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Example sentences for "antechamber"

Lexicographically close words:
antebellum; antecedence; antecedent; antecedently; antecedents; antechambers; antechapel; antedate; antedated; antedates
  1. As the chancellor passed into the antechamber Count Zellerndorf rose and greeted him warmly, almost effusively.

  2. In an antechamber just outside the room a man sat near the door that led into the apartment where the king and his chancellor quarreled.

  3. No sooner had I appeared in the antechamber than I was ushered into the presence of the secretary.

  4. It was not without some difficulty that he found his way through the maze of rooms and corridors to the antechamber where he had deposited his hat and coat.

  5. One of the numerous laquais who were standing about in the antechamber when I arrived preceded me into a salon where I found the Marquise Villamarina (first lady-in-waiting of the Princess).

  6. Old officers complained that he kept them long in his antechamber while he was amusing himself with his spaniels and his flatterers.

  7. His presence chamber and his antechamber were in outward show as splendid as when he was at Whitehall.

  8. In the antechamber he found a crowd of people staring at Young, while Young sate, enduring the stare with the serene fortitude of a man who had looked down on far greater multitudes from half the pillories in England.

  9. Sometimes he waited in the antechamber at Saint Germains, where the priests scowled at him as a Calvinist, and where even the Protestant Jacobites cautioned one another in whispers against the old Republican.

  10. Andrea was in her room, giving a final touch to her rebellious curls when she heard the step of her father, who appeared as she crossed the sill of the antechamber with a book under her arm.

  11. But we all pressed forward in contemporaneous state, and so entered the antechamber of the hall.

  12. In going out he put the key in his pocket, and told the guards in his antechamber to pay no attention if they should hear any noise in his closet.

  13. He went into the antechamber of the reactor and glared at the door in the firewall.

  14. He opened up the conduit boxes that led through the antechamber from the control console to the reactor beyond the firewall.

  15. And she put armed men in ambush, and kept them on guard all day, ready, when Ludovico should come for his money, to fall on him in a certain antechamber and hack him to pieces.

  16. The room was an antechamber to the princess's boudoir, for on one side there was no door, but an ample curtain of gorgeous tapestry.

  17. In the antechamber I found a crowd assembled, and on every face was pallid consternation written.

  18. She was white as death at the horrid noise and all the things of which it may have reminded her, and so we passed from the antechamber and sought the more distant places of the castle.

  19. XXIV In an antechamber in the palace of Sforza of Gilderoy stood the Lady Duessa, watching the day die in the west over a black chaos of spires and gables.

  20. As night to the sunset, so seemed this antechamber to the garden, panelled with black oak, a dark square of gloom red-windowed to the west.

  21. Through the open doors that led to the antechamber Slade reappeared, hesitated a moment as if to reenter the studio, then bowed and went out.

  22. The office-boy in the antechamber took their cards with the condescension which only an office-boy between the ages of twelve and sixteen can feel, and disappeared within.

  23. At the second flight of worm-eaten stairs, Gunther pushed open a smoky glass door and entered a short antechamber inclosed in sanded glass with sliding pigeon-holes for observation.

  24. A) lead to a little antechamber and two halls (B) supported on pillars.

  25. In the king's antechamber sat Deesen taking his breakfast.

  26. The door of the antechamber was at this moment opened violently, and the queen's chamberlain appeared upon its threshold.

  27. In the antechamber are the four officers who came with me; by opening the door, they will be at my side.

  28. Loud voices in the antechamber interrupted her; she listened in breathless expectation.

  29. The Saxon nobility are continually in the antechamber of this heretical king; and yesterday several of the city authorities, accompanied by the foreign ambassadors, waited upon him, and he received them.

  30. Bois quickly ascended to the fifth story, and, being admitted into the antechamber by a neat-looking domestic, knocked at the door of the apartment which was indicated to him.

  31. She ran to the antechamber and looked for a little trunk which had come to the château with Madeleine: it was no longer there!

  32. The principal entrance of his dwelling, preceded by a vestibule, led to an antechamber and other rooms.

  33. There is a man in the antechamber who desires to speak with you.

  34. The antechamber of the administration is henceforth a chamber, the court is a boudoir, the best way to get in is through the cellar, and the bed is more than ever a cross-cut.

  35. The doors of the oeil-de-boeuf were closed, and the antechamber which precedes that room was filled with grenadiers who wanted to get in to massacre the Guards.

  36. At dessert she heard, not without emotions of delight, certain sounds in the antechamber and salon which denoted the arrival of her usual guests.

  37. Mademoiselle Cormon, sitting down on the bench in the long antechamber like a person overcome with fatigue.

  38. Every evening, at six o'clock, the long antechamber received its furniture.

  39. Between eight and nine o'clock the servants began to arrive in the antechamber to accompany their masters home; and, short of a revolution, no one remained in the salon at ten o'clock.

  40. He sat in the antechamber during the evening, where he slept like a dormouse.

  41. In the bedchamber beyond the antechamber she found the children, both sitting up in one bed, clasped in each other's arms, and crying quietly.

  42. It was in the latter's antechamber that the scene described by Plutarch occurred.

  43. It was only in the antechamber of Sulla that his uncle learned to know him.

  44. The lords who waited in the antechamber while Penn was closeted with James did not look pleasantly at him when he came out.

  45. Tracing the matter back to the moment of our meeting in the antechamber at St. Jean d'Angely, I remembered the jest which Mathurine had uttered at our joint expense.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antechamber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    greenroom; lounge; vestibule