In some houses certain apartments were reserved for the occupation of a retired superior.
The abbess or prioress of a house had separate apartments and it was always a temptation to dine or to sleep alone, instead of keeping the frater and the dorter.
I have got some extremely good apartments in the house of a 'Merchant of Venice,' who is a good deal occupied with business, and has a wife in her twenty-second year.
Wisely the sleeping apartments face the Grand Canal, with a garden intervening; were they on the Piazza side sleep would be very difficult.
I found some very spacious and imposing apartments there, all of which they told me would remain uninhabited.
On his return to his apartments he was seized by one of those paroxysms of activity which reveal to us the presence of new principles in our existence.
The brief arrangements of the dragoons had prepared two apartments for the reception of the ladies, the one being intended as a sleeping room, and situated within the other.
Caesar moved through the apartments with a face charged with an importance exceeding even that which had accompanied him in his melancholy task of the morning.
The dragoons, who had been charged with this duty, had conveyed a few necessary articles of furniture, and Miss Peyton and her companions, on alighting, found something like habitable apartments prepared for their reception.
In these the apartments are, for the most part, extremely narrow, and dark.
The superior ranks are not less intent upon the same objects; though many of their state apartments do not indicate, that either the one or the other were of the smallest consideration.
The public, with the exception of the lowest class, were admitted into the gallery and largerapartments of Versailles, as they were into the park.
The extreme plainness of the retreat in question not answering the ideas they had formed, some of them insisted upon seeing the very smallest closets, saying that the richly furnished apartments were concealed from them.
The King's aunts, who were on very intimate terms with the ambassador, adopted his opinion, and the conduct of the King and Queen was equally and loudly censured in the apartments of Versailles and in the hotels and coffee-houses of Paris.
The magnificent state-apartments of the empress were silent and empty, for she had given out that she needed solitude to work, she would hold no levee to-day.
Both lay far from theapartments of the empress-abbess.
Yes, your majesty, I watched him, and I was informed this morning that he had left the emperor's apartments with a sealed note in his hands, and had gone into the city.
Her private apartments were ever after hung with gray, and her coaches and liveries were of the same sad hue.
He had even asked for admission to the apartments of the lying-in women, and upon being refused entrance by the sisters, he had said, "Do let me see the first scene of human misery.
Estrella, go to the apartments of the duke, and say that I desire an interview with his royal highness.
The servant obeyed, and conducted the banker through a suite of apartments whose splendor he contemplated with a sneer.
Let me accompany you to your apartments that you may take possession at once, and refresh yourself from the fatigues of travelling.
They passed through the magnificent state apartments designed for the occultation of the pope; but not until they had reached his private sitting-room, did the emperor invite him to rest after his fatiguing walk.
Your apartments are as retired as you could possibly desire them.
A brilliant crowd thronged theapartments of the Princess d'Artois.
Prince Kaunitz had finished his promenade in the powder-room, and having ascertained by means of his mirror that his peruke was in order, he betook himself to the apartments of the Countess Clary, to conduct her to table.
My eyes turned toward that window in the west wing which I knew to belong to the apartments of the Countess.
She does not keep to her apartments exactly," replied the man, a little annoyed.
Ninon called unexpectedly at Christina's Paris apartments one morning to talk over the plan.
I do insist upon having lights extinguished in the child's apartments by twelve o'clock at midnight.
A door at this end led to the sleeping apartments of the West wing of the palace.
The squire hastily bade Sewis see that the passages to the sleeping apartments were barred, and flung the great chain loose.
They are bringing the prisoners into the guardroom," cried Britton, bursting into the royal apartments with small ceremony in his excitement.
Alphonso was lying on a couch in one of the smaller state apartments of Windsor Castle, and the window, close to which he had bidden his attendants wheel him, overlooked the beautiful valley of the Thames.
Salla entered at the same time the best suite of apartments in the hotel; upon which each of them exclaimed: "These rooms will do for me.
There is a charming set of apartments on the floor above, but they are specially retained for the Countess Spencer, and it would be more than my business is worth to let anyone else take possession of them.
They will do for one of these ladies; but whichever accepts them the other must be provided with a set of apartments at least as good.
I come here, and find you in apartments furnished and decorated (as you informed us) by yourself, and on a scale which would be prodigal in a millionaire.
I should have imagined," retorted the Professor, "that any outlay on apartments which I presume you do not contemplate occupying for an extended period must be money thrown away.
Who do you suppose is goin' to take apartments furnished in this 'ere ridic'loush style?
This exceeding dirtiness, in which the Italians surpass almost all other nations, prevails also in most of the apartments and kitchens.
Arrived at the door of the apartments where the company were assembled, I announced my name to the footman in waiting, and as he hesitated to open the door I evinced an intention of opening it myself.
The passages from these apartments lead to the "Logge" of Raphael, by which is understood the arched galleries outside the buildings.
In order to be enabled to make a comparison between the style of decorating palaces in former time with the modern method, we visited the apartments in the government building fitted up by order of the former Viceroy.
One of these apartments he finished entirely himself; in the others only some of the figures are of his execution; the rest were painted by his pupils and friends after his drawings and under his eye.
Nothing more was to be said against this and thus we found ourselves in possession of apartmentsfitted up in a style so handsome and yet tasteful, as for certain no other artist-family in the City could shew.
Meanwhile I had been so fortunate as to find convenient apartments in the immediate neighbourhood of the Theatre "an der Wien" on the first floor of the house of a cabinet maker.
Our apartmentshad a look-out upon the Tiber from a wooden balcony; from here we could follow the course of the Tiber from the Porta Romana to the bridge in front of the castle of St. Angelo.
On the first day I looked for a long time and with attention at the works of art which are in the gallery proper, before the apartmentswere opened in which the most choice are situated.
To me even apartments were offered in a private house, which I was however obliged to decline, as it would separate me from my companions.
The prince himself led us to theapartments assigned to us.
St. James's Palace, arrangements for theapartments in, i.
Duncannon, Lord, and the apartments in St. James's Palace, i.
The whole suite of apartments occupied by the City Assemblies were thrown open on this occasion.
In 1764 the Glass House was kept by Edward Agar, who, in addition to serving dinners, could furnish apartments to ladies or gentlemen who wished to reside in the country for the benefit of their health.
The dining room and some of the apartments seem to have been fitted up regardless of expense.
Moreover, I have very fine apartments in Hades," he added, "and I should hate to give them up.
They gained admittance to the apartments by the small door closely adjoining the supping-room.
The Apartmentsof Mary Queen of Scots in Holyrood Palace 40 7.
At one place, as an excuse for not taking the unsavoury suite ofapartments which were offered to me, I ventured quietly to remark, that they were very much dearer than those I had just left.
The Nana then gave way, and permitted his relatives to carry off their protégée to the apartments appropriated to the females in the palace at Bithoor, where they placed her under the charge of an experienced Mahomedan nurse.
In the apartments open to the inspection of English visitors there was nothing which could shock either modesty or humanity, though a Sahib of fastidious taste might take exception to the arrangement of the furniture and the decorations.
If a subaltern's wife required change of air, the Rajah's carriage was at the service of the young couple, and the European apartments at Bithoor were put in order to receive them.
From the windows of these apartments one looks across the panorama of Cairo, with its mosques, its minarets and the misty background of the desert.
Embroidered coverlets, hangings and upholstery give to some of the apartments an aspect of comfort and even of elegance.
The state apartmentsare chiefly distinguished for the decorative paintings of the well-known artist A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apartments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
