drawingrooms

George doffed his tricorn hat and used it to fan himself as though he were the commonest sort of country bumpkin and not the darling of a dozen London drawingrooms.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

After giving many recitals in fashionable drawingrooms, she returned to Canada, and made her first tour to the Pacific Coast, giving recitals at all the cities and towns en route.

Legends of Vancouver 1911

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat, puts whole drawingrooms to flight.

XII. Essays. Manners. 1844 1909

On the English railways the first class carriages are empty: in the United States the "reserved drawingrooms" are full.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

'Anybody can look into their front drawingrooms; and remember whatever

Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

When all was done Dorothea stationed herself at a window near the street; while Diane, with a curious shrinking from what she had to face, took her seat in the remotest and obscurest corner in the more distant of the two drawingrooms.

The Inner Shrine Basil King 1893

Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of wood-craft, and I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood - cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawingrooms of all the "Wreaths" and "Flora's chaplets" of the bookshops; yet ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic, or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.

Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

Not on Ilion's plains; how much less in Mayfair's drawingrooms!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Is not Pandarus Dogdraught a member of select clubs, and admitted into the drawingrooms of men?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Not on Ilion's plains; how much less in Mayfair's drawingrooms!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838