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  • The front door opens to an antechamber.†   (source)
  • Nancy turned to the right, into an antechamber, and found her space suit hanging on a rack.†   (source)
  • I waded upstream to the barred stone door between me and the antechamber to the maze where the water came in through the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Once, when he had just lulled her to sleep but she had gone no farther than dream's antechamber and was therefore still responsive to him, he said to her, Good-bye, I'm going now.†   (source)
  • He hurried along the hallway, through one of two swinging doors, and into a roomy antechamber used as a salad-prep area.†   (source)
  • The stone antechamber was not large.†   (source)
  • The Consul paused in a large antechamber.†   (source)
  • They were merely sitting in an antechamber; there was a narrow staircase opposite the door that led down to some other rooms and perhaps to the actual coffin of whatever great person had been buried here.†   (source)
  • When she pushed it open she faced yet another small antechamber with four doors.†   (source)
  • On the floor just underneath the landing which served as the antechamber to Hoss's attic was the small room occupied by Emmi, age eleven, middle member of the Commandant's five offspring.†   (source)
  • The room I knocked at turned out to be a dark little antechamber, with a small man sitting before an old-fashioned standard typewriter with a wide carriage.†   (source)
  • We found a way into this antechamber weeks ago.†   (source)
  • Once her eyes were covered, she would be in death's antechamber, from which there was no return.†   (source)
  • In the antechamber the woman in white called me by name.†   (source)
  • The other shoe had been dropped by the receding water in a corner of the antechamber.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell him about the antechamber that I recognized in my dreams.†   (source)
  • The two guards who had gone to the Baron's quarters for the slave boy's body staggered past the antechamber door with their load sagging between them, arms trailing.†   (source)
  • There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked s TACKS and the other TOMES.†   (source)
  • After the nurse clicks away I go into the antechamber, which is small and just as bright as the hallway.†   (source)
  • The Baron advanced another step into the antechamber, noting how the men moved back, clearing a subtle space around Nefud, dissociating themselves from the object of wrath.†   (source)
  • Around the grove stood a protective wall of trees even more formidable than the ones in the antechamber.†   (source)
  • It was then that I first heard the babble of voices—loud, rough voices—coming from the antechamber.†   (source)
  • Noise poured out into the antechamber.†   (source)
  • I lifted the locking bar on the door and opened it, then edged my way along the wall of the antechamber and down the stairs.†   (source)
  • In the antechamber the water was waist deep, and the waves made by the water thundering down in a solid pillar from the hole in the ceiling were as high as my chest.†   (source)
  • At the infamous Gestapo headquarters—that terrible Warsaw simulacrum of Satan's antechamber—the ham lay unwrapped and pinkly glistening on the desk between herself, handcuffed, and a hyperactive, monocled zealot who almost exactly resembled Otto Kruger and who demanded to know where she had obtained this contraband.†   (source)
  • The consulting-room was filled with their sly laughter while scrofulous mountaineers glared dully at the pages of Life in the antechamber.†   (source)
  • Sir Melia-grance, anxious to get the whole affair safely ended as soon as possible, fussed in the antechamber, wishing she were gone.†   (source)
  • He vaguely recollected surprise at finding the interior spacious, well warmed, and quite clean; but there was no time to do more than notice these qualities, for the Chinese had left his hooded chair and was already leading the way through various antechambers.†   (source)
  • He had jumped to the conclusion that the blood had come from a wounded knight—otherwise why should she have insisted on having them in the antechamber?†   (source)
  • Her father's step sounded again in the antechamber, and Madame Merle got up, releasing the child.†   (source)
  • I opened my antechambers and they crowded in.†   (source)
  • In royal antechambers it is worth more to be viewed with an angry eye than not to be seen at all.†   (source)
  • They carried him through an alley, up a flight of stairs, and deposited him in an antechamber.†   (source)
  • Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the floor of the antechamber.†   (source)
  • He came to this melancholy conclusion as he entered the antechamber.†   (source)
  • The dining-room was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms.†   (source)
  • The bed was the only one in the apartment, which consisted of an antechamber and a bedroom.†   (source)
  • The liveries in the antechamber were antiquated.†   (source)
  • In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes by Haydn.†   (source)
  • On the landing d'Artagnan blushed; in the antechamber he trembled.†   (source)
  • And with Mason and his staff—Burton Burleigh, Earl Newcomb, Ziflah Saunders, and a young Bridgeburg law graduate by the name of Manigault—helping to arrange the order of evidence as well as direct or instruct the various witnesses and venire-men who were already collecting in the antechamber of the now almost nationally known attorney for the people.†   (source)
  • His fear rose higher and higher; and trembling he softly opened the door to the antechamber, resolved to fly and seek the prince, and, through him, protection and release.†   (source)
  • In our day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its antechamber.†   (source)
  • But its roomy staircases, passages, and antechambers still remain; and even its painted ceilings, where Allegory, in Roman helmet and celestial linen, sprawls among balustrades and pillars, flowers, clouds, and big-legged boys, and makes the head ache—as would seem to be Allegory's object always, more or less.†   (source)
  • As confidence was out of the question with The Avenger in the hall, which could merely be regarded in the light of an antechamber to the keyhole, I sent him to the Play.†   (source)
  • He drew back from her with somewhat of the look which may be imagined upon the face of a man who, thinking to play with a kitten, has run upon a tiger; and she proceeded: "You are acquainted in the antechamber, and know the Lord Sejanus.†   (source)
  • Emmanuel followed her, and in the antechamber were visible the rough faces of seven or eight half-naked sailors.†   (source)
  • He was always in her antechamber.†   (source)
  • In the meanwhile, Gurth had descended the stair, and, having reached the dark antechamber or hall, was puzzling about to discover the entrance, when a figure in white, shown by a small silver lamp which she held in her hand, beckoned him into a side apartment.†   (source)
  • But High Marshal of England! that," he said, extending his arm, as if to grasp the baton of office, and assuming a loftier stride along the antechamber, "that is indeed a prize worth playing for!"†   (source)
  • "Silence, sirrah!" said Jos, with a resolute countenance still, and thrust his arm into the sleeve with indomitable resolution, in the performance of which heroic act he was found by Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, who at this juncture came up to visit Amelia, and entered without ringing at the antechamber door.†   (source)
  • An old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose quietly and said in a whisper: "Please walk in."†   (source)
  • Penelon rolled his quid in his cheek, placed his hand before his mouth, turned his head, and sent a long jet of tobacco-juice into the antechamber, advanced his foot, balanced himself, and began,—"You see, M. Morrel," said he, "we were somewhere between Cape Blanc and Cape Boyador, sailing with a fair breeze, south-south-west after a week's calm, when Captain Gaumard comes up to me—I was at the helm I should tell you—and says, 'Penelon, what do you think of those clouds coming up over…†   (source)
  • The door opened into a vaulted ante-chamber, as high as a chapel and paved with red tiles; and into this antechamber a lady had just been admitted by a servant, a lad in shabby livery, who was now ushering her toward the apartment in which our friends were grouped.†   (source)
  • Old Tikhon, wearing a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door.†   (source)
  • In a small antechamber, into which several doors opened, and which was lighted by a small iron lamp, they met a second interruption from the waiting-maid of Rowena, who, saying in a tone of authority, that her mistress desired to speak with the Palmer, took the torch from the hand of Anwold, and, bidding him await her return, made a sign to the Palmer to follow.†   (source)
  • As you behold at her Majesty's drawing-room, the ambassadors' and high dignitaries' carriages whisk off from a private door, while Captain Jones's ladies are waiting for their fly: as you see in the Secretary of the Treasury's antechamber, a half-dozen of petitioners waiting patiently for their audience, and called out one by one, when suddenly an Irish member or some eminent personage enters the apartment, and instantly walks into Mr. Under-Secretary over the heads of all the people…†   (source)
  • On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a silent prayer.†   (source)
  • Although he was in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high official appointed to the province in which the prince's estate lay considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince appeared punctually to the appointed hour.†   (source)
  • Everyone sitting in this antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, youthfully glittering eyes.†   (source)
  • Every evening, either in the antechamber, the corridor, or on the stairs, he met the pretty SOUBRETTE.†   (source)
  • It was the antechamber of the galleys.†   (source)
  • He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step.†   (source)
  • In the antechamber, upon long circular benches, reposed the elect; that is to say, those who were called.†   (source)
  • "Show him in," said Milady, in a quick tone, but so piercing that d'Artagnan heard her in the antechamber.†   (source)
  • Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible.†   (source)
  • He then went out backward, and when he was in the antechamber the cardinal heard him, in his enthusiasm, crying aloud, "Long life to the Monseigneur!†   (source)
  • Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained the antechamber unperceived.†   (source)
  • The officer took Bonacieux by the arm, and led him into the antechamber, where he found his two guards.†   (source)
  • On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door.†   (source)
  • Planchet slept in the antechamber upon a coverlet taken from the bed of d'Artagnan, and which d'Artagnan from that time made shift to do without.†   (source)
  • That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having a case to look over, Basque handed him a letter saying: "The person who wrote the letter is in the antechamber."†   (source)
  • Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air the most ordinary in the world.†   (source)
  • But if his morals were shocked on the landing, his respect for the cardinal was scandalized in the antechamber.†   (source)
  • Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean felt Javert touch him on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • This time Kitty was nowhere waiting for him; neither in the antechamber, nor in the corridor, nor beneath the great door.†   (source)
  • The elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Prefete,"—all this had created a whirlwind in her imagination.†   (source)
  • At the cry uttered by the duke and the scream of Patrick, the man whom Felton had met in the antechamber rushed into the chamber.†   (source)
  • The cabinet of M. de Treville, generally held so sacred, became in an instant the annex of the antechamber.†   (source)
  • The garret, the cellar, the lowly ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule.†   (source)
  • On the landing they were no longer fighting, but amused themselves with stories about women, and in the antechamber, with stories about the court.†   (source)
  • It was evident that the servants who waited in the antechamber were warned, for as soon as d'Artagnan appeared, before even he had asked if Milady were visible, one of them ran to announce him.†   (source)
  • They reached the office of the procurator after having passed through the antechamber in which the clerks were, and the study in which they ought to have been.†   (source)
  • At this moment the four Guards appeared at the door of the antechamber, but seeing four Musketeers standing, and their swords by their sides, they hesitated about going farther.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de Treville, captain of the king's Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.†   (source)
  • Then only d'Artagnan remembered the languishing glances of Kitty, her constantly meeting him in the antechamber, the corridor, or on the stairs, those touches of the hand every time she met him, and her deep sighs; but absorbed by his desire to please the great lady, he had disdained the soubrette.†   (source)
  • Ten curious heads were glued to the tapestry and became pale with fury; for their ears, closely applied to the door, did not lose a syllable of what he said, while their mouths repeated as he went on, the insulting expressions of the captain to all the people in the antechamber.†   (source)
  • He believed himself transported into that famous country of giants into which Gulliver afterward went and was so frightened; and yet he had not gained the goal, for there were still the landing place and the antechamber.†   (source)
  • Toward six o'clock M. de Treville announced that it was time to go to the Louvre; but as the hour of audience granted by his Majesty was past, instead of claiming the ENTREE by the back stairs, he placed himself with the four young men in the antechamber.†   (source)
  • On arriving at the king's private antechamber, M. de Treville found La Chesnaye, who informed him that they had not been able to find M. de la Tremouille on the preceding evening at his hotel, that he returned too late to present himself at the Louvre, that he had only that moment arrived and that he was at that very hour with the king.†   (source)
  • …to the very ground; and he smiled on receiving d'Artagnan's response, the Bearnese accent of which recalled to him at the same time his youth and his country—a double remembrance which makes a man smile at all ages; but stepping toward the antechamber and making a sign to d'Artagnan with his hand, as if to ask his permission to finish with others before he began with him, he called three times, with a louder voice at each time, so that he ran through the intervening tones between the…†   (source)
  • In this apartment a continued buzzing prevailed from morning till night, while M. de Treville, in his office contiguous to this antechamber, received visits, listened to complaints, gave his orders, and like the king in his balcony at the Louvre, had only to place himself at the window to review both his men and arms.†   (source)
  • Porthos consoled himself by filling the antechamber of M. de Treville and the guardroom of the Louvre with the accounts of his love scrapes, after having passed from professional ladies to military ladies, from the lawyer's dame to the baroness, there was question of nothing less with Porthos than a foreign princess, who was enormously fond of him.†   (source)
  • 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE M. de Troisville, as his family was still called in Gascony, or M. de Treville, as he has ended by styling himself in Paris, had really commenced life as d'Artagnan now did; that is to say, without a sou in his pocket, but with a fund of audacity, shrewdness, and intelligence which makes the poorest Gascon gentleman often derive more in his hope from the paternal inheritance than the richest Perigordian or Berrichan gentleman derives in reality from…†   (source)
  • When the two Musketeers had entered; when the door was closed behind them; when the buzzing murmur of the antechamber, to which the summons which had been made had doubtless furnished fresh food, had recommenced; when M. de Treville had three or four times paced in silence, and with a frowning brow, the whole length of his cabinet, passing each time before Porthos and Aramis, who were as upright and silent as if on parade—he stopped all at once full in front of them, and covering them…†   (source)
  • At this announcement, during which the door remained open, everyone became mute, and amid the general silence the young man crossed part of the length of the antechamber, and entered the apartment of the captain of the Musketeers, congratulating himself with all his heart at having so narrowly escaped the end of this strange quarrel.†   (source)
  • 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS D'Artagnan, in a state of fury, crossed the antechamber at three bounds, and was darting toward the stairs, which he reckoned upon descending four at a time, when, in his heedless course, he ran head foremost against a Musketeer who was coming out of one of M. de Treville's private rooms, and striking his shoulder violently, made him utter a cry, or rather a howl.†   (source)
  • They set forward; and, with a grandeur of air, a dignified step, which caught the eye, but could not shake the doubts of the well-read Catherine, he led the way across the hall, through the common drawing-room and one useless antechamber, into a room magnificent both in size and furniture—the real drawing-room, used only with company of consequence.†   (source)
  • Going myself one morning to pay my respects, I found in his antechamber one Innis, a messenger of Philadelphia, who had come from thence express with a paquet from Governor Denny for the General.†   (source)
  • The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber.†   (source)
  • Enter that antechamber of birth where the studious are assembled and note their faces.†   (source)
  • Soon afterwards Luscinda came out from an antechamber, attended by her mother and two of her damsels, arrayed and adorned as became her rank and beauty, and in full festival and ceremonial attire.†   (source)
  • The Tyrian peers and officers of state For the slow queen in antechambers wait; Her lofty courser, in the court below, Who his majestic rider seems to know, Proud of his purple trappings, paws the ground, And champs the golden bit, and spreads the foam around.†   (source)
  • An Antechamber in LEONTES' Palace.†   (source)
  • …lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to…†   (source)
  • The antechamber, indeed, was only encrusted with rubies and emeralds, but the order in which everything was arranged made amends for this great simplicity.†   (source)
  • He threw over him his scarlet mantle, put on his head a montera of green velvet trimmed with silver edging, flung across his shoulder the baldric with his good trenchant sword, took up a large rosary that he always carried with him, and with great solemnity and precision of gait proceeded to the antechamber where the duke and duchess were already dressed and waiting for him.†   (source)
  • " "These squires," returned Dona Rodriguez, "are always our enemies; and as they are the haunting spirits of the antechambers and watch us at every step, whenever they are not saying their prayers (and that's often enough) they spend their time in tattling about us, digging up our bones and burying our good name.†   (source)
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