reception-rooms

The bedrooms were scarcely less magnificently furnished than the reception-rooms; with chairs formed of stag-horns, tables inlaid with agates, and hangings of Damascus cashmere, richly embossed with gold.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

There were six or eight magnificent reception-rooms, furnished in various styles — the Mediaeval, the Elizabethan, the

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The carpets of the reception-rooms are generally of rich Kidderminster, or velvet pile; an air of elegance and cleanliness pervades these superb dwellings; they look the height of comfort.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

In London the bedrooms are generally inconvenient and uncomfortable, being sacrificed to the reception-rooms; in New York this is not the case.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

On hearing this I rose, and Philippe opened the door of the small drawing-room which leads into the reception-rooms.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

Moslem women, I had two separate reception-rooms, and went from one to the other, as the women will not unveil before strange men.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

He gave quiet little dinners still, at which Clive was present sometimes: and had a private door and key to his apartments, which were separated by all the dreary length of the reception-rooms from the mirrored chamber and jonquil couch where the Princess and Betsy reposed.

The Newcomes 2006

For this reason, in combination with the fact that the house was all but afloat at high water, when the Porters had a family wash the linen subjected to that operation might usually be seen drying on lines stretched across the reception-rooms and bed-chambers.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The girls fell into circular rank behind their mother, and thus following her and carrying out the fragments, they left the reception-rooms in a manner not altogether devoid of dignity.

Barchester Towers 2004

There are large state reception-rooms, including a ball-room, and suites of apartments for the use of the Governor of the Straits Settlements, the

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004