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Example sentences for "chambers"

Lexicographically close words:
chamberlain; chamberlains; chamberleine; chambermaid; chambermaids; chambray; chambre; chambres; chamel; chameleon
  1. He spent most of his time in his chambers in literary composition, or in the galleries of the House of Commons listening to the debates.

  2. Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture had better be left to people without thoughts.

  3. Pope's works with a memoir (1853), and along with Robert Chambers (q.

  4. But at his voice old dreams awoke In dusty chambers of the mind, And when again he softly spoke With sudden tears mine eyes were wet.

  5. Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's services without wages, and giveth him not for his work.

  6. For her there were no disputes to consider, for the troubled state of Cyprus, but too well known in the Council Chambers of the Republic, had never been revealed to her.

  7. Then follows an exudation of a serous fluid at one or more points in the papule, the meshes of the reticulum being so stretched and torn that small chambers are formed filled with the liquid exudate containing granules.

  8. Between these chambers the separating strata of epithelia are compressed so as to form septa or partition walls.

  9. That's sealed, and so are all the other handsome chambers on this story.

  10. The servant who attends to the chambers has left the house, and I've done nothing but go up and down stairs all day.

  11. In one of the chambers of this dwelling sat Fergan and Joan the Hunchback.

  12. Already, despite Joan's tears, the Crusaders were seizing her, when a great uproar broke out in one of the chambers that opened into the gallery.

  13. At Jebel Khaui (Cape Kamart) there is a great necropolis, the sepulchral chambers of which were long ago rifled by Arabs and Vandals.

  14. Then he was conscious of remembering, with peculiar and unnecessary distinctness, that, from the Gau-Mukh, a passage led to the subterranean chambers in which the fair Pudmini and her handmaids had slain themselves.

  15. The spittoons were on the staircases, in each bedroom--yea, and in chambers even more sacred than these.

  16. Men say that there are subterranean chambers leading into the heart of the hills, and passages communicating with the extreme limits of Taragarh, the giant fortress that crowns the hill and flanks the whole of the valley on the Palace side.

  17. Great pit-holes indicate the position of chambers and inclosing-walls.

  18. This is an immense ruin with small portions of the walls still standing, particularly of the round tower of stone of three concentric walls, incorporated in the structure, and a few chambers in the north end of the main building.

  19. Numerous pit-holes in each structure indicate the chambers and the line of the inclosing walls.

  20. One evening I had dined at the Carlton with Lola, her father and Madame, and the two ladies having gone off to the theater, he took me round to the set of luxurious chambers he occupied in Half Moon Street.

  21. There seemed to have been a little flaw in our plans, Hargreave," said the alert, good-looking man as I sat with him in his cosy chambers in Half Moon Street that morning.

  22. On the following evening about six o'clock I was alone in Rayne's chambers when the evening newspaper was, as usual, pushed through the letter-box.

  23. In several chambers there are small daïses, and in one the remains of a throne, built of brick and mud covered with plaster and stucco, upon which the Pharaoh Amenhetep sat.

  24. The central chambers and passages leading to them were discovered; and in both cases the passages are peculiarly complex, with dumb chambers, great stone portcullises, etc.

  25. Its storehouses he filled with spices so that they were like the Tigris when its waters are in flood, and in its treasure-chambers he piled up precious stones, and silver, and lead in abundance.

  26. The actual tomb-chambers are excavated in the rock, twenty feet below the ground-level and sixty feet below the top of the mastaba.

  27. Towards the end of the Ist Dynasty, and during the lid, the royal tombs became much more complicated, being surrounded with numerous chambers for the dead slaves, etc.

  28. But first he described the plan on which the temple was to be built, naming its various shrines and chambers and describing the manner in which they were to be fashioned and adorned.

  29. This is one of the royal tomb-chambers of the Ist Dynasty.

  30. Within its dark chambers were the mysterious figures of the gods, and what little light could enter would have been reflected in the tanks of sacred water sunk to the level of the pavement.

  31. The royal ghosts would naturally visit their commemorative chambers at Abydos, in order to be in the company of the great Osiris, and ghostly servants would be as necessary to their Majesties at Abydos as elsewhere.

  32. The general complaint was that immodest dress was not confined to balls and chambers of entertainment, but that women brazenly appeared in similar costume at church, braving all criticism to satisfy their morbid desire for observation.

  33. He had, however, from the beginning no intention of allowing the Chambers to encroach upon the prerogatives of the Crown.

  34. Why should they go to war in order to subject Prussia not to the Princes but to the Chambers of the smaller States?

  35. I am astonished at the political incapacity of our Chambers and yet we are an educated country.

  36. He wanted a man who would defend the Government before the Chambers with courage and ability; Bismarck, who had gained his reputation as a debater, was the only man for the post.

  37. If our Chambers do not succeed in binding the public interest to themselves and drawing the attention of the country, they will sooner or later go to their grave without sympathy.

  38. At a few yards distant from the chambers full of offerings is a line of private graves almost surrounding the royal tomb.

  39. But as they were intended to be for ever closed, and as the chambers in two corners were shut off by brickwork all round, it seems likely that all the side chambers were equally closed.

  40. The side chambers open off this stairway by side passages a little above the level of the stairs.

  41. It is quite practicable to roof over these great chambers up to spans of twenty feet.

  42. The pottery placed in the chambers is all figured in position on the plan.

  43. All the underground passages and secret chambers under the pyramid were examined, and the inscriptions discovered of King Ahmenemhâît III.

  44. It is curiously turned askew, as if to avoid some obstacle, but the chambers of the tomb of Den do not come near its direction.

  45. Chambers for offerings are built on each side of the entrance passage, and this passage is turned to the north, as in the mastabas of the third dynasty and in the pyramids.

  46. The surrounding small chambers are only three to four feet deep where perfect, while the central pit is still eleven and one-half feet deep, though broken away at the top.

  47. How the side chambers were entered is not shown; whether there was a door to each or not.

  48. By Merneit these chambers were built separately around it.

  49. Close around it, on its own level, or higher up, there are generally small chambers in rows, in which were buried the domestics of the king.

  50. He enlisted the services of an official, and promenaded the waiting-rooms and platforms, the dreary chambers in which travellers wait for their luggage, to and fro between the barriers that torment the soul of the impatient.

  51. There was no such abomination as gas in the state chambers of Arden Court.

  52. Helene was dead to him, and her mocking ghost haunted the desolate chambers of his heart, filling them with scornful laughter.

  53. Mr. Chambers says that the Auld Brig is reported to have been built in the reign of Alexander III.

  54. Here Humphries breathed his last, the Muses' friend, And Chambers found his mighty labors end.

  55. There learned Chambers treasured lore for man, And Newbery there his A B C for babes.

  56. Ottmar had scarcely reached home when Ottilie's groom of the chambers brought him a sealed envelope.

  57. The groom of the chambers conducted her through a long succession of rooms.

  58. Did he again dream of intruding into any of the chambers of that mansion, with the ghastly aspect of that terrible creation with which, in the minds of its inhabitants, he seemed to be but too closely identified?

  59. Flora, "it shall be so; its very chambers now are hideous with the recollection of scenes enacted in them.

  60. A rush was made into the hall and in a very few minutes its chambers were ransacked, and all its hidden places carefully searched, with the hope of discovering the hidden form of Sir Francis Varney.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chambers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    branch; cabinet; chambers; chancellery; closet; consulate; den; embassy; flat; headquarters; legation; office; penthouse; quarter; rental; room; shop; study; suite; tenement