While Christopher patiently waited in the antechambers of the Catholic monarchs of Spain, Bartolomeo, map in hand, explained to Henry VII.
He gave the tone to his century, finding readers in the antechambers as well as in the drawing-room.
As their offices were in the gift of the king, and as no discipline was enforced upon them, they were chiefly to be found in the antechambers of Versailles and in the drawing-rooms of Paris.
The antechambers of bankers and men in place are crowded with anxious clients.
It seems to me that you were in the ministerial antechambers every morning!
I know more about these things now, and will never publish a book at my own risk again, or at any rate I will send somebody else round the antechambers with it for a good while before I pay for publishing it.
I do not think that antechambers filled with gold-embroidered liveries would make those who come to see me happier, and I esteem myself happy in being able to do you the honors of my house alone.
These antechambers are all of early thirteenth-century date, with a good deal of excellent work remaining about the windows.
Nambu was right; Chicot had traversed the antechambers silently, but still he was not able to keep his spurs from sounding, which made several people turn, and bow when they saw who it was.
There came very plainly, through theantechambers I had just run through, the tramp of feet.
The gallery and the antechambers had some fine furniture in them, pushed against the walls that the crowd might circulate; but all was not near so fine as the Duchess of Portsmouth's apartments, nor even as the King's.
But I was past him before he could change his mind again, and through a compile of antechambers in one of which a page started up to know my business, but I was past him as if he were no more than a shadow.
Returning to France, he bitterly complained of this injustice, and, after much cringing in the antechambers of Ministers, he obtained at last the Cross of St. Louis as a kind of indemnity.
Mortier well knew his man, and that his cringing in antechamberswould be better rewarded than his services in the field.
The antechambers were crowded all night with lords and privy councillors.
But it was with emotions far deeper that the Ambassador saw on the terraces and in the antechambers of Versailles men who had been deeply implicated in plots against the life of his master.
The politician and the counsellor are frequently applauded or censured for transactions which the intrigues ofantechambers conceived, and which cupidity and favour gave power to promulgate.
Her antechambers are always full of priests; and her closet and bedroom are crowded with relics, which she collected during her journey to Italy last year.
From a man in the ranks of the guards he was promoted to a general-in-chief, and from a harp player in antechambers to a president of the councils of a Prince; and that within the short period of six years.
Court C differs from court B in the absence of antechambers to the lîwân groups (Plate 33, Figs.
The king is my master; he wills that I should make verses, he wills that I should polish the mosaics of his antechambers with satin shoes.
But, as we have said, in the first antechambers he had stopped, solely for the sake of not mixing himself with all those happy existences which he felt were moving around him in the adjacent salons.
The antechambers of the Palais Royal are naturally very dark, and, in the evening, they were but indifferently lighted.
The whole atmosphere of the court seemed to indicate an approaching storm; the courtiers and the ladies of the court avoided meeting in the antechambers and the corridors, in order not to converse on compromising subjects.
The highspirited and quickwitted nobles who daily crowded the antechambers could not help sneering while they bowed low to the royal visitor, whose poltroonery and stupidity had a second time made him an exile and a mendicant.
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