Anteroom Sentence Examples

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  • Count Arakcheev's anteroom had quite a special character.

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  • Boris, hearing a strange voice in the anteroom, came out to meet him.

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  • 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.

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  • This door led into a back anteroom.

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  • A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom.

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  • He started to say something to the fleeing attendant but instead lifted the limp body up in his arms to a more reasonable position and carefully carried her out to the anteroom.

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  • While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh--a laugh such as one hears on the stage.

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  • There is a small anteroom off the Main Hall which can be used for drinks receptions on arrival.

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  • Pierre, from club habit, always left both hat and stick in the anteroom.

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  • God has sent you! exclaimed deeply moved voices as Rostov passed through the anteroom.

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  • When the princess came out of the countess' room Nicholas met her again, and with marked solemnity and stiffness accompanied her to the anteroom.

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  • Natasha ran with light footsteps to the anteroom.

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  • As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage with lanterns, standing at the entrance.

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  • At that moment they heard the sound of the door pulley and footsteps in the hall and anteroom, as if someone had arrived.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • As I entered the anteroom I heard Andrusha's peals of laughter and that meant that all was well.

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  • It was said that Johnson was kept waiting in the anteroom when he called while Cibber was admitted.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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