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Genius in the Drawing-Room, The Literary Salon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries edited by Peter Quennell looks right up my street.
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Genius in the Drawing-Room, The Literary Salon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries edited by Peter Quennell looks right up my street.
Bookhound finds... 2008
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There came to me a Person in Quality of a Nurse who, though in a mean servile Station, had something in her Behaviour and Discourse, that seem'd above her Profession: For her Words, Air, and Mien, appeared more like one entertaining Ladies in a Drawing-Room, than a Person whose Thoughts were charg'd with the Care of her sick Patients, and Hands with the Pains of administring to her own Necessities.
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Drawing-Room, and found the Door almost ready to give the Villains
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Drawing-Room — and very handsome she looked, a beautiful woman beautifully dressed — she went to show herself to her husband.
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They all nearly had brain fever with delight the day they watched Lady Gwendolen and Lady Muriel and Lady Doris, dressed in their Court trains and feathers, going to be presented at the first Drawing-Room.
The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006
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‘Drawing-Room Gazette’ in the British Museum, meaning that he did not want people to read his musical criticisms; nevertheless, I hope some day to come across back numbers containing his articles.
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New and improved Drawing-Room Coaches will accompany the 10: 00 A.M. train through to Buffalo, connecting at Hornellsville with magnificent Sleeping Coaches running through to Cleveland and Galion.
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Tickets for passage and for apartments in Drawing-Room and Sleeping
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Tickets for passage and for apartments in Drawing-Room and Sleeping
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