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  • It waited in the anteroom off the main basilica to be fitted for the plain wooden coffin.†   (source)
  • Before long we were waiting in an anteroom of the palace alongside other girls from schools all over the country.†   (source)
  • Long before 9:00 we were standing in the big wooden anteroom of Administration.†   (source)
  • I was led to an adjoining anteroom—a smaller office, where some of the eight had gathered.†   (source)
  • A play, a tragedy in one act: I to leave her in his little parlor and confide to him in the anteroom that she was to die.†   (source)
  • Ritter walked into the hall without passing through the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Start by ....Eragon stared at the tray of dinner left in the anteroom of the tree house.†   (source)
  • Paul led the way through an anteroom and into a chamber with dark, wine-colored hangings on its walls.†   (source)
  • She stood up from the toilet, flushed it, and went into the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Three monks in gray cloaks and rope belts worked in an anteroom, getting the day's shipment ready.†   (source)
  • "Wait here," the officer said, and he left me sitting in a small anteroom.†   (source)
  • She left the cell and made her way up the many stairs of the palace to her private anteroom.†   (source)
  • We were led out of the elevator through a rococo hall into an anteroom and told to get into our fighting togs.†   (source)
  • The steel door of Apfel's office closed behind him; within seconds he would walk out of the tasteful anteroom cell, into the reception room and over to the elevators.†   (source)
  • Holabird and Hungerford retreated with Ruiz and Montes in an anteroom and scoured their copies of the treaty.†   (source)
  • And they walked past him, out of the anteroom and down a corridor.†   (source)
  • The assistant opened a door that led to a small anteroom.†   (source)
  • In the anteroom, the clerks of James Taggart's personal staff were switching off the lights, getting ready to leave for the day.†   (source)
  • My husband entered the anteroom.†   (source)
  • A restroom down the hall had a small anteroom with an open doorway leading back into the hall.†   (source)
  • On each side of the main room were what appeared to be small anterooms, the entrances covered by black curtains.†   (source)
  • His long-suffering secretary, the implacable Madame Treville, occupied an orderly desk in the anteroom, and at the opposite end of a narrow hall was the office of Rousseau's deputy, Christian Bouchard.†   (source)
  • From what appeared to be a small, well-appointed anteroom, he ushered two cadets into the office: John Alexander, the second battalion commander, and his exec, a spaniel-eyed boy named Wayne Braselton, whose identity was irretrievably fastened to the destiny of the fiercer, more charismatic Alexander.†   (source)
  • She lunched with the Americans at the end of one of the long tables, and took coffee with them in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • In due course Adam gave his name to a clerk and went to sit in an anteroom.†   (source)
  • Firkin arrived in the anteroom about a week ago, carrying a manuscript box and two suitcases.†   (source)
  • He was excitedly interrupted by the Sergeant at Arms, who told him that even then—two hours before the Senate was to meet—the chamber, the galleries, the anterooms and even the corridors of the Capitol were filled with those who had been traveling for days from all parts of the nation to hear Daniel Webster.†   (source)
  • Up a flight of steps to an anteroom.†   (source)
  • Eleanor Dokes had tended to the jurors; they were gathered in the anteroom getting coats on.†   (source)
  • Paul whirled, ran back through the anteroom and out onto the atrium lip above the outer chamber.†   (source)
  • She found herself in a stone anteroom with four doors, one on each wall.†   (source)
  • And what had he been up to for so long in that miniature anteroom?†   (source)
  • And I started off the floor, heading for the anteroom with the rest of the boys.†   (source)
  • In an anteroom to the counsel chamber, Attolia turned to Teleus.†   (source)
  • A single lamp was burning in a corner of the dimmed anteroom.†   (source)
  • I followed June past the two officers and through the anteroom.†   (source)
  • She knew, the moment she entered the anteroom of her office, that something had happened.†   (source)
  • She and June were talking quietly on one side of the anteroom.†   (source)
  • From the doorway to an anteroom, an attendant appeared.†   (source)
  • She went back to her office and, crossing the anteroom, signaled Eddie to follow her inside.†   (source)
  • He came-all three of them came-I saw the two others in my anteroom and let them in.†   (source)
  • The apartment was silent; a wedge of light cut across the anteroom from a door left half-open.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Ward had gone, Rearden came out into the anteroom.†   (source)
  • She ran through the dark anteroom, she threw the door open and looked out.†   (source)
  • He took her to the cabin and went back to the anteroom himself to wait for her.†   (source)
  • As the Rhodopsin cap flew up into the anteroom, Reich averted his eyes.†   (source)
  • A flight of steps led down to a round anteroom rimmed with doors.†   (source)
  • At the bottom of the stairs, in an anteroom, he found Levant slowly paging through the Saturday Evening Post beside a kerosene floor heater.†   (source)
  • Ed Soames apologized to the members of the jury for the inferior nature of their accommodations and pointed out to them the urn of coffee in the anteroom, which they were welcome to serve themselves from—the coffee was hot—at any time during the day's recesses.†   (source)
  • Her father was waiting in the anteroom, pacing nervously, his hands worrying the change in his pocket.†   (source)
  • They stood in the anteroom of the funeral home near Third Avenue, where twenty or thirty men were smoking and talking.†   (source)
  • She kept picturing the following scene: She had come out of the toilet and her body was standing in the anteroom naked and spurned.†   (source)
  • Standing there in the anteroom, she tried to withstand the strong desire to burst out crying in his presence.†   (source)
  • He had wanted to ask where she'd come from and what had become of Kamet, who should have been sleeping in the anteroom, but if all she brought was a message, he was willing to hear it.†   (source)
  • The cousins, who idolized the minister of war, increased their attacks on Eugenides, and bad feelings grew until Eddis had moved him out of the boys' dormitory and into the only free room that she could think of, an anteroom to the rarely used palace library.†   (source)
  • Whathad he been up to in that anteroom?†   (source)
  • In the course of his suspiciously long absence, the engineer could only have been setting up a movie camera in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • With no anterooms between it and the hallway outside, and with a row of load-bearing pillars dividing the room in two, it was awkwardly sized and located.†   (source)
  • The entire flat consisted of a single room with a curtain setting off the first five or six feet from the rest and therefore forming a kind of makeshift anteroom.†   (source)
  • She imagined what it would have been like if the woman standing in the anteroom had been one of Tomas's mistresses and if the man inside had been Tomas.†   (source)
  • The look on the faces of her staff, as she entered the anteroom, was the look of drowning persons at the sight of a lifeline.†   (source)
  • She knew, crossing the anteroom, that the faces of her staff were turned to her, but they seemed to be many years away.†   (source)
  • The rest of her staff had gone, when she entered the anteroom of her office, but Eddie Willers was still there, waiting for her.†   (source)
  • When she glanced at the clock on the wall of the anteroom, she caught the secretary glancing at it at the same time.†   (source)
  • The anteroom of her office was dark, when he entered, except for the lighted glass cubbyhole of Eddie Willers.†   (source)
  • Then he saw the staff in the anteroom around him, and the blond head of Eddie Willers in the glass cubbyhole.†   (source)
  • No one had seen her come in; the anteroom of her office was empty; the great Taggart Building seemed unusually quiet.†   (source)
  • The anteroom of the office was full.†   (source)
  • Now they call it the torture chamber or the anteroom-because everyone has to enter the valley through my house.†   (source)
  • Through the open door of his study, James Taggart had seen Cherryl cross the anteroom and walk out of the apartment.†   (source)
  • The anxiety vanished when she entered the anteroom of Ken Danagger's office: she had reached him, nothing had happened to prevent it, she felt safety, confidence and an enormous sense of relief.†   (source)
  • Rushing out of the room, in defiance of all the faces around him, he went running down the halls to the Operating Department and into the anteroom of the Operating Vice-President's office.†   (source)
  • James Taggart crossed the anteroom of Dagny's office, still holding the kind of confidence he had felt among his companions at the barroom half an hour ago.†   (source)
  • She met Jim in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • She took a long time settling down in an armchair, arranging and rearranging her bag, her gloves, the folds of her dress, while droning, "It's a fine thing when a mother has to wait in an anteroom and ask permission of a stenographer before she's allowed to see her own son who—"†   (source)
  • She had been dimly aware of the usual sound of movement and voices in the anteroom of her office, as her staff had arrived to begin their day; she wondered why nobody had entered her office and why her telephone had remained silent; as a daily rule, there should have been a rush of business by this hour.†   (source)
  • That morning the voice she heard from the anteroom outside Hoss's office in the attic was identical to that of the man in the dream.†   (source)
  • We awaited the verdict in the small anteroom across the hall where witnesses were sequestered before being called in to testify.†   (source)
  • There was practically no one in the building; he walked up tothe anteroom and there he found Dwight Towers in uniform, and alone.†   (source)
  • Seconds later, when he brushed past her in the little anteroom, Durrfeld clearly did not recognize Sophie—this pallid Polish woman in her stained prisoner's smock—but as he inadvertently touched her he did say "Bitter with instinctive politeness and in the same polished gentleman's tones she recalled from Cracow.†   (source)
  • At one time this low rambling edifice with its slanted slate roof had been a storage warehouse for vegetables, and the Germans obviously found its architecture congenial to their purpose; the large underground grotto where turnips and potatoes had been piled high was perfectly suited to the asphyxiation of people en masse, just as the adjoining anterooms were so naturally fit for the installation of cremation ovens as to appear almost custom-made.†   (source)
  • Dwight Towers had telephoned to him to meet him at ten forty-five in the anteroom to the office of the First Naval Member.†   (source)
  • She leaped to her feet, darted out of his sodden grasp, ran to the jewelled door, flung it open and ran into the anteroom.†   (source)
  • The usual line was assembled in the anteroom of the Esper Guild Institute when Lincoln Powell entered.†   (source)
  • Moodily, Powell took leave of the Lab Chief, loafed through the anteroom and descended to field headquarters in the picture gallery.†   (source)
  • He poised the Rhodospin cap, then thrust open the bronze door, revealing nine steps mounting to an anteroom.†   (source)
  • Two guards in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • I dreamed that I was waiting in an old-fashioned anteroom.†   (source)
  • In the dark cubbyhole of Cameron's anteroom stood a desk with a telephone and a typewriter.†   (source)
  • He had had an anteroom, leading into his surgery, installed, equipped for dealing with patients on arrival.†   (source)
  • The children screamed hysterically at the first sight of the needle and their mothers, waiting in the anteroom, threw their shawls over their heads and keened loudly as if wailing for the dead.†   (source)
  • She had made a bargain with Sir Meliagrance—whose heart was not really in the business of being a blackguard—that, if she called her defenders off, he must promise to take the wounded knights with her to his castle, and he must let them sleep in the anteroom of her chamber.†   (source)
  • Your grandfather got him out, quashed the indictment and paid the fine and brought him back to his office and talked to him while Judith waited in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • McGuire's anteroom was empty.†   (source)
  • This she flung open, standing aside to let me pass, and I came to a little anteroom, or boudoir, furnished with a sofa, chairs, and writing-desk, which opened out to a large double bedroom with wide windows and a bathroom beyond.†   (source)
  • Then, stepping out of the studio into an anteroom full of waiting newsmen, Toohey said: "No, of course I won't press any charges.†   (source)
  • In the eyes of two reporters who emerged from an elevator in the lobby; in the pose of the elevator man who fought a desire to turn and stare back at him; in the sudden immobility of all the men in his anteroom, in the break of a typewriter's clicking on the desk of one secretary, in the lifted hand of another—he saw the waiting.†   (source)
  • A nurse admitted Carley into a small bare anteroom.†   (source)
  • In an anteroom was the office of the chairman of the executive committee.†   (source)
  • Noticing this, he put out his cigarette, rose, pressed her hand, and went out into the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Is it the custom in Marseilles for sons to keep their fathers waiting in their anterooms?†   (source)
  • In the anteroom, outside of the marquis's chamber, I found Mr. Urbain walking up and down.†   (source)
  • Cocles made no reply; he made a sign with his head, went into the anteroom, and seated himself.†   (source)
  • God has sent you!" exclaimed deeply moved voices as Rostov passed through the anteroom.†   (source)
  • In the anteroom, Valentine met Barrois, and looked despairingly at the old servant.†   (source)
  • As I entered the anteroom I heard Andrusha's peals of laughter and that meant that all was well.†   (source)
  • Pierre, from club habit, always left both hat and stick in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Danglars turned slightly pale; Andrea reached the anteroom beyond the little drawing-room.†   (source)
  • Natasha ran with light footsteps to the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Boris, hearing a strange voice in the anteroom, came out to meet him.†   (source)
  • Count Arakcheev's anteroom had quite a special character.†   (source)
  • "How about my son Boris, Prince?" said she, hurrying after him into the anteroom.†   (source)
  • A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • I had a great many servants, and those that were on duty lolled in the anteroom; and when I wanted one of them I had to go and call for him.†   (source)
  • If we come here without fear of being turned out (as was threatened just now) because of the imperative tone of our demand, and the unseemliness of such a visit at this late hour (though it was not late when we arrived, we were kept waiting in your anteroom), if, I say, we came in without fear, it is just because we expected to find you a man of sense; I mean, a man of honour and conscience.†   (source)
  • When it had been surmounted Hare realized that his ride so far had brought him only through an anteroom; the real portal now stood open to the Painted Desert.†   (source)
  • Blinking away the brightness of the street outside, my eyes picked him out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man.†   (source)
  • She sits in her own little office, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers and sees whether she has anything which would suit them.†   (source)
  • He thought of telephoning about leases, of cajoling men he hated, of making business calls and waiting in dirty anterooms—hat on knee, yawning at fly-specked calendars, being polite to office-boys.†   (source)
  • Sir Uwaine, at a sign from his mother, went to the anteroom and called some servants, and meanwhile madame went rippling sweetly along with her talk.†   (source)
  • There was no one in the anteroom, but Gerasim darted out of the dead man's room, rummaged with his strong hands among the fur coats to find Peter Ivanovich's and helped him on with it.†   (source)
  • The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • How was it that in the weeks since her marriage, Dorothea had not distinctly observed but felt with a stifling depression, that the large vistas and wide fresh air which she had dreamed of finding in her husband's mind were replaced by anterooms and winding passages which seemed to lead nowhither?†   (source)
  • After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back anteroom opening from the yard; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind's eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years.†   (source)
  • One day, when the Emperor had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Cure, who was waiting in the anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed.†   (source)
  • He did not soon forget the reproachful glance Amy gave him, as she went, without a word to anyone, straight into the anteroom, snatched her things, and left the place "forever," as she passionately declared to herself.†   (source)
  • In the anteroom he found his attendant Anwold, who, taking the torch from the hand of the waiting-maid, conducted him with more haste than ceremony to an exterior and ignoble part of the building, where a number of small apartments, or rather cells, served for sleeping places to the lower order of domestics, and to strangers of mean degree.†   (source)
  • The conversation went on in this way for about an hour; Arkady had time to go to his room, which turned out to be the anteroom attached to the bathroom, but was very snug and clean.†   (source)
  • On entering the small anteroom which was called a dressing-room, but which Arthur really used only to lounge and write in, he just cast his eyes on the writing-table, and saw that there were several letters and packets lying there; but he was in the uncomfortable dusty condition of a man who has had a long hurried journey, and he must really refresh himself by attending to his toilette a little, before he read his letters.†   (source)
  • Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.†   (source)
  • As she arranged her table that morning, while the little girls were in the anteroom filling the baskets, she took up her pet production, a little book, the antique cover of which her father had found among his treasures, and in which on leaves of vellum she had beautifully illuminated different texts.†   (source)
  • Meantime the prisoners found no difficulty in making their escape into the anteroom, and from thence into the court of the castle, which was now the last scene of contest.†   (source)
  • A guard, which had been stationed in the outer, or anteroom, and whose spirits were already in a state of alarm, took fright at Wamba's clamour, and, leaving the door open behind them, ran to tell the Templar that foemen had entered the old hall.†   (source)
  • Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his age permitted, from the bed-chamber, shut the door behind him, and, purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking boots in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?†   (source)
  • "What?" said he to himself, while the lamp and the wax lights were nearly burnt out, and the servants were waiting impatiently in the anteroom; "what?†   (source)
  • "Take these flowers into the anteroom or dressing-room," said the viscount; "they make the countess ill."†   (source)
  • Morrel opened the door, and closed it behind his son; then, crossing the anteroom, went to his desk on which he placed the pistols, and pointed with his finger to an open ledger.†   (source)
  • On the first story, do you see, there is the anteroom and the drawing-room; to the right of the drawing-room, a library and a study; to the left, a bedroom and a dressing-room.†   (source)
  • As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage with lanterns, standing at the entrance.†   (source)
  • The Frenchman entered, leaving in the anteroom his guide, who immediately entered into conversation with two or three of the industrious idlers who are always to be found in Rome at the doors of banking-houses, churches, museums, or theatres.†   (source)
  • At that moment they heard the sound of the door pulley and footsteps in the hall and anteroom, as if someone had arrived.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Morrel had traversed the anteroom and found the staircase, which, being carpeted, prevented his approach being heard, and he had regained that degree of confidence that the presence of M. de Villefort even would not have alarmed him.†   (source)
  • While the banker was waiting in the anteroom, the door opened, and a man dressed as an abbe and doubtless more familiar with the house than he was, came in and instead of waiting, merely bowed, passed on to the farther apartments, and disappeared.†   (source)
  • The anteroom and reception room of his house were full of officials who had been summoned or had come for orders.†   (source)
  • A tall, bald-headed old man with a red nose, wearing a dressing gown and with galoshes on his bare feet, stood in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Albert found in his anteroom two guns, with all the accoutrements for hunting; a lofty room on the ground-floor containing all the ingenious instruments the English—eminent in piscatory pursuits, since they are patient and sluggish—have invented for fishing.†   (source)
  • He stopped a moment in the anteroom, as if hesitating whether to turn to his own apartment or into Madame de Saint-Meran's; Morrel concealed himself behind a door; Valentine remained motionless, grief seeming to deprive her of all fear.†   (source)
  • In Marya Dmitrievna's anteroom the footman who helped him off with his fur coat said that the mistress asked him to come to her bedroom.†   (source)
  • But Sonya, who had gone to look for the papers in the anteroom, had found them in Pierre's hat, where he had carefully tucked them under the lining.†   (source)
  • While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh—a laugh such as one hears on the stage.†   (source)
  • This door led into a back anteroom.†   (source)
  • Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, which, in accord with the Club custom, he had given up to the hall porter.†   (source)
  • When the princess came out of the countess' room Nicholas met her again, and with marked solemnity and stiffness accompanied her to the anteroom.†   (source)
  • He told the count of his interview with Sila Andreevich (Kochubey spoke of Arakcheev by that nickname with the same vague irony Prince Andrew had noticed in the Minister of War's anteroom).†   (source)
  • Anton, a man who had looked after Prince Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom.†   (source)
  • And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the anteroom with him.†   (source)
  • The count nodded affirmatively, and Natasha, at the rapid pace at which she used to run when playing at tag, ran through the ballroom to the anteroom and downstairs into the yard.†   (source)
  • He was conducted through a glass gallery, an anteroom, and a hall, which were familiar to him, into a long low study at the door of which stood an adjutant.†   (source)
  • There was no one in the anteroom; empty bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance.†   (source)
  • From the anteroom Berg ran with smooth though impatient steps into the drawing room, where he embraced the count, kissed the hands of Natasha and Sonya, and hastened to inquire after "Mamma's" health.†   (source)
  • "Are you going to Count Cyril Vladimirovich, my dear?" said the count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: "If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us.†   (source)
  • Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh.†   (source)
  • Natasha felt offended by the hesitation she had noticed in the anteroom, by her father's nervousness, and by the unnatural manner of the princess who—she thought—was making a favor of receiving her, and so everything displeased her.†   (source)
  • Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of a servant.†   (source)
  • Then one of those conversations began which last out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses and say, "I am so delighted...Mamma's health...and Countess Apraksina..." and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put on cloaks or mantles, and drive away.†   (source)
  • "Well, the Lord have mercy on us!" said the count, half in jest, half in earnest; but Natasha noticed that her father was flurried on entering the anteroom and inquired timidly and softly whether the prince and princess were at home.†   (source)
  • The mummers (some of the house serfs) dressed up as bears, Turks, innkeepers, and ladies—frightening and funny—bringing in with them the cold from outside and a feeling of gaiety, crowded, at first timidly, into the anteroom, then hiding behind one another they pushed into the ballroom where, shyly at first and then more and more merrily and heartily, they started singing, dancing, and playing Christmas games.†   (source)
  • Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask table linen, he would call Dmitri Vasilevich, a man of good family and the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the enormous table would say: "Well, Dmitri, you'll see that things are all as they should be?†   (source)
  • "Uncle" led the visitors through the anteroom into a small hall with a folding table and red chairs, then into the drawing room with a round birchwood table and a sofa, and finally into his private room where there was a tattered sofa, a worn carpet, and portraits of Suvorov, of the host's father and mother, and of himself in military uniform.†   (source)
  • During his service, chiefly as an adjutant, Prince Andrew had seen the anterooms of many important men, and the different types of such rooms were well known to him.†   (source)
  • An anteroom in the DUKE'S palace.†   (source)
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