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Example sentences for "her dressing"

  • She had found the carpet in her dressing-room disarranged, and had inquired into the mystery of the secret passage.

  • In the wild chaos of her brain, every one of these thoughts had held its place, and in her short slumber on the sofa in her dressing-room she had dreamed all these things and a hundred other things, all bearing upon the same subject.

  • Countess of Hurstmonceux, as, hastily wrapped in her dressing-gown, she hurried into the chamber and up to Claudia's bedside.

  • She sat by the window of her dressing room, looking out upon the boundless sea from which the sun was rising, and over which a solitary sail was passing.

  • I have been waiting for you so long and so impatiently," she said, as she placed him a chair at her dressing-room fireside.

  • Too impatient to wait for the tardy attendance of her servants, Claudia thrust her feet into slippers, drew on her dressing-gown, and went and opened the window-shutters to let in the morning light.

  • And then she began to walk up and down the room to exhaust her excitement before going upstairs to her dressing room, where she supposed that Katie was awaiting her.

  • Sir Philip never refused his wife anything; so he said, yes: and Laura ran away to her dressing-room like a school-girl who has been pleading for a holiday and has won her cause.

  • The damp fog, the slow, drizzling rain shut out the fair landscape upon which the banker's daughter had been wont to look from the pleasant cushioned seat in the deep bay-window of her dressing-room.

  • Laura rushed to fetch water and aromatic vinegar from her dressing-room: and in five minutes Mr. Dunbar opened his eyes, and looked about him with a wild half-terrified expression in his face.

  • Esther took the paper without the slightest excitement, folded it up, and put it in her dressing-table drawer.

  • In her dressing-room you met Mr. Mackwayte and his daughter.

  • She went over to Mrs. Appleby's in her dressing-gown, in a taxi.

  • Maggie got out of bed, put on her dressing-gown and slippers and followed the servant.

  • Since when has a half-measure been useful?

  • So Hedwig intended to be remote, and Nikky meant to be firm and very, very loyal.

  • At the top of the private staircase reserved for the royal family a guard commonly stood.

  • He pretended that it was a boat, and was going down to Karnia, filled with soldiers ready to fight.

  • The gold clock on her dressing-table, a gift from the Archduchess, marked them with flying hands.

  • The papers in order, she went to a panel in the wall of her dressing-room; and, sliding it aside, revealed the safe in which her jewels were kept.

  • He, of course, was not aware that she had been nibbling biscuits and chocolate while he had been smoking, and had had recourse even to the comfort of a sherry-flask which she carried in her dressing-bag.

  • Thunderstruck at this intelligence, I hastened to her dressing-room; when I opened the door, I saw she was having her hair dressed.

  • Mr. Pepys had but just left me, when Mrs. Thrale sent Susan with a particular request to see me in her dressing- room, where I found her with a milliner.

  • On the fourth Sunday morning Sophia put on her dressing-gown and those list slippers very early, and paid a visit to Constance's bedroom.

  • She controlled herself while she read it, lying in her dressing- gown against several pillows on the bed; a mist did not form in her eyes, nor did she sob, nor betray physically that she was not reading an order for two rooms for a week.

  • Creeping out of the room, Constance climbed to the second floor in her dressing-gown, and entered the other chamber.

  • She held out her hands to him, and the broad sleeves of her dressing-gown fell away from her white rounded arms.

  • She fastened the girdle of her dressing-gown, and dismissed her maid.

  • She found her aunt in her dressing-room, preparing for dinner.

  • When Madame Montoni retired to her dressing-room, Emily endeavoured to amuse herself by a view of the castle.

  • Any actress who earns more than a hundred a week is supposed to have a maid in her dressing room.

  • Harrietta Fuller liked to know that at such and such an hour she would be in her dressing room; at such and such an hour on the stage; precisely at another hour she would again be in her dressing room preparing to go home.

  • Holding the candle above her head, she looked in the mirror on her dressing-table, and laughed nervously at the shocked look in her eyes, at the hand pressed upon the bosom whose agitations troubled the delicate linen at her breast.

  • Fleda rose from her bed, and was about to put on her dressing-gown, when she was startled by a voice loudly whispering her name at her window, as it seemed.

  • Her dressing-room door had been left ajar during that memorable fourth act which was to see the consummation of my labours.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her again; her and; her body; her death; her ear; her hand; her head; her left; her long; her manner; her master; her mouth; her nature; her own; her part; her place; her position; her present; her self; her sex; here give; hereby declared; hereditary disease; hereditary syphilis; hereinafter provided; hereunto affixed