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  • They used to try to make fun of me, but I would console myself by drinking champagne and then lolling in a retiring-room.

    The Gambler 2003

  • The ladies went to their retiring-room, whilst the gentlemen drank more champagne, and arranged various Parisian amusements.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • The first thing I did, on reaching the retiring-room, was to give way to a fearful fascination and take another peep at the audience from behind a curtain at the side-entrance.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • Having reached the upper entry, I paused, and glanced at the audience through the windows, before entering the little retiring-room behind the stage.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • Two or three good photographs -- one of the Roman forum -- were in frames on the walls; a large mirror and a set of lock-boxes gave the teachers toilet accommodations; while baskets of knitting and other belongings bespoke this as the retiring-room of the lady teachers.

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

  • Behind the scenes were the postscenium, or retiring-room, and porticoes, to which, in case of sudden showers, the people retreated from the theatre.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • The inn was of two rooms: one a bedroom and retiring-room without a door.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

  • We yet use toilet, retiring-room and public comfort station in place of better terms, 53 and such idiotic forms as red-light district, disorderly-house, social disease and white slave ostensibly conceal what every flapper is talking about.

    Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words Henry Louis 1921

  • You will take your place with the gentlemen of my suite in the retiring-room.

    The Great Impersonation Oppenheim, E. Phillips 1920

  • Their guide paused and pointed to a small retiring-room, where several men were seated.

    The Great Impersonation Oppenheim, E. Phillips 1920

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