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  • Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • "Were thou to bring a gentle cock to mine bed-chamber, I might help him to success for ten shillings."

    A Trio of Random Links Adam Whitehead 2010

  • The interior one of these was used for a bed-chamber for the boor [sic] himself, with his wife and children.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • An incredibly daring plan is put into play as Musketeers Aramis and Porthos kidnap King Louis from his bed-chamber in the castle—and imprison him in the Bastille.

    Marvel Comics Solicitations for August 2007 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • From a terraced roof of the Blacquernal palace, accessible by a sash-door, which opened from the bed-chamber of Ursel, there was commanded one of the most lovely and striking views which the romantic neighbourhood of Constantinople afforded.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Cautiously she went on, looking round at every step, to avoid any sudden encounter; but when she came to the bed-chamber gallery, she saw that the door of the room of Sir Hugh, by which she must necessarily pass, was wide open.

    Camilla 2008

  • Her bed-chamber is hidden in the sombre part of the ideal.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Vagrancy, that Gallic picareria, accepted the sewer as the adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, fierce and sly, through the Maubuee outlet, as into a bed-chamber.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • He had a separate library in each of his residences, and wherever he was residing, so many books lay about his bed-chamber, that it was hardly possible to stand or move without treading upon them.

    The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

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