings together, listening excitedly to your talk, half-admiring what you said, and half-rebelling against it.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “He was already half-way across - three steps more would have anchored him in the harbour of the back-parlour - when the front door opened, and there stood Matthew.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “Ere ascending to his chamber he paid a secret visit to the dining-room, a still, cold, stately apartment, seldom used; for the family customarily dined in the back-parlour.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

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