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Example sentences for "own room"

  • At last, when ascending to my own room, I succeeded in handing Polina her winnings, and told her that, next time, I should not play for her.

  • I returned to my own room with my head in a whirl.

  • All these thoughts passed through my mind during the few moments that, having left the old lady's rooms, I was ascending to my own room on the top storey.

  • Ascending to my own room, and opening the door, I perceived in the semi-darkness a figure seated on a chair in the corner by the window.

  • I tried to withdraw my hand, in order to escape with my tear-stained face to my own room, quite forgetting the parcel I had come down the stairway for.

  • He bowed, and I gladly escaped to my own room, feeling more startled than pleased at my first interview with Mr. Winthrop.

  • I met with no further adventure, and reached my own room in safety, fondly hoping no one in the house was aware of my evening's ramble, and one that I determined should never be repeated.

  • I am afraid I should have shut myself up in my own room, and refused to mingle with the crowd, under these circumstances.

  • I went back to my own room for a little while, and then I knocked at her door; but there was no answer.

  • Let me go back for a little while,' I pleaded; for I knew if he ordered me into my own room I should be obliged to obey him.

  • I made Gladys take possession of her favourite little couch in the drawing-room, but she detained me for some time talking about Max, until I refused to hear another word, and then I went up to my own room, and put on my hat.

  • I promised discretion, arid hastened to my own room, with the precious bundle of Lucy's letters.

  • In the privacy of my own room, I wept like a child over the wreck of the being I had left so beautiful and perfect, though even then the canker of doubt had begun to take root.

  • Rupert and Grace cheerfully acquiesced, and the three soon left the place, Lucy preparing to follow, as soon as a maid could bring her hat, and I excusing myself on the score of business in my own room.

  • You can stay here if you like--as to me, I am going to my own room.

  • Let me assure you once more that I am as absolutely safe here as if I were in my own room.

  • I think I had better go back to my own room, and wait developments.

  • With that she went out of the salon, and I tried to go to my own room, but I could not stir.

  • I had trembled when I thought of these solemn and sonorous words in the solitude of my own room, but now that they were spoken before the congregation I had no fear, no misgiving, nothing but a sense of rapture and consecration.

  • Half an hour afterwards I was in my own room at home, and given over to the dressmakers.

  • As my living in future would be at the charge of the Turnours, I might afford myself a few indulgences to begin with, she argued; and deciding that she was right, I made up my mind to have my remaining meals served in my own room.

  • Perhaps I'd better have dinner in my own room, so as to guard it more carefully?

  • I lingered over the task of putting my mistress's belongings in order, almost with pleasure, and then, once in my own room, I took as long as I could with my own toilet.

  • One sultry evening in August, I retired early to my own room, as I was suffering from a severe head-ache.

  • I had been accustomed, since my residence in the family, to spend my evening mostly with them in the parlor; but on that evening I remained in my own room, feeling that I should be an intruder upon that family reunion.

  • When Mrs. Leighton had dismissed the children from the room, she turned to me, remarking that probably I would like to retire for a time to my own room, she called one of the servants and requested her to show me to my apartment.

  • When I retired to my own room I kneeled and thanked my Heavenly Father for directing me to a home where I had a prospect of being useful and happy.

  • Ten minutes' quiet in my own room (assisted by a little dose of eau-de-cologne and water) restored me to myself.

  • I got away from him as soon as I could, and came back to my diary and my own room.

  • I made her no reply and went off to my own room.

  • My own room is the second on the left, so that if you should feel that you are in need of company a call would always bring me to your side.

  • After that I gave the excuse of a course of study, and spent my spare hours alone in my own room.

  • I let myself in with my latch-key, and was about to enter my own room when my attention was arrested by a short, sharp cry like that of a man in pain.

  • I went in a state of some doubt toward my own room.

  • Instead of that, I stood still and looked up and down the halls, endeavoring to get some idea of their plan and of the location of my own room in reference to the rest.

  • We ransacked the house, yet after all was over and I sat down to rest in my own room, two formidable questions rose in my mind for which I found no satisfactory answer.

  • I heard the enemy swearing volubly as he blundered along the passage, thinking I was still before him; and I now prepared to grope my way back in the dark to my own room.

  • I was glad to get to the solitude of my own room, when it was time to dress for dinner, that I might have the luxury, if it was only for five minutes, of thinking undisturbed.

  • I saw them creep closer together as though for comfort, as I got up and went away to my own room.

  • Will nothin' contint ye but the master's own room?

  • When I had reached my own room I locked the door lest by any chance I should be disturbed; although that did not seem likely.

  • On returning again to my own room I glanced hurriedly at my watch.

  • I retired to my own room, partially undressed, and again threw myself upon the bed.

  • The light from my own room, and the gray signs of dawn without enabled me to see that it was empty.

  • I always breakfast upstairs in my own room.

  • What was now known as "Mr. Pavely's own room" had been the dining-room of his grandparents.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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