salle-a-manger love

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  • When Anatole came in with coffee, Berry was in such high courage, that he told him to go to the deuce with it; and we never caught sight of Lady Pash more, except when, muffled up to the nose, she passed through the salle-a-manger to go to her carriage, in which Dobus and the parson were likewise to be transported to

    Mens Wives 2006

  • The signal being given to descend to the salle-a-manger, the German composer was invited by his noble host

    Mens Wives 2006

  • We found in the salle-a-manger a strong smell of an extinguished lamp, and Mrs. Berry was snuffing out the, candles on the sideboard.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • ‘She spoke very bitterly to you in the salle-a-manger,’ he said.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • To sit at the Tremont House, and hear the captain after dinner give his opinion on international law, would have been better sport for the prisoners than the grim salle-a-manger at Fort Warren.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • However, I heard him in the salle-a-manger drawing the corks, which went off with a CLOOP, and that consoled me.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • Waymarsh appeared before him during his brief consumption of coffee and a roll in the small slippery salle-a-manger so associated with rich rumination.

    The Ambassadors 2003

  • Edith entered with enthusiasm into all the arrangements necessary on the occasion, and was materially assisted by the good taste and judgment of Arthur, to whom she turned for counsel when at fault as to the grouping of statuary or position of pictures, and the _toute ensemble_ of the _salle-a-manger_.

    Vellenaux A Novel

  • The cool salle-a-manger is reached through the general living-room and kitchen, which is largely filled with the table where you may see the proprietor and his family partaking of their own meals.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923

  • The cool salle-a-manger is reached through the general living-room and kitchen, which is largely filled with the table where you may see the proprietor and his family partaking of their own meals.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 Gordon Home 1923

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