Many, who for months had absented themselves from the society, came this afternoon with the expectation of gaining a look at the costly marble and rosewood furniture with which Mrs. Campbell's parlors were said to be adorned.
For all the Josephinas who met his gaze, rising from the shadow of the walls, as he turned on the electric lights in the parlors and hallways, he had the same smile and greeting.
The charm of those parlors of John's may be chemically analyzed," I said.
The custom in some families, of adopting for the daily meals one of the two parlors which a city-house furnishes, has often seemed to me a particularly happy one.
The opium parlors of Hi Wong King had recently been raided.
The parlors were also adorned with cut flowers and hot-house plants.
The parlors of some of these dames were exquisitely furnished with works of art and bric-a-brac, donated by admirers.
The doors connecting the parlors and those leading into the hall had been removed, and in their places were curtains of gray damask, bordered with cardinal red.
The parlors were decorated with the Minister's own furniture and paintings, and with a profusion of rare plants and flowers.
The Green, the Red, and the Blue Parlors were similarly decorated, the flowers used being chiefly azalias, hyacinths, and roses.
The parlors and the East Room were profusely decorated with flowers, and in the dining-room were palm trees and other exotics massed in the corners, while the mantels were banked with cut flowers.
In spite of her taking it as a matter of course, she spent the whole day, after she had learned my news, in spreading it about the porch and parlors of the hotel.
If you loaf and play cards and hang about the billiard parlors all day long, you won't make a friend worth having, you won't gain anything worth remembering.
We found one of the parlors transformed to a perfect bower of floral decorations.
In the double parlors guests were gathering with the laughter and kissing that marked any coming together of these hard-working folk.
She entered the parlors with her usual genial smile a few minutes later, and the flow of conversation that never failed her.
All the shutters in the front part of the house were closed and not a ray of light was to be seen in the parlors as he entered the hall, where the gas was burning dimly.
He thought, with a painful longing, of the cool, stately, and peaceful parlors in the houses of the town, with furniture neatly dusted by tidy maids.
The empty, darkened parlors of the stately houses looked cool and alluringly tranquil.
The parlors were nearly deserted, and few chairs were occupied on the piazzas, but the ghosts of another generation seemed to linger, especially in the offices and barroom.
In the hotel parlors there is music in the evenings, but little dancing except by children.
The first confused impression was of a bewildering number of slim, pretty girls, nonchalant young fellows in lawn-tennis suits, and indefinite opportunities in the halls and parlors and wide piazzas for promenade and flirtations.
This society grew rapidly and within a month the parlors were found inadequate to the constantly increasing numbers.
This association like its predecessor, the first Woman Suffrage Society, was organized and held its meetings in private parlors for a time, but it soon required more room.
The evening after the convention a reception was given to the members and friends of the National Association in the spacious parlors of Mrs. John C.
As a result, on the evening of February 15, there were gathered in the spacious parlors of Dr.
Groups gathered in parlors and discussed the matter, and everything seemed auspicious.
In the evening the parlors were crowded, and I was asked to give an account of the suffrage movement in America.
They have been found working in the shoe-shining parlors seven days a week from 7 A.
In her plans she had the valuable backing of Mrs. Spofford, who made it possible for her to remain in Washington every winter, gave the use of the Riggs House parlors for meetings and aided in many other ways.
Saturday afternoon they enjoyed a charming reception in the parlorsof the women's clubhouse.
Thence we went to the women's suffrage parlors and met some fifty or sixty, and then to the Albemarle Club of both ladies and gentlemen, the only one of the kind in London.
On November 12 Mrs. Stanton's seventieth birthday was celebrated by a large reception held in the parlors of Dr.
The parlors became public offices; the guest chamber was transformed into a mailing department; Miss Anthony's study was an office by day and a bedroom by night; and even the dining-room and kitchen were invaded.
The audience filled every inch of space in the Unitarian church, the most prominent ladies of Oakland occupied seats on the platform, and a large reception in the parlors followed the speaking.
It had long been Miss Anthony's earnest desire to have suffrage headquarters in Washington, pleasant parlors where local meetings could be held and friends gather in a social way.
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Hooker had headquarters in the parlorsof Mrs. Celia Whipple Wallace, at the Sherman House, Chicago, during the Republican convention in June.
During the convention the district suffrage society gave a reception in the parlors of the Wimodaughsis club house.
Monday evening of each week was set apart to receive callers and the pleasant parlors often were crowded, many of the Rochester people declaring that this was their first chance of getting acquainted with their illustrious townswoman.
I speak for myself and Mrs. Mann firstly, though judging from the number of parlors I go into where your picture is the first thing one sees, I fancy there are a good many others who would be hardly less glad than we to greet you.
On Monday Mrs. Avery gave a reception for her in the parlors of the New Century Club, and on the following day she addressed the 1,600 girls of the Normal School.
We dressed the long parlors in evergreens, made canopies of flags, arranged wax-lights in impromptu wooden sconces, and with the waxed floor it was tempting enough to those who cared for dancing.
There were parlors on one side, whose huge folding doors were flung open, and made our few articles of furniture look lonely and meagre.
Our parlors have the blackest of grates, beyond which no visitor comes, and through which we talk to our friends.
He found the two handsome parlors quite full, and stood for a few minutes at the door observing the scene before him.
There are all sorts ofparlors and reception rooms, furnished with the same correct taste.
From one of these sheltered apartments in a railroad car, he can pass to preëngaged parlors and chambers in the hotel, with his own separate table, and all his domestic manners and peculiarities unbroken.
After exploring the caverns we came up into the parlors again, and Miss S.
The victim begins to shrink spiritually; he develops a fancy forparlors with a regulated temperature, and takes his morality on the principle of thin shoes and tepid milk.
These are a lovely department of the streets--they are the little parlors of the streets.
My parlors shall be haunted only by men of ability and character.
The parlorswere to be cleared as soon as possible for dancing.
But one evening his cheek paled and his heart fluttered as he saw her entering the parlors of a lady by whom he had been invited to meet a few friends.
The large parlors were filled with chairs, which were soon occupied, and it was evident that in point of attraction elegant toilets would vie with the music.
She was listlessly walking up and down the elegant parlors as these thoughts ran through her mind.
All were gathered in the parlors at last, merry and refreshed, and as Mrs. St. Clair protested they were dreadfully hungry after their long cold ride.
Social life now has no horrors for his sensitive nature, and he mingled freely with the refined and intelligent who frequented the parlors of the honored colonel and his lovely family.
Sunday evening the officers of the association were "at home" to delegates, speakers and friends in the parlors of the Hotel Seelbach.
The big reception hall and the parlors were filled with visitors from all parts of the country.
Why should we breathe them only in the prayer meeting or in the parlors of our friends?
In the evening the officers of the association received the delegates, speakers and members of the convention in the parlors of the Arlington.
We are to have an election very soon and when I left home to come to this convention our city party was holding meetings in churches and halls and parlors and the chairman of the committee chided me for deserting my 'home work.
Here they were beautifully housed, first in the parlors of an old mansion and later on the ground floor of the county court house where formerly was the public library.
It contains a well-equipped gymnasium, a lunch room and four parlors for the social life of the students and the use of the Alumnæ Association.
Indeed, the right of entrance to some of these pleasant home parlors is a great boon to the unmarried men of our cities.
A hostess receiving in her own parlors is at liberty, if she should wish, to extend her hand to all comers.
The rooms were not finished, and she took one of the parlors for an adjunct to the laundry to dry the wash in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parlors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
