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  • A plainly-furnished work-room in the house of HALVARD SOLNESS.

    The Master Builder 2008

  • A plainly-furnished work-room in the house of HALVARD SOLNESS.

    The Master Builder 2008

  • Accompanied by one of these nominal directresses, she was admitted and shown into a large, plainly-furnished parlor.

    Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

  • "Remain here a moment, and I will bring him before you," said the stranger, pointing to a chair that stood in the plainly-furnished room.

    The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia Allan Arnold

  • Too soon for one of them their brief walk was ended, and Susan sat in the neat, plainly-furnished parlor waiting the return of Mr. Falconer, who had gone to seek his sister.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

  • An Arab boy answered her knock, said that the Father was in and led her at once to a small, plainly-furnished room, with whitewashed walls, and

    The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • It made her wonder how he passed his solitary evenings when he went home from the hotel, and she fancied him sitting in some plainly-furnished little room with Bous-Bous and a few books, smoking a pipe and thinking sadly of the White Fathers of Africa and of his frustrated desire for complete renunciation.

    The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • I was led beyond and behind them, and in a moment was ushered into a small, plainly-furnished room; and at a desk covered with papers sat Doddridge Knapp, the picture of the Wolf in his den.

    Blindfolded Earle Ashley Walcott 1895

  • Accompanied by one of these nominal directresses, she was admitted and shown into a large, plainly-furnished parlor.

    Elizabeth Fry Pitman, E R 1884

  • There were hours in his life when he sat alone in his own room -- that plainly-furnished chamber which was half study, half dressing-room -- withdrawing himself from his guests under pretence of having business-letters to write to his people at Bradford and Leeds; sat with his open desk before him, and made no attempt to write; sat brooding over thoughts of his young wife, and regretting the folly of his marriage.

    The Lovels of Arden 1875

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