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  • "I thoucht yer lordship wad like to see an auld stair I cam upo 'the ither day,' at gangs frae the wizard's chaumer --"

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

  • -- But 'deed maybe he's come back, an' 's i 'my chaumer the noo!

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • -- But I doobt gien ever ye could hae come to ken her as she was -- sic a bonny, herty sowl as ance dwalt in yon white-faced, patient thing, lyin i 'the chaumer there -- wi' the stang oot o 'her hert at last, and left the sharper i' mine!

    Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

  • For he crossed himsel 'an' gaed straucht for the bridal chaumer.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • But the sort of whilk we noo speak, are a waur sort a'thegither; for they come to the inside o 'yer hoose, o' yer verra chaumer, an 'hing oot their lang lugs to hear what ye carena to be hard save by a dooce frien' or twa ower a het tum'ler. '

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • "I thoucht yer lordship wad like to see an auld stair I cam upo 'the ither day,' at gang's frae the wizard's chaumer."

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • "Come awa ', Maister Sutherlan'; come ben to yer ain chaumer," said she, leading the way to the room she still called the study.

    David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

  • Dinna think onything atween you an 'her wad hae brocht me at this time o' nicht to disturb ye in yer ain chaumer.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • Conspiracy, and I durst never let a woman ken of the entrance to it, or your honour will allow that it wad not hae been a secret chaumer lang.”

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • “For wha,” said he, “would have thought of the secret chaumer being needed?

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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