Dirty boots in the best parlor was my first offense, and it raised hell in our house for nigh on a whole day.
They entered alone and turned into a parlor that was dark, except for the reflection from the hall.
When the range, warming to its work, had made her kitchen-parlor a little too hot to hold us, she hospitably suggested the river shore as cooler, where she knew a comfortable log we could sit on.
It was mere knitting in the parlor compared to how I felt after standing at that table in that candy factory from 8 A.
For supper that night I sat at a table with a housekeeper, a parlor maid, and a seamstress, and listened to much talk.
A certain type of labor agitator, or a “parlor laborite,” prefer to see only the gloomy side of the worker's life.
The housekeeper and parlor maid together painted a picture which would lead one to conclude that the happiest women in all New York City were the housekeepers in men's clubs.
The parlor Bolshevik pictures all labor eager and anxious and capable of actually controlling industry.
Jim, and he condescended to enter the parlor and plant himself in front of Nannie.
Dora was hard at work sweeping out the parlor of the Stanhope cottage when she saw from the window a boy walking up the garden path.
Several days slipped by and the boys were deep in their studies, when, late one afternoon, Dick was greatly astonished by being told that Mrs. Stanhope was in the parlor waiting to see him.
The small parlor was full of soldiers, who were eating and drinking as none but Prussians can eat and drink; almost putting it into their noses.
In the parlor were seated a dozen Bavarians, quarrelling with as many Prussians seated round the deal tables.
In the large parlor were the officers, who had just returned in succession from their reconnaissances; as they went up into the room, you could hear the clanking of their swords and their huge boots making the staircase shake.
I came down, and saw Michel standing in our parlor with his letter-bag under his arm.
We shall have a very good large parlor and bedroom, together, in this house, and steer off in fine style right into the bowels of the winter.
I write in my new parlor whither I moved yesterday.
Suddenly, the parlor door was thrown open and a maid-servant came into the room.
On this same day, July the third, 1776, Caesar Rodney was chatting with Mistress Rowland in the parlor of her house at Lewes.
The music of an organ surprised the new-comers, and in the parlor they found Father Atkinson playing sweetly on the little instrument made by himself.
Can't I put it under a glass cover and keep it in the parlor as they do wax flowers and fine works of that sort?
Almost at this moment, Sir Guy Chetwoode is announced, and is shown by the inestimable Kate into the parlor instead of the drawing-room, thereby causing unutterable mischief.
This was in theparlor of her old house, which she now determined to use as an office or business-room.
It's perfectly ridiculous that I can't have a fire in my own parlor when I am able to have a chimney as high and as big as Bunker Hill Monument if I wanted it!
At this moment Willy Croup knocked at the parlor door, and when Mrs. Cliff went to her, she asked if the gentleman was going to stay to dinner.
When Mrs. Cliff entered the parlorof Miss Cushing, five women each gave a sudden start.
If you could persuade Miss Eleanor to come and sit in your parlor when you are having company to see you, it would set you up in Plainton a good deal higher than any money can set you up.
She had been impressed by his appearance when she had seen him grandly careering in his barouche or his sleigh, and she was still more impressed as she saw him in her parlor with additional furs.
Mr. Opp passed into the parlorand hung his hat on the corner of a large, unframed canvas that stood on the floor with its face to the wall.
The parlor was cool and dark, and Mr. Opp felt around for a chair while the refractory shutter was being opened.
Unfortunately we are having a temporary difficulty with the parlor heating apparatus.
Paul took a parlor and chamber for himself and lady.
Then you go into the parlor und dake a seat on the mantel piece, und you ax her vos her fader sick, vhether her mother had the group yet, how long before her brudder vould come off the island, und so forth.
A slender girl, just above the medium height, stood a moment at the parlor door, and then withdrew.
I had the presence of mind and decision to say, and I moved from the parlor into the passage.
Keralio stood grimly in the shadow of the parlor doorway, revolver in hand, while Helen cowered in the inner room, in momentary expectation of a tragedy.
The maid had forgotten to switch on the electrolier and as the only light came from the distant dining-room, the big parlor was practically all in gloom.
In the front parlor the folding doors were closed, and the angel of death kept guard over his quiet victim.
And Mr. Foster, with a wondering look for Ralph and a troubled one for Ester, moved slowly toward that end of the long parlorwhere the voices were growing louder, and one of them excited.
Douglass sometimes appeared at meal time and sometimes not, but the parlor and the piazza were quite deserted, and even his own room saw little of him.
The doorkeeper went into the parlor to speak with the King.
The lad then seized him by the collar and flung him against the wall so that it creaked; and then he walked straight in to the King, who sat in his parlor with his seven professors about him.
We went thus, without another word exchanged, to his rooms, and entered the little parlor hung with the trophies of his career, which I looked at with some curiosity.
Clara sat helplessly in the middle of the parlor rug and I glowered from the fireplace.
He opened the parlor door and passed out into the private hall, so he could open the door leading into the public corridor.
This door opened into a little parlor which separated Madame de Bergenheim's private sitting-room from her sleeping-apartment.
A half dozen solemn personages with gold-braided hats and long red robes bordered with ermine, and wearing starched ruffles, occupied one corner of the parlor near the windows.
Three or four others had taken possession of the billiard-table; while the more venerable among the guests had remained in the parlor with Mademoiselle de Corandeuil.
She then returned to the parlor and fell upon the divan, completely exhausted by her expedition.
The lamp from the parlor threw a feeble light upon the upper steps of the staircase, but the lower ones were in complete darkness.
