waitingroom

There was only one other person in the waitingroom when I got there.

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And, while Leora Duncan was posing for her portrait, into the waitingroom bounded Dr. Hitz himself.

2 B R 0 2 B Kurt Vonnegut 1964

However, he seemed very friendly and affable toward me personally once the chill air of the waitingroom had been left behind and as Button Fles had advised me insistently to entertain without regard to expense any officials with whom I came in contact, I thought it politic to invite him to dinner.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

I walked with the chief dispatcher into the airport waitingroom, dull with the listless air, not of unoccupancy, but disuse.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

When we arrived at the waitingroom a lot of people came in and looked at us, and talked so much about us, that it made me feel rather shy.

Two Years in the Forbidden City 1911

They were then conducted to the waitingroom, but there were so many of them that we Court ladies had to stand outside on the veranda.

Two Years in the Forbidden City 1911

All the rest of the Court ladies were in the waitingroom and were anxious to know how I would get out of it, and when I told them they said that had it been any of them there would have been a fine row.

Two Years in the Forbidden City 1911

When we came back to our waitingroom, the Young Empress said to me that Her Majesty was very much worried for the poor farmers and that she would pray for rain, and stop eating meat for two or three days.

Two Years in the Forbidden City 1911

This was supposed to be used by the Court ladies as their waitingroom.

Two Years in the Forbidden City 1911

Her Majesty's own Palace was high; it had twelve steps, while our waitingroom, which was on the left side of her Palace, was built right on the ground, with no raised foundation at all.

Two Years in the Forbidden City 1911