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  • Gourlay perceived that Lucy shuddered at her external appearance, which we have already described when we found her in the death-chamber of blind

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • The house was in confusion, and under cover of it we walked up into the little salon adjoining the death-chamber.

    Gobseck 2007

  • The house was in confusion, and under cover of it we walked up into the little salon adjoining the death-chamber.

    Gobseck 2007

  • Doubtless it formed one of the ends of the death-chamber.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • In the death-chamber of a contemporary corpse Mme. de Guermantes would not have pointed out, but would immediately have perceived, all the lapses from the traditional customs.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • They followed him swiftly through a curtained doorway opposite the door of the death-chamber, and came into a corridor, into which various chambers opened.

    Rogues In The House Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The good old minister came freshly from the death-chamber of Governor Winthrop, who had passed from earth to heaven within that very hour.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • There was nothing more in this death-chamber to tell him anything.

    Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992

  • They followed him swiftly through a curtained doorway opposite the door of the death-chamber, and came into a corridor, into which various chambers opened.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • One or two had died of fever, or fallen in war; the rest were all here still, his inheritance from the death-chamber in Babylon.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

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